The future lies in collaboration
Teamwork of tomorrow: At Fachpack, ASA Automation is presenting an application in which a collaborative robot from Fanuc demonstrates direct cooperation with humans.
read more...HRC + Cobots
read more...Fully automatic sorting and packaging
Everything from a single source: Kawasaki Robotics presents at Fachpack how sorting, packaging, palletizing and labeling can be automated.
read more...Motoman robots at the Fachpack
Picking, packing and palletizing
Yaskawa will be presenting automation solutions and components for the packaging process: from the process level and interfaces to control systems, application-specific drive technology and robot-based handling.
read more...Build your own robot
The robot as an assembly kit for the hygiene sector - SEW offers the right drive and control solution for this with the Maxolution parallel arm kinematics kit. You can configure it online, order it and put it into operation yourself.
read more...Medical robots from the printer
Five international research teams are developing a robot for the tumor therapy of the future. Although it consists of dozens of components, joints and actuators with different material properties, it can be produced in a single process step using a 3D printer.
read more...SMC equips Fanuc Academy
SMC and Fanuc have been working together for three years to equip the Fanuc Academy. SMC supplies electrical and pneumatic automation solutions for the Academy's robotics and automotive training rooms.
read more...Robots for the healthcare sector
The technology group ABB wants to equip medical laboratories with collaborative robots.
read more...Artists have robots copy the Bible
In Dordrecht, the Netherlands, a KUKA KR 16 robot is part of an art project to mark the 400th anniversary of the Dordrecht Synod and is independently writing down the Bible in Dutch using a calligraphy pen.
read more...New arms for the Scara
Yamaha is expanding its Scara family: the available arm lengths now range from just 120 to 1,200 millimeters and the maximum payload from one to 50 kilograms to speed up pick & place, packing and unpacking tasks as well as mechanical assembly tasks.
read more...Flexible line
Flexible production lines that can cope with rapid product changes, customization and small batch sizes are in demand. Collaborative robots can make an important contribution, especially if they can be used on the move.
read more...Consistently high process quality
A deburring cell with an ABB robot shows what is possible with automation in machining production. In addition to system availability, productivity and cycle time, motor specialist Deutz was also able to increase flexibility and product quality - with consistently reproducible results.
read more...It all depends on the planning
Autonomous transport systems. Mobile robot platforms offer potential for optimizing production. The joint research project FORobotics looks at mobile, ad-hoc cooperating robot teams, sub-project 3 "Task-oriented planning" deals with the planning and control of networked and mobile production resources.
read more...Kawasaki opens subsidiary in France
Kawasaki wants to strengthen its presence on the French market with a new branch. The cooperation with the long-standing French partner and sales partner Delta Equipement will be continued.
read more...High-tech license plates in the desert state
The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai's competent authority for vehicle registration, will in future rely on embossing robots from Tönnjes for embossing and issuing license plates.
read more...Picks up little things
IAI Industrieroboter has expanded its range of freely programmable electric grippers for pneumatic automation. These include a two-point lifting magnet gripper for small parts assembly and a long-stroke gripper for large workpieces.
read more...The gripper learns with
A small robot from Kuka's KR Agilus series is a key component of Swisslog's new Item-PiQ generation. The provider of automation solutions for warehouses and distribution centers is part of the Kuka Group and has presented the fully automated picking solution.
read more...Said, (asked,) done
The VerbBot project of the Chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems at the University of Bayreuth is investigating how to enable flexible natural language instruction of robots for force-based tasks.
read more...Bremen robots win Robocup 2019 in Sydney
Robots are also finding their way into soccer. This year, Team B-Human from Bremen showed what the little robots can do in this popular sport at the international robotics competition Robocup in Sydney.
read more...Intralogistics - efficient and active
Bosch Rexroth has presented an autonomous transport system that aims to automate and standardize the flow of materials and goods in logistics and production.
read more...Picking at high speed
Yamaha's Factory Automation Section portfolio includes all common types of industrial robots such as Cartesian and Scara robots as well as single and multi-axis articulated robots.
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