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Mobile manipulators: Flexibility through mobility

Mobile robots are now a key element in various factories, responsible for transporting raw materials, moving items between work stations, and delivering finished goods to storage or dispatch areas. These adaptable platforms can carry tools, components, and entire assemblies.

Open Sauce's Eye-catching Creations? Meet Elegoo's AI Robots, Glowing Cosplay Wings, and More, All 3D Printed

Elegoo, a rapidly developing brand in global smart manufacturing, joins Open Sauce today, one of the world's biggest gatherings of makers, creators, and tech innovators - at Booth A15 and A16, the San Mateo County Event Center.

10 things to consider when exploring Offline Robot Programming software solutions

Offline Robot Programming (OLP) takes the programming "offline" - away from the teach pendent / robot cell - allowing the user to generate the robotic code from their computer without having to take the robot out of production to generate it.

How Autonomous AI Tackles Quality Control Costs

Quality is often viewed as a direct driver of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency in manufacturing. Yet some organizations fail to recognize the hidden costs of quality issues, significantly impacting the bottom line.

Battery inspection using machine vision – fast, reliable, and variable

Averna has developed a procedure for automating battery inspection for one of its customers. The fact that potential errors are extremely varied increases the complexity of the inspection process.

How to Achieve the Full Benefits of a Warehouse Digital Twin

A warehouse digital twin needs more than a highly capable WMS, it also needs a reliable technology to capture all the necessary inventory data, and this is where computer vision plays a pivotal role.

Physical AI: Embracing AI’s Moment in Robotics

Manufacturers currently use automation to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, cut costs, and meet growing consumer demands. Yet they face a myriad of disruptions such as labor shortages, limitations of current technologies, and costly downtimes on production lines.

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DESTACO Unveils the eRDH Series Electric Parallel Gripper: The Future of Automated Handling

This latest addition to the DESTACO Robohand product line represents a significant leap forward in gripping technology, offering unparalleled precision, flexibility, and ease of use.

From Displacement to Empowerment: How Robotics Developers Can Lead the Workforce Reskilling Revolution

As automation continues to integrate into our factories, warehouses, and supply chains, the conversation around workforce transition and reskilling has become one of the most urgent and defining challenges of our time.

How AI, Robotics, and Automation Power Next Generation Pack Assembly

Successful pack assembly systems balance throughput, quality, and safety in real time. Integration matters more than buying the most sophisticated robots; it comes down to seamless software logic, modular failover paths, and smart system design.

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Industrial EMC Solutions for Interference-Free Connectivity

Mencom Corporation provides advanced EMC solutions, mitigating EMI and ensuring reliable performance in high-interference industrial environments.

Kassow Robots Introduces Sensitive Arm Technology for Enhanced Collaborative Robotics

The Sensitive Arm system provides real-time, low-latency force feedback while utilizing integrated torque sensors across all joints. With a sensor resolution of up to 0.024 Nm/bit and a control frequency of 30 kHz, the system enables compliant and nuanced motions essential for complex tasks such as assembly, surface finishing, inspection and delicate handling.

Palladyne AI Selected to Demonstrate Palladyne™ IQ Embodied Intelligence Software at KUKA Connexions Conference

Embodied AI leader recently demonstrated how Palladyne™ IQ software enables KUKA robots to "think more like humans" at KUKA Robotics' North American System Partners conference

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Robotmaster® 2024
Robotmaster® 2024

Robotmaster® 2024

Program multi-robot cells and automatically solve robotic errors with ease. Hypertherm Associates announces a new version to its robotic programming software. Robotmaster 2024 addresses key market trends including the support for programming multiple robots in a single work cell and the demand for automatic trajectory optimization and robotic error correction.

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MVTec LLC

MVTec is a leading international manufacturer of software for machine vision used in all demanding areas of imaging like the semi-conductor industry, inspection, optical quality control, metrology, medicine or surveillance. In particular, software by MVTec enables new automation solutions in settings of the Industrial Internet of Things. MVTec is the developer and vendor of the general purpose machine vision software products HALCON and MERLIC.