We’re pleased to announce our support of KORA: Kentucky Organization of Robotics and Automation. KORA is a University of Kentucky student organization dedicated to hands-on projects involving custom automation and robotics. After becoming acquainted with their student leadership team, Kinemetrix is providing access to precision machining resources, materials, available internships, and training on industrial robotics. To keep our technology toolkit sharp, and risk for our…

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Making Things Because you’re reading this, you already know that making things is uniquely satisfying.  When we create useful objects, the sense of accomplishment is deeply hardwired.

You’ve been bombarded with provocative news headlines for months. Here’s a little break. Kinemetrix has been privileged to support youth sports in the Lexington, Kentucky area over the years. Recently, at a nail-biting end of season little league game, in the silence between windup and pitch, something became very clear. On the baseball field, there was more economic, religious, and ethnic diversity than nearly any…

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2019 was a year of unprecedented activity, innovation, and growth. The automotive industry is reinventing itself toward electrification, driving the adoption of new materials, processes, and design architectures. For the customers we serve, the current landscape is creating abundant opportunity, and risk.  Fortunately, scaling novel, prototype-scale processes into robust manufacturing systems is at the core of what we do. 

The Kinemetrix team of future-engineers wrapped up their high school senior year internship in impressive form.  Kelly Kral, Nathan Rukavina and Chris Duncan of Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School used their skills and the resources at Kinemetrix to develop a Proprioceptive Industrial Robot Gripper. Their work became the basis of their science fair submission; a submission a lot more impressive than the typical baking soda…

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