2 September 2024 A new report from the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult predicts what the country’s manufacturing sector could look like in the future if it was… Read More
29 August 2024 China is planning to use robots to drive a new round of industrial transformation. The decision was made at a recent meeting of the National… Read More
22 August 2024 Olis Robotics, the US developer of diagnostics systems for industrial cells, has extended its capabilities to include PLC monitoring, creating what it describes as… Read More
21 August 2024 A Birmingham automation specialist which was a pioneer of plug-and-play robotics has secured £350,000 from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund II to help it meet… Read More
15 August 2024 A UK start-up which claims it can slash the costs of implementing AMR (autonomous mobile robot) and AGV (automatic guided vehicle) installations in warehouses, has… Read More
8 August 2024 The Canadian 3D scanning and inspection developer LMI Technologies is buying the US robotic guidance specialist Liberty Robotics for an undisclosed sum. Michigan-based… Read More
7 August 2024 Soft Robotics, the US developer of soft gripper, 3D vision and AI technologies, has sold its gripper business to Germany’s Schmalz Group for an… Read More
2 August 2024 Beckhoff has released a generic library that provides robot functions for PLC users. Called TcRobot (TwinCat Robot), it is an open-source library that simplifies… Read More
2 August 2024 There are still concerns about introducing robots into factories. Eric Halvorson, marketing technology manager for automation and control at DigiKey, argues that the impacts… Read More
2 August 2024 A £1.5m research project at the University of York will develop and test the use of robots and other autonomous systems to inspect and maintain… Read More
