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.
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?
‘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.
Automation creating, not stealing, jobs in US
18 January, 2013The Association for Advancing Automation has expressed disappointment in 60 Minutes’ portrayal of the automation industry, in a segment entitled ‘March of the Machines’ in the United States.
China to lead the world in industrial robot production
14 January, 2013Chinese industrial production has increased at a CAGR of approximately 14.5% over the past decade, and the country’s demand for automation has followed suit, IMS Research says.
Adept Technology SmartController EX robot motion controller
02 November, 2012Adept designed the SmartController EX for use with Cobra s-series SCARA robots, Viper six-axis robots, Quattro parallel robots and Python Linear Modules.
Adept Viper s1700D materials handling robot
29 August, 2012Adept Technology has introduced the Adept Viper s1700D, a 6-axis robot designed for material handling, machine tending, packaging, cutting and assembly.
ABB IRB 1520ID arc welding robot
10 August, 2012The IRB 1520ID arc welding robot has integrated process dressing technology, in which all power cables and necessary gas and pressurised air hoses are integrated into the arm of the robot.
ABB IRB120T robot
29 June, 2012The IRB120T is a variant of the IRB120 robot that reduces cycle times by up to 25%.
MIT researchers develop robotic assistants for factory workers
18 June, 2012Wish you had a robot to help with repetitive tasks at work? Researchers at MIT are working on it.
ABB PalletPack 460 pre-engineered palletising package
21 May, 2012PalletPack 460 is a pre-engineered package of robotic palletising components featuring the IRB 460 robot designed specifically for the high-speed, end-of-processing-line palletising.
ABB delivers 200,000th robot
07 May, 2012ABB has delivered its 200,000th robot worldwide, since introducing the IRB 6, the first all-electric robot on the market, in 1974. The company held a ceremony to celebrate the milestone at Yingkou, China, where the new IRB 6640 six-axis robot was delivered.
ABB panel-mounted IRC5 controllers
19 March, 2012ABB now offers a panel-mounted controller variant for larger ABB robots, providing system integrators with easier and more flexible integration solutions.
ABB IRB 120 cleanroom robot
30 January, 2012ABB has launched an ISO 5 (Class 100) cleanroom version of its smallest multipurpose industrial robot.
ABB custom robotic motor and gear unit packages
22 August, 2011 byABB is offering motor and gear unit packages that enable robot integrators to create custom solutions for workpiece positioners, robot carriers, track motions, servo guns and indexing conveyers. The motor and gear units are designed to optimise cost-efficiency and performance, and to simplify integration and operation.
