Low-cost cobot resurfaces after two years of development
24 October 2017 In 2015, a London-based start-up called Automata announced that it had developed a six-axis collaborative robot called Eva that it was planning to sell for… Read More
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Festo and Huawei collaborate on smart 5G manufacturing
11 September 2017 The Chinese telecommunications and electronics giant Huawei has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the German pneumatics and automation supplier Festo to explore the use… Read More
Sensorless motor control system solves problems with others
19 July 2017 A German start-up company is marketing a sensorless technology for determining the position of rotors in electric motors that, it claims, overcomes problems with other… Read More
$25m investment brings LV switchgear to North America
15 March 2017 ABB has announced a family of low-voltage switchgear, motor control centres and panels which, it says, represent more than $25m of research and development investment… Read More
WEG unveils its first geared motors to be developed in-house
26 April 2016 The Brazilian motor-maker WEG has launched its first-ever range of geared motors using gearboxes designed in-house and carrying the WEG name. Read More
Operator terminal sales are growing slower than expected
29 March 2016 The global market for operator terminals was worth $2.4bn in 2014, and will expand to $2.9bn by 2019 – a CAGR of 3.5% – according… Read More
Low-cost concept takes Ethernet to the sensor level
1 March 2016 Innovasic, the US developer of industrial Ethernet silicon products, has demonstrated a “low-complexity” Ethernet concept designed to take Ethernet to the edge of industrial, building,… Read More
Vibration isolators can vary stiffness 100-fold in less than 10ms
23 February 2016 A Californian research-and-development organisation owned by Boeing and General Motors has developed an active variable-stiffness vibration isolator capable of 100-fold changes in stiffness and actuation… Read More
£1.7m project will use magnetic gears for marine propulsion
9 February 2016 Three UK companies are collaborating in a £1.7m project to develop compact, efficient electric drives for marine applications. Rolls-Royce, the magnetic gear developer Magnomatics, and… Read More
Vibration sensor targets low-speed applications
29 January 2016 The British vibration monitoring specialist, Sensonics, has developed a sensor specifically designed to monitor vibrations on slow-speed machinery – typically rotating at less than 300… Read More
