omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Andy Flessas. Andy Flessas (aka andyRobot) is an American robotics designer and computer animator, and proprietor of the company andyRobot. He invented RoboScreen, a robotically controlled video display, and is the author of RobotAnimator software.

Early life and education

Flessas started studying robotics in the mid-1990's.  He trained at ABB's robotic training school.  He also trained at KUKA training institute.  He has a BA degree in Film Animation from Columbia College Chicago 1991.

Flessas designs advanced robotics motion planning software systems and proprietary hardware for ABB, KUKA, and YASKAWA robots.

Career

Flessas started Casino Arts corporation in 2002 and renamed it to andyRobot in Jan. of 2019. Flessas developed RoboScreen, which was awarded a United States Patent in 2009.  The RoboScreen, developed with ABB Robotics, was first used by Bon Jovi in 2009.  It was used at Ultra Music Festival in Miami in 2013.  It was used by Japanese pop stars Kis-My-Ft2 in 2013.

andyRobot created a robotic piano system for Lady Gaga in 2016.  NIKE commissioned andyRobot to create an advanced robotics system in NYC for the 2016 NIKE Innovation Summit.

Flessas also is the creator of RobotAnimator, a plug-in for Autodesk Maya which enables computer animators to generate robotic choreography using the software.  Andy also received a United States patent for a collection of Robotic Entertainment Elements primarily a robotic staircase, and robotic video projectors.  He also has a patent in South Korea for RoboScreen.

In 2014 WIRED magazine referred to him as "The Robot Whisperer".

In 2015 NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) licensed andyRobot's Robot Animator robotics software for use on the NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission.

In 2017 VERIZON featured andyRobot robotic systems in its television commercial regarding remote robotic surgery using 5G networks.

andyRobot created the first large format entertainment robotics system on a deep ocean vessel "Quantum of the Seas" in 2014, "Anthem of the Seas" in 2015, and "Ovation of the Seas" in 2016 for Royal Caribbean International. andyRobot licensed his proprietary robotics technologies to international pop music producer Deadmau5.

In 2019 APPLE featured andyRobot robotic systems in its "Introducing iPhone 11 Pro" launch commercial.

In 2019 MTV used andyRobot patented RoboScreen robotic video displays on its MTV Video Music Awards 2019.

In 2019 andyRobot collaborated with Bloomingdale's in New York City to create holiday themed window displays featuring robots placing ornaments on holiday trees, a robot band, and an interactive karaoke attraction.

References

External links 
 http://www.abb.us/cawp/seitp202/00003c1a485b0d4b85257b1d005a40bd.aspx
 Reuters
 http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/267c7fac23827b0fc125783e0046f69e.aspx
 Wall Street Journal video interview

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cremalleras Rubi. Rubi Industria de Cremalleras is one of the oldest companies engaged in the manufacture of zippers.

History

Cremalleras Rubi was founded in 1926 in the town of Rubí, Barcelona, which still maintains its headquarters and single plant. 

In the 1930s, the British company Imperial Metallurgic Industries (IMI) bought the company and, having no experience in the market of the zippers, partnered with one of the European leaders in the industry, the German manufacturer Opti.

The company remained in front of the European market until the late seventies. The Spanish subsidiary defaulted in 1981 and, four years later, bought their 256 employees making it a labor corporation (SAL). The company, which in 1996 regained name Rubi Industria de Cremalleras, is already a conventional corporation, but “in spirit” remains in the hands of its workers.

References

External links
 "01/2013-Cremalleras Rubí, una histórica que sigue abrochando..." —  Moda.es
 "01/2004-Cremalleras Rubí se abre al exterior." —  Diario de Córdoba
 "Rubí Star, la nueva estrella de Cremalleras Rubí." —  Técnica del Calzado
 "Cremalleras Rubí lanza un nuevo concepto de producto." —  Mercería Actualidad

Manufacturing companies based in Barcelona
SM UB-78. SM UB-78 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 20 October 1917 as SM UB-78.
Mined off Dover on 19 April 1918 all 35 crew lost.

Construction

She was built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 2 June 1917. UB-78 was commissioned later that same year under the command of Kptlt. Woldemar Petri. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-78 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-78 would carry a crew of up to 3 officers and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-78 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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External links
 Scott, Graham (2015) ' UB-78 off Folkestone, Kent: Archaeological Report', Wessex Archaeology.
 Historic England project to research First World War submarine wrecks. 

