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The International Federation of Robotics has presented the new World Robotics Report: Global sales of industrial robots reached a new record of 381,000 units shipped in 2017 - up 30 percent on the previous year and still rising.
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In the Manipulators, Robotics and System Solutions category, third place went to Boll Automation for Robomill, an innovative robot solution for the flexible precision machining of surfaces from batch size 1.
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Second place in the Manipulators, Robotics and System Solutions category went to Preccon. The company presented iMS, a measuring system for industrial robots for fully automatic diagnosis and independent calibration of the entire robot cell.
read more...In addition to Motoman robots for spot and arc welding, cutting and handling, Yaskawa also focuses on drive and control technology for metalworking machines.
read more...Speedy 200 is a self-sufficient and mobile automation station with integrated memory and optional additional functions from Martin Systems. It has a compact design and is intuitive to operate.
read more...Universal Robots (UR) has sold 25,000 collaborative robots by August 2018. The company is celebrating this milestone by giving away gold edition robots to selected customers.
read more...Asyril's new URCaps plug-in is now available on the Universal Robots+ Solutions platform. This facilitates seamless and fast integration of all Asycube products with any Universal robot.
read more...Maccon has introduced the Everest family of miniature servo controllers for brushless motors with outputs of up to five kilowatts. The new servo controller from Spanish manufacturer Ingenia measures 42 x 30 x 22 millimetres and weighs 20 grams.
read more...Automated surface processing. Automation specialist SHL has developed a combined system for grinding, scotching and polishing that improves the automated processing of door handles at FSB.
read more...Fanuc is expanding its range of collaborative robots. The new CR-15iA with a payload capacity of 15 kilograms closes the gap between the smaller CR-4iA/CR-7ia models and the CR-35iA.
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