Adoption by new industries, ease of use, and securing production top IFR’s list of robotics trends to watch in 2022.
Collaborative Robotics News
Robotics Summit & Expo opens registration
Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the design, development, manufacture and delivery of commercial-class robotics systems.
11 cobots assemble Fiat 500 electric car
On the Fiat 500 electric car production line, some of the assembly processes and quality controls required collaborative robots.
Yaskawa robots switch between cobot, industrial mode
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.
Universal Robots makes record $311M in 2021
On the backs of Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, Teradyne’s robotics group increased revenues 34% in 2021
Robotics integrator Eckhart acquired by private equity firm
Eckhart offers engineering, design, simulation and integration services, as well as proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems such as AGVs and cobots.
Tactile sensing creates advantages for cobots
Tactile sensing technologies allow collaborative robots to feel many classes of objects – hard, soft, rigid, flexible, etc.
Nominations open for RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards 2022
The RBR50 Awards honor the most creative and influential innovations from around the global robotics industry.
Robotics Summit & Expo call for speakers
The Robotics Summit & Expo focuses on the technical issues involved with the design, development, manufacturing and delivery of commercial-class robotics systems.
ATI releases standard tool changer for small robots
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.
READY Robotics partners with Futura Automation on Forge/OS
Futura Automation hopes to use READY Robotics’ Forge O/S system to allow its customers to interchange robots from different brands.
Robotics Summit & Expo returns to Boston in May 2022
Robotics Summit & Expo returns to Boston in May 2022 with deepened coverage, an expanded showfloor, and co-location with Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.
ActiNav enables lights-out machine tending at family-owned manufacturer
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.
OnRobot WebLytics software monitors multiple cobot cells
WebLytics offers real-time production monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics. It’s compatible with all leading cobot and lightweight industrial robot arms.
IDS Imaging adds compact uEye+ industrial cameras
The uEye+ cameras can be used with robots that navigate autonomously or for robots that pick up and manipulate items.
Universal Robots gains major endorsements for cobot education program
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.
OMRON acquires 10% of cobot maker Techman Robot
Since 2018, the TM series cobot arms have been sold as a co-branded product globally through OMRON’s distribution network.
Universal Robots earns record $78M in Q3 for cobot arms
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.
RightHand Robotics raises $19M for robotic piece-picking
RightHand Robotics is looking to raise a total of $40 million in its latest funding round.
PBC Linear expands factory of future program with Applied Cobotics
PBC Linear, a Pacific Bearing Company and a global leader in linear motion solutions, continues to elevate its Factory of the Future Program with its newest venture, Applied Cobotics. Its mission aims to provide automation solutions by integrating collaborative robots (cobots), material lift systems, 3D printing, and other automation technologies into manufacturing systems. Recent events […]
