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Samsung increases stake in Rainbow Robotics, establishes Future Robotics Office

Robotics Business Review

” Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technologys ( KAIST ) Humanoid Robot Research Center founded Rainbow Robotics in 2011. In addition, Samsung plans to use Rainbow Robotics RB cobots , dual-arm mobile manipulator , and autonomous mobile robots ( AMRs ) to automate manufacturing and logistics tasks.

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Inside Yoke Industrial’s smart factory: 108 robotic arms and 71 automation systems working to enhance quality and efficiency

Robotics Automation News

Whats described as a bifocal modernisation strategy, implemented in 2011, is ongoing at Yoke Industrials pioneering industrial lifting equipment manufacturing facility Production at Taiwanese company Yoke Industrial Corp started in 1997. A lot has changed since, as well explore in this article.

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ARS Automation designs compact FlexiBowl 200 to handle small parts

Robotics Business Review

Source: ARS Automation As industrial robots become ever faster and more accurate, they need automated systems upstream and downstream to keep up. ARS Automation this month announced the launch of FlexiBowl 200, it latest flexible feeding system for modern manufacturing. claimed the Arezzo, Italy-based company.

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How to Automate a Prototyping Shop

Modern Machine Shop

Prototyping shops and automation are a seemingly counterintuitive pairing. But as KAD Models ’ Randolph, Vermont, location demonstrates, automation can work for prototyping shops — it just requires a shift in perspective on how to perform automation. Images courtesy of FANUC America.

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More Thoughts On Emerson and NI plus Last Newsletter

Gary Mintchell

My first reaction was somewhat negative thinking from an automation point of view. When I first became an editor, he was a vice president of an automation technology provider. We had many meetings where he extolled the virtues of Ethernet in automation. Here is an interview I did with two early employees from 2011.

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50 most innovative robotics companies

Robotics Business Review

This marked a significant step in the decommissioning efforts of three reactors that lost their cooling systems during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, leaving behind an estimated 880 tons of radioactive fuel. The robot is being used by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which manages the plant. million lbs. million lbs. million lbs.

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Ignition Community Conference 2022

Gary Mintchell

With the pandemic mostly in the rearview mirror, Inductive Automation held its Ignition Community Conference 2022 in Folsom, CA Sept. A bonus: Here is a link to my March 15, 2011 podcast recorded in the conference room at the company’s original headquarters in Sacramento. The event was sold out, as usual.