Scara robot has the highest payload in its class
29 November 2023 ABB Robotics has completed its industrial Scara robot portfolio with a new robot that, it claims, offers the highest payload of any Scara machine in… Read More
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Safety is a priority for contactor-free elevator drives
28 November 2023 The Taiwanese automation supplier Delta Electronics has announced a new generation of elevator drives with safety as a top priority, offering built-in safe torque off… Read More
UK developer of rare-earth-free motors wins £23m of funding
21 November 2023 The British electric motor developer Advanced Electric Machines (AEM) has secured £23m of new investment which it will use to scale up production, establish a… Read More
Siemens simplifies motion engineering to tackle skills crisis
18 November 2023 At the recent SPS exhibition in Germany Siemens announced several software and hardware developments designed to make motion programming easier and thus to tackle the… Read More
Tech creates bridge from motor switches to digital world
18 November 2023 At the recent SPS show in Germany, ABB demonstrated a technology that offers a simple way to digitise AF contactors and motor starters and provide… Read More
Next-gen multi-core motion control avoids limitations
18 November 2023 Beckhoff has unveiled a new generation of its TwinCat motion control technology that takes advantage of the latest multi-core and multitasking processing technologies to overcome… Read More
AI camera chip allows overlays in live video streams
13 November 2023 The German machine vision specialist IDS has collaborated with Ambarella, a developer of consumer visual AI products, to produce a new class of intelligent industrial… Read More
Scottish researchers’ slice of £117m funds will make robots safer
1 November 2023 Robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) experts at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh have secured funding for a training centre to help make robots… Read More
Motor sensor is low-cost rival to magnetic and optical encoders
26 October 2023 The Japanese semiconductor specialist Renesas has developed an inductive motor position sensing technology to rival the costly magnetic and optical encoders commonly used in motor… Read More
UK-developed elevator drive ‘will change the industry’
25 October 2023 The Welsh drives-maker, Invertek has developed a product that, it believes, will redefine elevator motor controls. It describes its new Optidrive Elevator Core variable-speed drive… Read More
