AMRs and AGVs will push ULV drives sales to $3.1bn by 2027
3 May 2023 Global sales of ultra-low voltage (under 60V) drives are set to soar from $753m in 2021 to $3.1bn by 2027 – a CAGR of 25.9%… Read More
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3 May 2023 
Tech combines the best of optical and magnetic encoders
9 June 2022 Nidec has developed a technology for detecting the position of motor rotors that, it claims, combines the high accuracy of optical encoders with the low… Read More
Siemens teams up with UK firms to offer bespoke AGVs
25 February 2022 Siemens has joined forces with two UK engineering companies, Parmley Graham and AR Controls, to produce bespoke AGVs (automated guided vehicles) for a variety of… Read More
Modular machine-tending cells can cut labour costs by 90%
2 November 2021 ABB has launched a family of modular, robotic machine-tending cells for the metals industry that offer a variety of ways of loading and unloading machines,… Read More
3D collision-avoiding sensor works like bat echolocation
18 October 2021 A German start-up has developed a 3D collision-avoidance sensor that mimics a bat’s echolocation techniques. Munich-based Toposens, founded in 2015, says that existing sensor technologies… Read More
MTC trial will allow manufacturers to explore benefits of 5G
9 February 2021 The Coventry-based Manufacturing Technology Centre is to trial a private 5G network aimed at helping manufacturers to boost their productivity. The network will be installed… Read More
AGV is the ‘first’ to use vision-based navigation
7 August 2020 Nidec-Shimpo has announced what it claims is the first AGV (automatic guided vehicle) to use vision-based navigation. It says that its S-Cart-V AGV can be… Read More
Flexible safety network boosts cobot and AGV productivity
25 February 2019 The German sensor-maker Sick has developed an intelligent safety network for collaborative robots (cobots) and AGVs (automated guided vehicles) which, it says, will deliver flexibility… Read More
AGV transports robot arm from one task to the next
13 September 2018 Mitsubishi Electric and the British AGV (automatically guided vehicle) specialist Mirage have released more details of the mobile robot system that they demonstrated at the… Read More
PLC safety concept ‘can save $300,000 a year’
2 February 2017 A new concept for safety PLCs can distinguish between a real reaction to a hazard – when the machine must stop – and those that… Read More
