Control Engineering

MARCH 8, 2023

Engelberger Robotics Awards, the world’s most prestigious robotics honor. Roberta Nelson Shea , global technical compliance officer, Universal Robots, was selected as the Application winner for her outstanding work over the course of her career in global robotics safety. safety meeting… so many years ago.

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Control Engineering

JULY 12, 2022

Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for flying, insect-scale robots. The tiny artificial muscles that control the robots’ wings emit colored light during flight. This electroluminescence could enable the robots to communicate with each other. The process adds just 2.5

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) worked with Gojo Industries to create robotic cells: a de-tray and layer forming system. Designing the de-tray and layer forming robotic cells allowed several the engineering team to solve robot speed issues and meet cycle time requirements. Project summary.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The global market for key components used in industrial robots reached $12.1 billion in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%, driven by production of collaborative and SCARA robots. The growth of the components market will likely slow down over time, as the robot market matures and stabilizes. from 2022 to 2027. respectively.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 12, 2023

Robotics insights The next stage in the evolution of robotics is mobility and autonomous operation. Modular individual transport (MIT) systems and automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems help manufacturers become more flexible and abopens up a new range of opportunities for manufacturing companies.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Robotic insights MIT researchers developed GelSight Svelte, a camera-based touch sensor shaped like a human finger, enabling robotic hands to perform versatile grasping tasks beyond simple pinching motions. These robots, in turn, use only their fingertips to grasp objects, typically with a pinching motion.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Robotics insights. China passed the United States in robot density for the first time as the nation is putting enhanced emphasis on robotics and automation to keep up with manufacturing demand. This is according to the World Robotics 2022 report, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

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Control Engineering

JUNE 12, 2023

Robotics insights The robotic picking market is expected to grow to almost $7 billion by 2030, which is leaps and bounds above where it is right now. Interact Analysis research shows the market for robotic picking is in the early stages of growth, but that it presents huge potential. billion by 2030. billion by 2030.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Robotics Insights. Robots can help fill some, but not all, of the labor gap manufacturers currently face. The challenge is getting manufacturers to buy into the concept because they believe robots are too expensive and will take jobs when the opposite is true. Three myths about robots, automation.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 10, 2023

Robotics insights MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a four-legged robot called DribbleBot that can dribble a soccer ball the way a human can. This will be useful in making robots more dexterous and able to handle sensitive jobs in the future. Programming robots to play soccer has been an active research area for some time.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Collaborative robots (cobot) have been around for more than 15 years, and recent sensing and motion control technologies are improving quality while reducing weld process time on a 30-pass weld by more than 80%. Control system design for robotic motion. and better fixturing, inconsistencies still exist in the weld shop. 

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Control Engineering

JUNE 6, 2023

Motion control and robotics insights Motion control and robotics maintenance requires strong understand of all the components and mechanisms in a motor and a robot, which are sometimes intertwined. Robots can have up to 6-7 axes of motion or as few as 3. Figure 5: Robot coordinate axes and right-hand rule.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 17, 2023

Robotics insights MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses hi-res tough sensing to accurately identify an object up to 85% after grasping it one time. This is part of a larger effort to make robots more like humans so they can operate in more sensitive operations and can do the dull, dirty and dangerous jobs.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 5, 2023

Robotics insights FluidLab is a simulation tool from researchers at the MIT CSAIL designed to enhance robot learning for complex fluid manipulation tasks. This is part of the continuing development for robotics and making them more adept at simple human tasks, which have often been a challenge for them to achieve.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

Robotics insights Researchers have developed a machine-learning approach to make controlling a robot or autonomous vehicle more efficient and effective in dynamic environments. This could help robots and autonomous vehicles’ use be more widespread in environments where there are a lot of people or in tight quarters.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2022

Robotics Insights. Improving robots’ ability to grip and handle objects has been a major challenge for manufacturers because it limits what they can do on the plant floor. It would have been too challenging for a robot to make this transition because robots are tied to their usual tasks.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 19, 2023

Robots insights MIT researchers have developed a technique that can solve complex stabilize-avoid problems while improving stability. The paper will be presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference. The post AI-enabled approach helps make autonomous robots safe, reliable appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 30, 2023

Workforce development insights Manufacturers’ biggest challenge continues to be attracting and retaining a quality workforce and the demographics indicate this won’t be going away as workers get older. Robots play a key role in automation growth Analysts are saying it. Manufacturers are saying it.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 16, 2023

To kick off the 2023 Hannover Messe show, the Hermes Award was given to Bosch Rexroth for the third time, winning this time for their Smart Flex Effector project, which consists of a sensor-based compensation module (end effector) for robots, featuring independent, precise kinematics in six degrees of freedom.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mobile robotics is driving demand for ultra-low voltage motors and will account for 15.6% This is being driven by demand from battery driven applications and a need for greater flexibility in manufacturing and logistics processes. By 2027, integrated motors will account for 14% of the motors used in mobile robots.

