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Automata raises $50M for life sciences automation

February 28, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Automata

The financing will be used to further develop its lab automation platform Automata Labs for use in and outside of the UK.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, Healthcare Robotics, Investments, Laboratory / Cleanroom, News Tagged With: Automata

How a box manufacturer tackled labor issues with robotics

February 18, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Robotiq palletizing application

Box manufacturer Alliora had wanted to add automation to its production lines for a while. Unfortunately, its first experience was difficult.

Filed Under: Case Studies, Cobot Arms, End of Arm Tooling, Grippers, News, Packaging & Palletizing, Vacuum Gripper Tagged With: Robotiq

5 robotics trends to watch in 2022

February 18, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Adoption by new industries, ease of use, and securing production top IFR’s list of robotics trends to watch in 2022.

Filed Under: News

Robotics Summit & Expo opens registration

February 12, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the design, development, manufacture and delivery of commercial-class robotics systems.

Filed Under: News

11 cobots assemble Fiat 500 electric car

February 8, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

On the Fiat 500 electric car production line, some of the assembly processes and quality controls required collaborative robots.

Filed Under: Assembly, Case Studies, News Tagged With: Universal Robots

Yaskawa robots switch between cobot, industrial mode

February 7, 2022 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Meeting safety standards (ISO 13849-1) and complying to ISO TS15066, each robot offers four modes of collaborative operation and can shift between collaborative speed in power force limiting mode or full speed in industrial mode.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, News Tagged With: Yaskawa Motoman

Universal Robots makes record $311M in 2021

February 1, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

On the backs of Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, Teradyne’s robotics group increased revenues 34% in 2021

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, News Tagged With: Teradyne, Universal Robots

Robotics integrator Eckhart acquired by private equity firm

January 19, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

ActiNav

Eckhart offers engineering, design, simulation and integration services, as well as proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems such as AGVs and cobots.

Filed Under: Investments, News Tagged With: Eckhart

Tactile sensing creates advantages for cobots

January 13, 2022 By Claudia Jarrett Leave a Comment

tactile sensing

Tactile sensing technologies allow collaborative robots to feel many classes of objects – hard, soft, rigid, flexible, etc.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, News, Opinion, Sensing, Technologies

Nominations open for RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards 2022

January 12, 2022 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

The RBR50 Awards honor the most creative and influential innovations from around the global robotics industry.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: RBR50

Robotics Summit & Expo call for speakers

January 3, 2022 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

The Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the technical issues involved with the design, development, manufacturing and delivery of commercial-class robotics systems.

Filed Under: Design & Development, News Tagged With: Robotics Summit

ATI releases standard tool changer for small robots

December 5, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

ATI’s QC-29 Robotic Tool Changer is designed for robots in the 25 – 35 kg payload class. It’s the first standard ATI Tool Changer designed with a rectangular body that mounts directly to 40mm and 50mm robot wrists.

Filed Under: End of Arm Tooling, News, Robot Components, Technologies, Tool Changer Tagged With: ATI Industrial Automation

READY Robotics partners with Futura Automation on Forge/OS

December 3, 2021 By Brianna Wessling Leave a Comment

READY Robotics Forge/OS 5

Futura Automation hopes to use READY Robotics’ Forge O/S system to allow its customers to interchange robots from different brands.

Filed Under: News, Software, Technologies Tagged With: READY Robotics

Robotics Summit & Expo returns to Boston in May 2022

November 19, 2021 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Robotics Summit

Robotics Summit & Expo returns to Boston in May 2022 with deepened coverage, an expanded showfloor, and co-location with Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.

Filed Under: Design & Development, Healthcare Robotics, News Tagged With: Robotics Summit

ActiNav enables lights-out machine tending at family-owned manufacturer

November 15, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

ActiNav

To address labor shortages and long cycle times, New England Union Company deployed a UR10e cobot arm and ActiNav bin picking system to run untended all night long.

Filed Under: Case Studies, News, Pick & Place Tagged With: Universal Robots

OnRobot WebLytics software monitors multiple cobot cells

November 15, 2021 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

OnRobot

WebLytics offers real-time production monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics. It’s compatible with all leading cobot and lightweight industrial robot arms.

Filed Under: News, Software Tagged With: OnRobot

IDS Imaging adds compact uEye+ industrial cameras

November 6, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

The uEye+ cameras can be used with robots that navigate autonomously or for robots that pick up and manipulate items.

Filed Under: Cameras / Imaging / Vision, News Tagged With: IDS Imaging

Universal Robots gains major endorsements for cobot education program

November 2, 2021 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

cobot

These recognitions will help schools immensely when they apply for funding to get cobots into classrooms, while also ensuring the courses they offer are recognized and wanted by the industries that employ their graduates.

Filed Under: Cobots 101, News Tagged With: Universal Robots

OMRON acquires 10% of cobot maker Techman Robot

November 2, 2021 By Mike Oitzman Leave a Comment

OMRON

Since 2018, the TM series cobot arms have been sold as a co-branded product globally through OMRON’s distribution network.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Tagged With: omron, Techman Robot

Universal Robots earns record $78M in Q3 for cobot arms

October 29, 2021 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

This marks a 2.6% increase from the $76 million UR earned in Q2 2021, but it’s a massive 46% increase year over year and a 31% increase from Q3 2019.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, News Tagged With: Universal Robots

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