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Robotics Competition Highlights Students’ Skills
As a way to showcase the industrial robot skills of high school and technical college students for prospective employers, Lab Midwest and Fanuc Robotics hosted the first Team Robotics Competition.
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OPC Robotics Specification Released
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Cobots Address Skilled Welder Shortage
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Ultra-Light Vacuum Gripper for Cobots
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PACK EXPO Las Vegas & Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2019 break multiple records
The year’s biggest packaging show in the world does not disappoint
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Sensors ensure worker safety with cobots
SICK’s microScan3 safety laser scanners control the speed of cobots to keep workers safe while maintaining productivity.
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Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project
Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.
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FANUC Shows Off Full Range of Robots, Cobots
Robots for picking, packing, and palletizing. PLC motion software allows programming via ladder logic.
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Schneider Electric Unveils IIoT-Ready PLCs, AR, and Motion
Demos of IIoT box as server for hands-free augmented reality and next-generation of motor controls.
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Yaskawa Motoman Showcases Smart Pendant & New Cobot
The intuitive program enables the robot to connect the dots without programming. Plus, a sneak peek at the HC20 20kg cobot.
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Machines that sense the world around them
ADI gives cobots the ability to sense, adapt and interpret its surroundings. Our motion detection and machine learning expertise is transforming factory floors. From invention to breakthrough with ADI.
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Palletizer Handles Variety of Package Sizes
ABB Palletizer uses imaging to handle a wide range of package sizes for e-commerce.
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Using Cobots in Packaging Applications
James Cooper, Executive Director of Global Accounts at FANUC America Corp., spoke at the Innovation Stage at PACK EXPO Monday about how CPGs are implementing cobots for packaging applications.
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Cobots Make Random Picks
And overcome what used to be impossible.
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Robot moves stacks of pallets
Mobile unit reduces fork truck traffic and improves worker safety on the manufacturing floor.
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Growing the Ecosystem for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) is growing its MiRGo partner program. At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, a MiR1000 incorporates a TR1000 top roller from ROEQ.
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End-to-End Cobot Solution for Blessings in a Backpack
System integrator Allied Technology worked with Universal Robots to create a compact system for packaging food into bags for kids in need.
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Epson Introduces Flexible Feeder and All-in-One 6-Axis robot
The IntelliFlex feeder is integrated with robots and vision, while the VT6L robot reaches up to 900 mm with a payload up to 6 kg.
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High-Speed Assembly Robots
Denso's HSA1 Robots run with a single controller.
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Columbia/Okura Rolls Out Palletizing Cobot
A partnership with Universal Robots results in a mobile collaborative product that may ease labor issues.
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Collaborative Robot Gets the Heavy Lifting Done
Universal Robots’ latest cobot has a payload capability of 16 kg, enabling its use in packaging and palletizing, heavy machine tending, and more.
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Integrating Robots Into Your Manufacturing Environment
Robots in the manufacturing environment is becoming much more prevalent, but it hasn’t gotten any easier to implement. These four questions will help your organization figure out if they’re ready for implementation.
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Epson Expands Industrial Automation Reach
Extending its high-speed, high-precision technologies across a range of price points, Epson is positioning itself to be a major player in small part handling robots, vision, and feeder systems.
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Nokia Employs 5G In Its Own Factory
To prove the capabilities of its private wireless 4.9G & 5G networks, edge/cloud, and analytics technologies, Nokia put them into play in its Oulu, Finland, base station pre-production facility.
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Just Born and JLS Team Up to Automate Peeps Brand Packaging
The line integrates JLS robotic packaging cells with equipment from several OEMs. The flexible format accommodates various configurations, upping productivity without impacting the workforce.
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Workcells for Robotic Welding
Built for demanding production environments, the compact ArcWorld 50 series workcells from Yaskawa Motoman are affordable, wire-to-weld solutions that are pre-assembled on a common base.
