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Automate (trade show)

Automate is an annual trade show for robotics and automation, held in the United States by the Association for Advancing Automation and billed as North America's largest.

Automated Ball-Strike System

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is baseball's camera-based pitch-calling technology, approved by MLB in 2025 for use in all 2026 games as a challenge system.

Automated breast ultrasound

Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is an imaging method that acquires 3D ultrasound of the whole breast, approved as an adjunct to mammography for screening women with dense breast tissue.

Automated canal control

Automated canal control is the regulation of gates and pumps in irrigation canals by control algorithms and instrumentation, keeping water levels near target values as demands change.

Automated case picking is the use of machinery, rather than human order selectors, to retrieve full cases of product and build store-specific pallets, most commonly in grocery and retail distribution centers.

Automated cell counting

Automated cell counting is a bench biology technique that uses image analysis or impedance instruments to measure cell concentration and viability, replacing manual microscopy with a hemocytometer.

Automated clearing house

An automated clearing house (ACH) is a batch electronic payment system in which banks exchange netted credit and debit entries, first built in the United States in the 1960s.

Automated disassembly

Automated disassembly is the use of robotics and artificial intelligence to take end-of-life products apart so components and materials can be reused, remanufactured, or recycled.

Automated drilling

Automated drilling is the use of control systems, software, and downhole tools to drill oil and gas wells with reduced manual intervention, spanning guidance, driller-approved decisions, and autonomy.

Automated ECG interpretation

Automated ECG interpretation: computer and AI analysis of electrocardiograms, begun around 1957-1960 by Pipberger and Caceres, commercialized in the 1970s, now spanning deep learning models with FDA clearance, all requiring physician overreading.

Automated external defibrillator

Automated external defibrillator (AED): portable computerized device that analyzes cardiac arrest rhythms and shocks ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia; public-access and professional-use, semi- or fully automated, FDA premarket-approved.

Automated fiber placement

Automated fiber placement (AFP) is a composite manufacturing process where a machine lays narrow prepreg fiber tows under heat and pressure, used for aircraft fuselage panels, wing skins, and rocket tanks.

Automated guided vehicle

An automated guided vehicle, also called an autonomous guided vehicle, is a driverless industrial truck that moves material along fixed guidance systems such as wires or laser reflectors.

Automated manual transmission

An automated manual transmission (AMT), also called an automated manual gearbox, is a manual gearbox whose clutch operation and shift timing are performed by an electronically controlled system, widely used in heavy trucks.

Automated Maritime Telecommunications System

The Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS) is a United States FCC radio service in the 216 to 220 MHz band providing automated ship-to-shore telephone and data communications for commercial vessels on inland waterways.

Automated microscopy

Automated microscopy is a laboratory method in which robotic microscopes acquire images of cells without an operator, converting them into quantitative data for high-content screening.

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Automated nanomole-scale reaction screening

Automated nanomole-scale reaction screening is a high-throughput experimentation technique in which robots run thousands of chemical reactions in parallel at nanomole scale, analyzing products by rapid mass spectrometry.

Automated optical inspection

Automated optical inspection (AOI) is a machine-vision method that uses cameras and image analysis to inspect printed circuit board assemblies for defects such as missing components and solder faults.

Automated progress monitoring

Automated progress monitoring is the use of sensing technologies, computer vision, and BIM to measure how much of a construction project is built, comparing the as-built state against the planned schedule.

Automated red-teaming

Automated red-teaming is an AI safety method in which an attacker model generates adversarial prompts against a target model at scale, used to evaluate and train it.

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Automated small-molecule synthesis

Automated small-molecule synthesis is the execution of multistep organic synthesis by a synthesizer or robot, most developed through Burke's MIDA boronate building blocks linked by automated Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.

Automated teller machine

An automated teller machine (ATM) is an unattended computerized banking terminal that lets cardholders withdraw cash, check balances, and make deposits with a card and PIN.

Automated Transfer Vehicle

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) was a European Space Agency uncrewed cargo spacecraft that resupplied the International Space Station on five automated flights between 2008 and 2014.

Automatic alarm receiver

An automatic alarm receiver, or auto alarm, was a ship's radio receiver that monitored the 500 kHz distress frequency and sounded bells when it detected the coded alarm signal.

Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast

Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) is an aircraft surveillance technology in which aircraft broadcast their GPS-derived position, altitude, and speed once per second to ground stations and nearby aircraft.

Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Contract

Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Contract (ADS-C) is an aircraft surveillance technique in which aircraft automatically transmit position data to air traffic units, used mainly where radar coverage does not exist.

Automatic depressurization system

The automatic depressurization system (ADS) is a boiling water reactor emergency core cooling system that vents steam through relief valves, lowering pressure so low-pressure cooling can inject.

Automatic differentiation

Automatic differentiation, also called algorithmic differentiation or autodiff, computes derivatives of functions expressed as computer programs via the chain rule; its reverse mode underlies backpropagation in machine learning.

Automatic domain randomization

Automatic domain randomization (ADR) is a sim-to-real transfer algorithm, introduced by OpenAI in 2019, that gradually widens randomized simulation parameters as a robot policy improves.