29 May 2024 Using robots can boost productivity. What’s less well-known is that they can also help companies to improve their workplace environments, and to attract and retain… Read More
2 May 2024 A flurry of recent announcements suggest that humanoid robots are starting to make the transition from laboratories to factories and warehouses, driven increasingly by AI. Read More
2 May 2024 The global market for 3D machine vision systems is growing more than twice as fast as the total vision market. Jonathan Sparkes, a research analyst… Read More
1 May 2024 There are now around about 3.9 million robots in use around the world. Marina Bill, president of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), says that… Read More
26 February 2024 Germany’s SPS automation mega-show is showing signs of returning to its pre-pandemic scale, despite difficulties in its domestic industrial market. We look at some of… Read More
7 February 2023 After a three-year absence, the SPS automation exhibition returned to its Nuremberg venue last November. It might have been slightly smaller than before but it… Read More
5 February 2020 Last November’s SPS automation show in Nuremberg, Germany, was the 30th in the series and the first to drop the previous SPS IPC Drives title,… Read More
17 June 2019 An inescapable theme at this year’s Hannover Fair was the emergence of 5G as potential game-changer for industrial communications. The high-speed, low-latency technology could oust… Read More
5 February 2019 The annual SPS IPC Drives show in Germany is probably the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to developments in automation. We look at some of the… Read More
28 June 2018 Edge computing, the cloud and digital twins were among the dominant themes at this year’s Hannover Fair, the world’s largest industrial exhibition. But despite the… Read More