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Roger Druine. Roger Druine (1921–1958) was a French aviator and light aircraft designer. Druine was born in 1921 at Pont-Sainte-Maxence and built his first aircraft at the age of 16. He later went on to design a series of small aircraft for amateur construction. Druine died on 19 March 1958 at age 37.

Aircraft

Druine 1938 Monoplane
Druine Aigle
Druine Turbulent
Druine Turbi
Druine Condor

References

1921 births
1958 deaths
Aircraft designers
French aerospace engineers
French aviators
Aeryon Labs. Aeryon Labs is a Canadian developer and manufacturer of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. Founded in 2007, it is a subsidiary of Denver, Colorado based company FLIR Systems. The company has produced a variety of VTOL quadcopters unmanned aerial vehicles including the Aeryon Scout and the Aeryon SkyRanger series. Their UAV have been deployed in multiple disasters, conflicts around the world as well as being used by police in Canada. Their UAV can be used to photograph crime scenes or assist in missing persons cases. By 2018, the company's UAV had been purchased and put in use by the militaries of 20 countries.

History 
The company was founded in 2007 to research and develop VTOL quadcopters unmanned aerial vehicles in Waterloo, Ontario. The company has since expanded to two offices in Waterloo. In 2018, they formed the subsidiary Aeryon Defense USA based in Denver, Colorado to focus on sales to the US Government. Aeryon Labs was subsequently purchased by FLIR Systems in January 2019 for US$200 million.

Products

In 2011 the company provided a Scout UAV to the Free Libyan Air Force. In 2014, they were used in the Philippines after Typhoon Hagupit. In 2016, they were used for relief efforts during the Fort McMurray wildfire in 2016 to survey damage. That same year they were sent to Ecuador to survey damage from a 7.8 earthquake. In 2018, the SkyRanger drone provided support for disaster response following Hurricane Irma. In 2024, the Canadian Federal government announced it is donating 800 Aeryon SkyRanger R70 to Ukraine and they will be delivered by Spring 2024.

Their UAV are also used by police services in Canada including the Thunder Bay police and the Windsor Police Service. Waterloo Regional Police services in 2018 announced they were using one as well and the unit cost $85,172.11. Waterloo police also use them to photograph car crashes, and to help in the search for missing persons. 

They are also used to inspect power lines as an alternative to helicopters.

Aeryon Scout 
Aeryon Scout is a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed between 2007 and 2009 and produced from 2009-2015.

SkyRanger 
Aeryon SkyRanger R60 is a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed between 2011–2013. Ontario Provincial Police use the system for traffic accident reconstruction and locating missing persons.

The Aeryon Skyranger R70 is an unarmed aircraft that was launched in 2013, it has been reported to gather intelligence information from more than 30 countries. 

R80D SkyRaider was unveiled in 2018 in a trade show in Colorado.

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Aircraft manufacturers of Canada
Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies
Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers
2007 establishments in Ontario
Canadian brands
Manufacturing companies established in 2007
Canadian companies established in 2007
Companies based in Waterloo, Ontario
2019 mergers and acquisitions
SM UB-88. SM UB-88 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 26 January 1918 as SM UB-88.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 11 December 1917. UB-88 was commissioned early the next year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Johannes Ries. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-88 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-88 would carry a crew of up to 3 officers and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-88 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

Service history

UB-88 was surrendered to the United States on 26 November 1918 in accordance with the requirements of the Armistice with Germany.  She was refurbished and did an exhibition tour in 1919 from New York, down the East Coast, and up the Mississippi River before passing through the Panama Canal and touring the West Coast as far north as Seattle, Washington.

After having all useful parts and salvage stripped from her, she was sunk as a target on 3 January 1921 in waters off Los Angeles County, California.  The propellers were saved and placed on display in the city of San Pedro but were stolen in 1923 by metal thieves and were never recovered.

The wreck of the vessel was found in July 2003 using publicly available sonar data from the Pacific Seafloor Mapping project.  She sits upright approximately  south of the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles at a depth of .  The outer hull has corroded revealing the inner pressure hull.  Divers have entered the wreck and found the interior to be almost completely bare.  As she was given a special commission to the United States Navy, she is protected by the Sunken Military Craft Act.

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External links 
 DANFS service history from Naval History and Heritage Command website.
 Personal account of Charles Daniel Turner, United States Navy sailor who served aboard UB-88 following surrender, Charles Daniel Turner Collection (AFC/2001/001/27862), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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SM UB-91. SM UB-91 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 11 April 1918 as SM UB-91.

