Not all industrial sectors are reducing their robot orders. The consumer packaged goods industry, for example, has significantly expanded its orders. But recent declines indicate how multiple factors—from political uncertainty and overbuying to poor implementation plans—can have an impact on automation technology adoption.
From basic bin picking and placing to welding, soldering and assembly line operations, manufactures are finding collaborative robots suitable for more applications.
As Universal Robots’ partner ecosystem expands to more 500 products, this growth showcases how plug-and-play is helping to drive robotic applications and ease robot adoption across...
Manufacturers can now integrate lightweight design principles into gripper fabrication processes using additive manufacturing to create grippers that are both sustainable in their...
Operating over messaging platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Slack, InOrbit’s RobOps Copilot allows users to get detailed explanations of robot issues to arrive at key optimization...
Two new electrical grippers for heavy-duty, collaborative robot applications were announced at Automate 2024 in addition to the new AutoPilot machine tending software for D:Ploy...
The IRB 7710 and IRB 7720 are large robots designed for use in automotive manufacturing as well as in the electronics and construction/earthmoving industries.
Built for demanding production environments, the compact ArcWorld 50 series workcells from Yaskawa Motoman are affordable, wire-to-weld solutions that are pre-assembled on a common...
The IntelliFlex Feeding System from Epson Robots accommodates a wide variety of parts for advanced applications in medical, consumer, automotive, electronics and more.
The new T702 from ABB is a tug-style autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that uses Visual SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) navigation to create a 360-degree point cloud ...