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10/16/12 — Energid Technologies Corporation has been chosen to apply its ActinTM software to robotic systems being developed by AREVA Corporation for servicing and inspection of nuclear power plants.As robotics technology continues to advance, potentially dangerous manual servicing and inspection missions are being replaced by robotics. AREVA is at the forefront of…
10/09/12 — Do as I do, not as I say. That is the idea behind a new way to give instructions to robots. Neil Dantam at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and colleagues are developing a system in which robots learn by example. Instead of programming a robot to carry out a…
10/02/12 — It's sunrise at Hayden Farms in Pasco. Chatter of birds nearby. But on Wednesday morning, wheels, tubes and exhaust cram the orchard.It's called the DBR. It stands for Dietrich, Brown and Rasch, the last names of the engineers of the machine. It's robo-farmer of sorts. A newly-engineered machine to assist…
09/25/12 — Does this headline look familiar? While the international robotics community ogles over the unveiling of Rethink Robotics’ new line of compact, inexpensive, easily programmable robots, the Danish-based Universal Robots brings its six-axis robotic arms—boasting the same revolutionary qualities—to the U.S. for a very public show-and-tell. The UR5 robotic arm manufactured by Universal…
09/20/12 — “We roll up to a factory, and 45 minutes after we arrive, the robot is on the floor doing useful work.” —Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics BBJ & WSJ—Intended to support a rebirth of domestic production for U.S. manufacturers, says its creator, Rodney…
09/18/12 — RMT Robotics®, a Cimcorp Oy company announces the development of its new layer picking system using its state-of-the-art, patent-pending robotic layer picking tool. Using a combination of vacuum and clamping technology, the new tooling has the capability of picking 95 percent of consumer products on the market today including corrugate…
09/18/12 — Hexapod parallel positioners are provided in ranges such as classical articulated / stacked multi-axis positioners. Each actuator can be integrated to other actuators or motion axes in a serial configuration. All six actuators work in sync in a hexapod positioner, impacting common motion output platform. This design principle enhances robustness,…
09/12/12 — CHEP, a leader in pallet and container pooling services, announced today that it has selected the Universal Robotics Spatial Vision Inspection (SVI) solution for the company’s automated 3D pallet inspection. CHEP issues, collects, conditions and reissues over 300 million pallets and containers every year. By identifying pallet defects accurately and…
09/05/12 — Could the solution to solar efficiency lie in robotics? California startup QBotix Inc. thinks so. In their test setup, a small robot moves around a solar panel array on a monorail, making slight adjustments to panel angles in order to more efficiently track the sun through both the days and…
08/28/12 — RoboBusiness 2012 is only 7 weeks away. Save your seat today…and save up to $600! "Rethink's goal is simple: that its cheap, easy-to-use, safe robot will be to industrial robots what the personal computer was to the mainframe computer or the iPhone was to the traditional phone." —Thomas L.…
08/23/12 — Award-winning Christchurch start-up company Invert Robotics has begun earning revenue from its wall-climbing robot. The world-class cutting tech company has inspected Westland Dairy’s tall milk powder drying vats in its first major contract. Invert Robotics was founded as a result of research performed at the University of Canterbury (UC), the…
08/21/12 — MicroStrain,Inc. of Williston, Vt. is pleased to announce it has agreed to the terms of a business acquisition of its assets by LORD Corporation, headquartered in Cary, N.C. “We’ve worked on a number of innovative joint development projects with LORD for several years now,” said Steve Arms, founder and CEO of MicroStrain.…
08/14/12 — When businesses discuss building the factory or warehouse of the future, you can bet that robots are involved. Fundamentally, those robots must possess autonomy, flexibility and safety to be a worthwhile investment. But add mobility to that equation, and you have the true future of industrial robotics. Whether a mobile…
08/13/12 — When Apple comes home—and it will happen sooner than anyone, even Apple, would ever imagine—we’ll need to thank the triumvirate of rising wages overseas, automation and robots, especially robots. Rising wages and automation alone might make Apple move to India or Africa, but not re-shore itself stateside. The robot, however,…
08/02/12 — With Euro financial chaos raging on, China’s industrial engines slowing, and BRIC countries feeling a decided fiscal drag, the U.S., even with its economic rebound still limping along, is looking more and more like a manufacturing renaissance unfolding…ever so slowly. After a decade of globalization, during which the U.S. witnessed…
07/25/12 — Grimsby, Ontario, Canada – RMT Robotics, a Cimcorp Oy company and the manufacturer and integrator of the ADAM autonomous mobile robot (AMR), is pleased to celebrate seven years of ADAM’s proven industry success as a tire handling solution. Since July of 2005, ADAM has maximized the efficiency of green tire transport…
07/25/12 — Pittsburgh, PA—Seegrid Corporation announced the appointment of Michael M. Hasco, as Chief Growth Officer. According to Seegrid CEO Anthony Horbal, “Appointing Hasco as chief growth officer was a strategic move by Seegrid. His proven success as a global sales executive will strengthen the Seegrid management team for our global presence…
07/19/12 — Optima Control Solutions Ltd, an independent automation company, was approached by KUKA Robots and charged with the task of installing and programming a robot solution to integrate with the paper mill’s existing machine control system. The mill’s automation engineer reported: “We had complete confidence in the company’s expertise when KUKA…
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