Factory automation > Robotics

Business booming for KUKA despite difficult world situation

12 August, 2022

Strong demand for automation worldwide has seen robot orders received reach their highest level in KUKA’s history.


ABB launches fast 5-axis delta robot for lightweight work

10 August, 2022

ABB says its FlexPicker IRB 365 delta robot is designed for reorientating packaged lightweight products in the food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries.


Fanuc DR-3iB/6 Stainless food-grade delta robot

03 August, 2022

Fanuc has released the DR-3iB/6 Stainless, the company's first stainless steel food-grade delta robot for picking and packing primary food products.


Beckhoff introduces modular robot system

18 July, 2022

Beckhoff has introduced a modular robot concept, through a modular system from which the right robot kinematics can be put together flexibly to suit the application.


Shaping future production landscapes

27 June, 2022

The three key factors of people, technology and adaptation will form the basis of future successful production environments.


Aerobotix and ASA announce partnership on hypersonic missiles

24 June, 2022

Robotic integrators on opposite sides of the world team up to solve missile manufacturing challenges.


Mobile Industrial Robots MiR1350 autonomous mobile robot

24 June, 2022

The MiR1350 offers a high payload of up to 1350 kg for transportation of heavy items.


Touch-sensitive e-skin helps robots learn from feeling pain

24 June, 2022

Engineers developed the artificial skin with a processing system based on synaptic transistors, which mimics the brain's neural pathways in order to learn.


Universal Robots goes big

24 June, 2022

Universal Robots has added a 20 kg industrial cobot to its range.


Kawasaki and Realtime Robotics add automation to robot programming

15 June, 2022

Kawasaki Robotics and Realtime Robotics have announced a collaboration to automate the programming, deployment and control of Kawasaki’s industrial robots.


Festo announces a pneumatic collaborative robot

26 May, 2022

Festo has unveiled what it describes as "the first pneumatic collaborative robot", saying it marks a "new era in human–robot collaboration".


ABB launches robotic depalletising solution

26 May, 2022

The ABB Robotic Depalletizer is a solution for handling complex depalletising tasks in the logistics, e-commerce, healthcare and consumer packaged goods industries.


A guide to collaborative robot safety

16 May, 2022

Strategies for ensuring safe operation in collaborative applications.


Manufacturing COVID-19 rapid diagnostic tests

11 May, 2022

In an Australian manufacturing success story, Ellume has automated the high-volume production of rapid COVID-19 home tests using the latest technologies.


Monash University opens new robotics research facility

03 May, 2022

The Monash University Faculty of Engineering has announced that it has launched a new world-class robotics research facility.


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