On 4 October 1918 UB-91 sank the , killing among others, Yokohama Specie Bank sub-manager S. Ujie, his wife and three sons, together with bank employee Takashi Aoki and wife Sueko.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 6 March 1918. UB-91 was commissioned later the same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-91 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-91 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-91 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

Service history

UB-91 was surrendered to Britain on 21 November 1918 at Harwich. She toured the South Wales ports of Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Port Talbot and was towed to Pembroke Dock, eventually being broken up in Briton Ferry in 1921. King George V  presented her deck gun to the town of Chepstow by in recognition of the bravery of William Charles Williams RN VC at Gallipoli in 1915. The gun forms part of the Chepstow War Memorial.

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Saurer 2 CM. The Saurer 2 CM is a 4x4 truck model established by the Adolph Saurer AG in 1949 with a payload of 2.5 tons. There were 222 build most of them with a loading bridge, while some were made with a fixed structure as a van. The vehicles are right-hand driven. A winch was optional. The Saurer CM2 was also built by Berna and FBW (Franz Brozincevic Wetzikon) under their own names (FBW AX / Berna 2). The Saurer CM 2 formed the basis for other vehicles with more powerful engine and a larger payload capacity like Saurer 4CM 5t, Saurer 4CM driving school cars, Saurer Woodcarrier 4CM, 5CM 6t Saurer trucks and a mobile command center of the flab.
One is on display at the Schweizerisches Militärmuseum Full.

Bibliography 
 Kurt Sahli, Jo Wiedmer: Saurer. Nutzfahrzeuge damals und heute. Buri, Bern 1983, .
 Alber Wüst: Die Schweizerische Fliegerabwehr.  2011, 
 Fahrzeuge der Schweizer Armee by Markus Hofmann (2000)

References 
 Saurer 2 CM 3,5 t
 Saurer 4 CM 5t Fahrschulwagen
 Saurer 4 CM 5 t
 Saurer 4 CM Langholzwagen
 Saurer 5 CM 6 t 4x4 Kipper
 Berna 2 UM Funkwagen
 FBW AX 40 4x4 Einsatzzentrale ESA 83
 FBW AX 35 M. Gelastw. 3,5 t 4x4

Military trucks of Switzerland
Off-road vehicles
Military vehicles of Switzerland
SM UB-92. SM UB-92 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 27 April 1918 as SM UB-92.

UB-92 was surrendered to Britain on 21 November 1918 and broken up in Bo'ness in 1919/20.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 25 March 1918. UB-92 was commissioned later the same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-92 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-92 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-92 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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SM UB-93. SM UB-93 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 15 May 1918 as SM UB-93.

UB-93 was surrendered to Britain on 21 November 1918 and broken up in Rochester in 1922.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 12 April 1918. UB-93 was commissioned later the same year under the command of Oblt.z.S. Karl Thouret. Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-93 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-93 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-93 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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SM UB-95. SM UB-95 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy () during World War I. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 20 June 1918 as SM UB-95.

UB-95 was surrendered to Italy on 21 November 1918 and broken up in La Spezia in August 1919.

Construction

She was built by AG Vulcan of Hamburg and following just under a year of construction, launched at Hamburg on 10 May 1918. UB-95 was commissioned later the same year . Like all Type UB III submarines, UB-95 carried 10 torpedoes and was armed with a  deck gun. UB-95 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-95 had a displacement of  while surfaced and  when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at  when surfaced and  when submerged.

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Enos M. Barton. Enos Melancthon Barton (December 2, 1842 – May 3, 1916) was an American electrical engineer who, with Elisha Gray, co-founded Western Electric Manufacturing Company.

Biography
Born in Lorraine, New York in 1842, Enos M. Barton attended the University of Rochester.  During the U.S. Civil War and prior to 1869, Barton was a telegraph operator.

In 1869, Barton became partners with George Shawk in an electrical engineering business in Cleveland, Ohio.  Later that same year, Shawk sold his share to inventor Elisha Gray and the company was renamed the Gray and Barton Co.  Barton became the secretary of the company.

In 1872, Gray and Barton moved the business to Chicago, Illinois, and manufactured typewriter parts, fire alarms, electric light fixtures, telegraph equipment, and related electrical devices.  One of their best customers was the giant Western Union Telegraph Company.

In 1881, after Western Union became a partner in the Gray and Barton Co, the latter was reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Company that was later licensed under the Bell telephone patents to manufacture telephone equipment for AT&T.
 
In 1887 Barton became president of Western Electric and oversaw the international expansion of the company from its beginning. He retired in 1908.