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Control Engineering

MAY 8, 2023

Robotics insights MIT researchers have developed a a pick-and-place robot with a gripper that grasps by reflex and can adapt if it fails to grasp an object the first time around. Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 18, 2023

Automation is a $100 billion market compromised of robotics, software and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and hybrid markets that take advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Automatic and robotic processes. Automation can address five manufacturing concerns. Automation is driving Industry 4.0,

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This technology can help make machines, particularly robots, perform better and cut down on inefficiencies. We’re not just saying that this ethical framework would work well for AI, we’re presenting it in language that is accessible in a computer science context. Our future depends on it.”.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 6, 2022

Multimodal sensors are a newer technology capable of working with several applications within a single sensing unit, allowing for a more flexible future when it comes to bioelectronics, robotics, health monitoring devices, human-machine interfaces (HMI) and more.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Produced by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), Automate will feature advances in robotics, vision, artificial intelligence (AI), motion control and other technologies from more than 600 exhibitors. Show registration is free and opens today.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 27, 2023

The researchers’ recent study, published in Science Robotics , details how this new breed of agents can adapt to significant distribution shifts, a long-standing challenge in the field. These networks can then extract crucial aspects of a task (i.e.,

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 23, 2023

Material Science Insights A new rubber-like material could aid in the creation of “soft robots” capable of motion without utilizing gears or other hard components. They say similar materials could one day help embody “soft robots” (those that don’t need gears or other hard components to move) to leap or lift.

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Control Engineering

MAY 22, 2023

At the end of the day, everyone buys a machine to be more productive,” said Nivedita Ojha, VP of products, Fort Robotics, in her presentation “Cybersecurity for Smart Machines: Tackling the Real-World Risks,” at Automate 2023 in Detroit. Smart machine integration and communications abilities require attention to cybersecurity. “At

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 23, 2023

3D/Additive Manufacturing, Forming & Fabricating Fabricating & Metalworking is proud to present the FABTECH 2023 Product Showcase, which is an invaluable guide to navigating the trade show floor at McCormick Place in Chicago this September. Buena Park, CA) will introduce the new EGB 1303 ARse bending robot at Booth A1304.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is a chance to showcase successful automation implementation within Canadian discrete manufacturing plants! The pandemic, Ukraine-Russia war, increasing costs and rising inflation rates have had considerable impact on the growth of the manufacturing industry. Introducing the Canadian Automation Awards. OEM of the Year.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is a chance to showcase successful automation implementation within Canadian discrete manufacturing plants! The pandemic, Ukraine-Russia war, increasing costs and rising inflation rates have had considerable impact on the growth of the manufacturing industry. Introducing the Canadian Automation Awards. OEM of the Year.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

More complex systems include servomechanisms, robotics, and machine vision. Different types of software are used to access programs and different data types used in presenting numerical and text information. There also are classifications of machinery that can be useful to know about.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Fabricating & Metalworking is proud to present the FABTECH 2022 Product Showcase, which is an invaluable guide to navigating the trade show floor at the Georgia World Congress Center this November. Behringer Saws (Morgantown, PA) is excited to be presenting the HBE-320/523GA, fully automatic miter saw in Booth B7817. Booth B7109.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

Courtesy: AutomationDirect A typical use case would be the design of a manufacturing cell with enclosed electrical equipment. The cell is normally locked from operator use while energy (electrical, pneumatic and/or other) is present. A system of sensors and controls is deployed to accomplish the cell locking/unlocking task.

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Control Engineering

MAY 30, 2023

Robotics insights Total robotics installations in manufacturing rose more than 10% in 2022 with the automotive industry being the main driver. The North American robotics market showed strong growth: Total installations in manufacturing rose by 12% and reached 41,624 units in 2022.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 18, 2023

Collaborative robot insights Cobots are helping manufacturers become more flexible as their versatility grows. Collaborative robots (cobots) have seen huge growth in the past few years. Flexibility is a key trump card for cobots over traditional six-axis robots,” said Barry Graham, collaborative robot specialist at Omron.

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Control Engineering

MAY 24, 2023

Robotics AI insights AI-enabled robotics can help robots learn like humans, which could have a massive impact on how traditional manufacturing operates. Robots are inflexible by design, but AI-enabled robotics that use sensors, data-driven computation and more can enhance their capabilities.

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