Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More robotics news emanating from IMTS, the International Manufacturing Technology Show. This from Olis Robotics who provides remote monitoring, diagnostics, and debugging across complete industrial cells thanks to PLC functionality built into the company’s flagship solution.

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Design World

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ABB to supply over 1,300 robots including functional packages to Volvo Cars for the next generation of electric vehicles. ABB’s new family of energy-efficient large robots and OmniCore controllers will help Volvo Cars deliver energy savings of up to 20% and achieve its ambitious sustainability targets.

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Design World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Naviq is introducing the MTS160, a state-of-the-art magnetic guide sensor for mobile robots, featuring patented angle measurement capabilities with 1-degree precision and position accuracy within 1mm.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 26, 2024

Source: ARM Insitute The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM Institute today said it has added capabilities to RoboticsCareer.org, its resource for robotics careers in U.S. Internships are now included in the job-matching functionality. RoboticsCareer.org has been redesigned to help people find careers in manufacturing.

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Design World

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Naviq’s new MTS160 is a state-of-the-art magnetic guide sensor for mobile robots, featuring patented angle measurement capabilities with 1-degree precision and position accuracy within 1 mm.

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Gary Mintchell

JUNE 10, 2024

Once motion control systems, robot systems, and logic control systems existed as if on two different planets. Several years ago Rockwell Automation announced a robot control platform integrated into its control platform. Several years ago Rockwell Automation announced a robot control platform integrated into its control platform.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 15, 2023

Vision-guided robot (VGR) insights. Vision-guided robot (VGR) technology has grown thanks to advanced in RGBD cameras, which allow the robot to accurately acquire 3D models. VGRs also are more flexible than traditional robots and the vision systems can make them safer, as well. Flexibility is another benefit of VGRs.

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Robotics Automation News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Tethys Robotics, a Swiss startup in underwater robotics, has launched its latest product: Tethys ONE, an ROV/AUV hybrid designed for automated precision underwater inspections, even in the harshest conditions.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I teased about the renewal of Rethink Robotics a couple of weeks ago. Rethink Robotics Unveils Two New AMRs With a renewed vision that aims to seamlessly integrate advanced robotics into manufacturing and logistics environments, Rethink Robotics announces the Rethink Ryder line of AMRs.

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Mold Making Technology

JANUARY 10, 2024

update for SprutCAM X, the company’s all-in-one CAD/CAM/OLP software suite for complex and creative robot tasks. This update introduces enhanced functionalities, bug fixes and improvements designed to streamline the user experience. A key enhancement in SprutCAM X and SprutCAM X Robot 17.0.10

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Source: Universal Robots The latest advances in artificial intelligence promise to improve robot capabilities, but engineers need to bring the technologies together. Universal Robots A/S last week announced its UR AI Accelerator, a hardware and software toolkit to enable the development of AI-powered collaborative robot applications.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Indoor mobile robots rely on autonomous navigation for safe and efficient delivery. Source: Relay Robotics When we think of autonomous navigation, the first thing that usually comes to mind is self-driving cars. Relay robots in particular, are being deployed in busy hospitals and hotels across the world.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Kassow Robots has introduced a new line of compact collaborative robot arms (cobots) designed to integrate with mobile robots. The new cobots feature a direct DC connection from battery power, enabling them to operate while mounted to a mobile robot. Kassow Robots exited stealth mode at Automatica 2018.

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i4.0 today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Robots, by definition, are machines with autonomy. Over the past several years, robots have gained significant momentum in a variety of industries, such as logistics and delivery, manufacturing, cleaning and disinfection, and daily services. Sensors enable robots to perceive their ambient environments (e.g., are achieved.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Website: [link] Year Founded: 1861 Number of Employees: 500+ Innovation Class: Technology, Product & Services MIT engineers developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle that mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts. The RRV currently simulates realistic heart functions over a few months.

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Gary Mintchell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Most of the news I’ve seen on the “automation” side concerns robotics and autonomous mobile vehicles. Perhaps the most intriguing of their announcements concerns the shortage of skilled workforce—an educational robot platform said to be a fraction of the cost of others. Now, we turn to industrial-grade robots introduced at the show.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2024

Olis’ PLC system alerts users to what went wrong when a robot stops working. Source: Olis Robotics End users turn to automation because it promises consistent work with minimal downtime. When something goes wrong, the robot must stop working and wait for a human operator to step in and figure out the problem. Register now.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 19, 2024

MODEX is a material handling show, so it’s not surprising that robotics of various kinds should take a featured place. I have to say that ever since I was introduced to robots in 1984 that Schneider Electric is not a name that pops easily to mind when I think of the market segment. I’ve written about several lately.

