Cobots are key to the future of manufacturing, enhancing production efficiency, flexibility and quality with the help of camera and vision technology, says Omron’s Peter Lange. Collaborative robots (cobots) have a key role in current and future trends in industrial automation and production. (more...)

Vola, a Danish manufacturer of luxury sanitary and kitchen fittings, has opened a new factory that incorporates a fleet of nine mobile robots from Omron. This represents one of the most ambitious industrial mobile robot projects in the Nordics. The new robot fleet works side-by-side with people and (more...)

Stäubli’s Simon Jenkins explores the relationship between the different project stakeholders and outlines what end users should look for when selecting an integrator. Robot systems have become an essential part of a growing number of production processes, as manufacturers leverage the (more...)

Discovering whether a robot is right for your application has never been easier following the launch of ABB’s new Augmented Reality viewer, which has been added to ABB’s powerful PC-based RobotStudio offline programming software. The RobotStudio AR Viewer app can be used to test any (more...)

Fanuc has expanded its heavy payload M-900 six-axis robot series with the introduction of the long-reach M-900iB/330L. The M-900iB/330L benefits from a large working envelope of 3203mm x 3539mm, and a payload capacity of 330kg, to provide an effective solution for large part handling applications. (more...)

CKF Systems has designed, manufactured and installed a cutting-edge egg packing and palletising systems for one of the country’s largest egg suppliers at two of its sites. The systems have proved themselves already by running smoothly and dramatically improving the customer’s operations. (more...)

The demand for a high accuracy stages can now be met with Intellidrives’ integrated XY-rotary system that addresses the needs of scanning microscopy, wafer and printed circuit board inspection, semiconductor manufacturing and many others where precision is important. Very precise fine (more...)

Fanuc has expanded its range of handling robots with the introduction of the M-10iD/8L and M-20iD/12L models. The two new robots are the handling versions of Fanuc's Arc Mate counterparts, characteristically exhibiting high performance in a compact design. Both benefit from fully integrated cable (more...)

A 3D quality inspection robot system, up to 10 times faster than Coordinated Measuring Machine (CMM) systems, can dramatically accelerate production by providing fast, accurate testing to make metrology easier and less time consuming. Capable of detecting defects of less than half the width of a (more...)

Cobots hold the promise of increasing the efficiency and quality of human work, bringing greater reliability, consistency and precision to a variety of manufacturing and assembly operations. However, do these potential benefits hold true for all users? Introduced only relatively recently, (more...)