2 January 2024 The German engineering plastics specialist igus has developed a humanoid hand gripper that allows its ReBeL family of low-cost collaborative robots (cobots) to take on… Read More
29 March 2022 Two US companies – the material-handling automation specialist Vecna Robotics and the pedestrian lift truck manufacturer Big Joe Forklifts – have joined forces to develop… Read More
27 July 2020 A Japanese-Israeli robotics joint venture that was created late last year before the Coronavirus pandemic had taken hold globally, has announced its first commercial products,… Read More
20 July 2020 Omron has announced a “defect detection” machine vision system which, it claims, is the first that can identify defects without learning samples. The system uses… Read More
23 April 2020 Cognex has announced what it describes as the world’s first industrial smart camera to be powered by deep learning. The self-contained In-Sight D900 embedded vision… Read More
15 June 2017 Pilz has come up with a package for measuring forces and pressures in accordance with ISO/TS 15066 to ensure the safety of human-robot collaborations (HRCs). Read More
24 April 2017 The German gripping systems specialist Schunk has won this year’s Hermes technology award at the Hannover Fair for an intelligent gripper for human-robot collaboration that… Read More
7 July 2016 At the recent Automatica show in Germany, Schunk unveiled what it claims is the first robotic gripper capable of interacting and communicating directly with humans,… Read More
4 March 2016 A US research organisation called Madlab.CC is developing software that allows humans to interact with industrial robots using intuitive gestures. The Quipt software uses motion… Read More
23 February 2015 By 2025, the widespread adoption of advanced industrial robots will boost manufacturing productivity by up to 30% in many industries, and cut labour costs by… Read More