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Automation World

JUNE 1, 2023

The new Smart Flex Effector from Bosch Rexroth is a sensor-based compensation unit for industrial robots and Cartesian systems with an active measuring function in six degrees of freedom.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2024

Credit: Richtech Robotics Richtech Robotics, which specializes in AI-driven service robots, installed its first ADAM robot bartender at the Texas Rangers’ Globe Life Field. The robot will reside within a stadium bar serving cocktails and mocktails alongside a team of human bartenders. Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 7, 2024

RB-Y1 mounts a humanoid-type double-arm robot on a wheeled, high-speed mobile base. Credit: Rainbow Robotics Rainbow Robotics announced the release of detailed specifications for the new RB- Y1 mobile robot. The RB- Y1 is a form of wheeled robot base with a humanoid double-arm robot on top.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At Agility Robotics, we are working with our humanoid robot Digit, which balances actively at all times, can recover from unexpected bumps, and can lift and move heavy things. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics. There are 28 degrees of freedom and quite a few sensors.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 22, 2023

HarmonicDrive gears are currently used in automation equipment, robotics and aerospace applications. Optimized for collaborative robots, the sensor also exhibits low susceptibility to crosstalk. The safety torque sensor incorporates the microfused sensing technology known for its reproducibility, long-term stability and reliability.

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Design World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Over the last six decades, automation and robotics have advanced how functional industrial coatings are applied and used. Functional coatings have been used in industrial applications since… The post Automation advances the application and performance of industrial coatings appeared first on Design World.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 30, 2024

Elmo demonstrates its technologies in a gantry robot. Source: Elmo Motion Control From industrial automation and healthcare applications to increasingly diverse use cases, robots need precise and reliable motion control. ” Platinum line includes Bassoon with functional safety Platinum Bassoon Servo Drive. .”

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2024

. | Source: MicroPort MicroPort recently announced it completed six robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy procedures using its MedBot surgical robot in Angola. Robotic telesurgery allows a surgeon to conduct operations from a distance using a robotic system connected through telecom networks. Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 1, 2024

. | Credit: Richtech Robotics Richtech Robotics just unveiled its newest autonomous mobile robot (AMR): Medbot. The mobile robot provides round-the-clock medication deliveries for pharmacy operations. Casella was a recent guest on The Robot Report Podcast. Submit your presentation idea now.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Source: Advanced Construction Robotics Advanced Construction Robotics Inc. today announced that its rebar-tying robot, which it has provided through a robotics-as-a-service model, is now also available for purchase. ” The gantry robot is able to work at widths from 67 ft. Register now. at $455,500.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The researchers’ robotic finger contains conductive fiber coils and a twisted liquid-metal fiber at the fingertip. Combined with machine learning, automatic robotic examination and diagnosis can be achieved, particularly beneficial for these undeveloped areas where there is a serious shortage in health workers,” he said.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang ended his GTC 2024 keynote presentation backed by images of all of the various humanoid robots currently on the market that are powered by the Jetson Orin computer. Talla shared his perspective on the race to build humanoids and how developers can benefit from NVIDIA’s offerings with The Robot Report.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The new Highmate C20 Hold Cleaning robot is equipped with five 500-bar high-pressure nozzles. Source: RobotPlusPlus RobotPlusPlus this week provided live demonstrations of its HighMate C20 Hold Cleaning Robot at the SMM 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany. RobotPlusPlus engineers robots to work at height. m (5,381.9 m (5,381.9

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2024

3Laws’ Supervisor is a software layer that operates between the autonomy stack and the robot to monitor and correct motion commands in real-time to deliver collision avoidance, geofencing, system stability, and other necessary outcomes. Credit: 3Laws Robotics 3Laws Robotics has secured $4.1M 3Laws Co-Founder Prof.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 23, 2024

Universal Robots, along with other cobot manufacturers, cobots can now use SRCI, a standard interface between PLCs and robots. Source: Universal Robots Just before Hanover Messe, Siemens announced its cooperation with two collaborative robot vendors, UR and JAKA. One is to retain the robot-specific controller hardware.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 22, 2024

I’m not in love with predictions and I realize January is about gone, but here are some thoughts I picked up from Anders Billesø Beck, VP of Innovation and Strategy at Universal Robots. But how will these trends impact robotics and automation and what can the manufacturing industry expect to see next year?

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 12, 2024

Meili Robots and WAKU Robotics are partnering to deliver a software stack for robot operations. The companies say a superior software stack will be key for robots to transform industries. Robots are becoming essential parts of a number of industries. Register now.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Penn State researchers have developed a wearable synaptic transistor to improve device memories for robotics and wearable devices. Robotics and wearable devices might get a little smarter with the addition of a stretchy, wearable synaptic transistor developed by Penn State engineers. The details were published in Nature Electronics.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2024

Interact Analysis identified three main scenarios for machine-robot integration. Source: Interact Analysis The market for machine-integrated robots is gaining momentum, according to Interact Analysis. It predicted that shipments of machine-integrated robots will grow steadily by 9.2% Over the next five years, the U.K.-based

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