Robot brings Phar Lap back from the dead
05 November, 2013CSIRO is virtually bringing together the various pieces of Phar Lap that are spread across Australia and New Zealand using robotic technology.
Robotic welding cell helps overcome skills shortage
28 October, 2013 by Glenn Johnson, EditorToday there is a general lack of highly skilled welding labour in many markets around the world, including Australia. One way in which this problem can be mitigated is through the use of robotic welding, which is now in greater demand.
ABB Product Screen robot HMI
09 October, 2013The purpose of Product Screen is to bring about a cost-effective way for robot operators to interact with the robot directly from the FlexPendant.
Robots used to clean Sydney Harbour Bridge
26 July, 2013Two grit-blasting robots developed by UTS are being used to strip lead-based paint from the Sydney Harbour Bridge in preparation for the first repainting in the bridge’s history.
ABB IRB 360 FlexPicker with increased payload
04 July, 2013ABB has increased the IRB 360 FlexPicker’s top payload from 3 to 8 kg, allowing it to now pick up heavier items, handling up to 100 cycles per minute.
ABB IRB 1600 robot
13 June, 2013ABB has upgraded the IRB 1600 robot’s top payload from 8 to 10 kg, expanding the range of general industrial applications the IRB 1600 can serve.
Controlling robots with your thoughts
10 June, 2013Angel Perez Garcia can make a robot move exactly as he wants via the electrodes attached to his head.
Invasion of the banana robots
06 June, 2013While robots on banana farms may sound like a sci-fi movie plot, a University of Sydney robotics expert says this could be a reality in Australia within 10 years.
Industrial robot demo at NMW 2013
03 May, 2013ABB will showcase the IRB 2600 industrial robot in a plasma cutting demo cell using Hypertherm equipment at National Manufacturing Week (NMW) at stand 3517.
Competitors for international robotics competition announced
15 April, 2013More than 20 student teams from leading universities across Australia and New Zealand will demonstrate their engineering and mechatronics skills on an international platform in the 2013 National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition (NI ARC).
Cloud-computing platform for robots launched
08 April, 2013 by ETH ZürichResearchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots which allows robots connected to the internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage and communications infrastructure of modern data centres.
Robowaiter: Chinese robot restaurant opens
11 March, 2013Restaurants are increasingly resorting to gimmicks to set them apart from the crowd. A Chinese restaurateur has taken this concept up a notch, opening a restaurant that is staffed almost entirely by robots.
The advance of the robots: helping manufacturers become more competitive
06 March, 2013 by Glenn Johnson, EditorIndustrial robot technology has come a long way from the simple machines of the early ’60s and today offers more flexibility and cost-effectiveness than ever before. Can Australian manufacturing capitalise on the benefits?
Entries open for Gold Rush robotics competition
06 March, 2013National Instruments is giving university students across Australia and New Zealand the opportunity to demonstrate their engineering skills on an international platform in the third annual NI Autonomous Robotics Competition.
‘Robot’ electric car drives itself
20 February, 2013Robotic technology from Oxford University that enables a car to ‘drive itself’ for stretches of a route has been shown driving a Nissan Leaf electric car.
