ABB acquires pioneer in 3D inspection technology
17 February, 2017ABB has acquired Spanish start-up company NUB3D, a leading innovator of digital, 3D inspection and quality-control solutions.
The robots are definitely coming in 2017
13 February, 2017 by Steve Mackay, PhDSteve Mackay of IDC Technologies offers his suggestions on the top technology trends this year that will start to impact on engineering professionals working in the field of industrial automation.
Silver and bronze for Australian high school students in international space robotics race
30 January, 2017It was a dream come true for the Australian high school students who took control of NASA robots on the International Space Station last week, during the 2016/17 Zero Robotics Championship Final, run by the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies.
Imagining farming's robotic future
09 December, 2016Global crop protection specialist ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company SwarmFarm Robotics have announced a joint arrangement to establish ADAMA as SwarmFarm's preferred global business partner.
Robot flies a Cessna
01 December, 2016Aurora advanced autonomy system demonstrated on a Diamond DA-42, Cessna Caravan and Bell UH-1 helicopter.
Omron table tennis robot officially named world's 'first robot table tennis tutor'
11 November, 2016Omron Electronics has announced that its table tennis robot FORPHEUS has been officially named the world's 'first robot table tennis tutor' by Guinness World Records.
Robots everywhere: our one-armed friends in the factory are no longer alone
31 October, 2016 by Glenn Johnson, EditorRobots are no longer a feature only of manufacturing plants — they are moving into our everyday lives and are getting ready to make a dramatic impact.
igus Robolink D direct drive articulated joint kit
26 October, 2016The igus Robolink D components kit is a modular direct drive articulated joint kit designed to make it easier to configure and build a fully articulated plastic or aluminium robot arm with up to six degrees of freedom.
Robotic arms aid labelling and assembly
14 October, 2016Looking for an automated, cost-effective way to produce its customers' products, TCI invested in 6-axis industrial robots to perform labelling and assembly tasks.
Robots learn basic 'body language' to work together
30 September, 2016Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed a project in which robots are able to work cooperatively with each other.
Official standard for robot ethics released
26 September, 2016A new British standard on the ethical design of robots, which shows just how far robotics technology has come in recent years, and where it is heading, has been released.
Universal Robots certified for cleanroom applications
26 September, 2016After successful tests in accordance with VDI 2083 Part 9.1, the international industrial guideline concerning the various functions and measures of cleanroom technologies, Universal Robots' lightweight collaborative robot arms can now be implemented in controlled environments.
Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
14 September, 2016 by Sean Welsh, University of Canterbury*Automation has disrupted work for centuries. Two hundred years ago in Britain, the Luddites rose in rebellion, smashing the machines that made their weaving skills obsolete.
Infinite-build and robotic 3D additive manufacturing demonstrated by Stratasys
30 August, 2016Stratasys has announced it is previewing demonstrations of next-generation manufacturing technologies at IMTS 2016 as part of its SHAPING WHAT'S NEXT vision for manufacturing.
Octobot demonstrates autonomous soft robotics
26 August, 2016A self-powered, octopus-inspired, entirely soft robot has been demonstrated in Nature. Soft robots are resilient and have the ability to adapt to some natural environments better than conventional robots made of rigid materials. However, the autonomy of soft robots has been limited by the need for hard batteries or wires to fuel the bots, tethering them to a rigid power source.