In 1926 Graybar Electric Company was spun off from Western Electric to handle distribution of Western Electric products.  This new company was named Graybar in memory of Elisha Gray and Enos Barton.

Personal life

Barton married Katherine S. Richardson in 1869, and they had three children. She died in 1898. He remarried to Mary C. Rust on October 6, 1899, and they had three children.

He died in 1916 on his family farm in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

See also
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

References

1842 births
1916 deaths
American electrical engineers
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
Hanriot HD.20. The Hanriot HD.20 was a French single seat shipboard fighter aircraft prototype completed in 1923.  Only one was built.

Design and development
The Hanriot HD.20 was an all-metal two bay biplane, though the inner bay was relatively narrow.  Outward leaning parallel pairs of interplane struts, assisted by wire bracing, divided the bays.  The wings had significant stagger and the lower plane had the greater span; in plan the wings were straight edged, unswept and of constant chord, with  angled tips. Ailerons were fitted only on the upper plane and were short span and overhung, that is, their horn balances projected beyond the wing tips.

The HD.20 had a braced, rectangular tailplane mounted on top of the fuselage and a small, curved edged fin.  The elevators were balanced and the  broad chord  rudder, which met the flat top of the fin almost vertically, reached down to the keel and moved within an elevator cut-out.

The fighter was powered by a Hispano-Suiza 8Fb water-cooled upright V-8 engine.  The pilot's open cockpit was over the trailing edge of the lower wing; both planes had central cut-outs to improve the pilot's view.  A large Busteed inflatable buoyancy airbag between the undercarriage legs was provided for emergency landings on the sea.  The HD.20 had a fixed tailskid undercarriage, with mainwheels on a single axle mounted on the lower fuselage longerons by two pairs of V-struts.

The HD.20 first flew in 1923 and flight testing explored its higher altitude performance, but then tests and development were ended.

Specifications

References

Biplanes
1920s French fighter aircraft
Hanriot HD.20
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
EMPA (disambiguation). EMPA or Empa may refer to:

 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (German: Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt)
 European Master of Public Administration Consortium
 EMPA (drug)
 Electron micro probe analyzer (EMPA)
 Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

Geography
 Empa, Cyprus, a community of Cyprus
Grid balancing. Grid balancing ensures that electricity consumption matches electricity production of an electrical grid at any moment. Electricity is by its nature difficult to store and has to be available on demand, so the supply shall match the demand very closely at any time despite the continuous variations of both. In a deregulated grid, a transmission system operator is responsible for the balancing (in the US electric system smaller entities, so called balancing authorities, are in charge, overseen by reliability coordinators). In a wide area synchronous grid the short-term balancing is coupled with frequency control: as long as the balance is maintained, the frequency stays constant (at the scheduled frequency), whenever a small mismatch between aggregate demand and aggregate supply occurs, it is restored due to both supply and demand being frequency-sensitive: lower frequency increases the supply, and higher frequency increases the demand.

As of the beginning of 2020s, the actual balancing service was provided primarily by the conventional power stations:    frequently, the only quick-response safety margin is the inertial response provided by the kinetic energy of the physically rotating machinery (synchronous generators and turbines). If there is a mismatch between supply and demand the generators absorb extra energy by speeding up or produce more power by slowing down causing the utility frequency (either 50 or 60 hertz) to increase or decrease. However, the frequency cannot deviate too much from the target: many units of the electrical equipment can be destroyed by the out-of-bounds frequency and thus will automatically disconnect from the grid to protect themselves, potentially triggering a blackout. 

Since the 20th century grid balancing has become less predictable with more variable renewable energy being installed into the grid. This has resulted in wind farms being turned off at night time, when wind is high and demand for power is low. In Scotland this has resulted in payouts, most recently over £6m in 33 days has been paid by the grid to wind farms to not generate electricity.

Constraint payments are made to other electricity suppliers as well as wind. In 2011/2012, payments  by the National Grid in the UK totaled £324 million of which £31 million went to wind. In 2012/2013, thanks to improved transmission capability, they were £130 million of which only £7 million were for wind.

This temporary excess of electric energy could alternatively be used in electrolysis of water to make high purity hydrogen fuel used in fuel cells. In areas with little hydroelectricity, pumped storage systems such as the Dinorwig Power Station can allow the energy to be used for operational reserve or at times of peak demand rather than run a natural gas peaking power plant.

See also

 Intermittent energy source

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Electrical grid
Renewable energy