€8,000 Scara arm will help to ‘democratise’ robots
23 November 2015 A French start-up company has developed a Scara robot that it is selling for prices starting at around €8,000 ($8,500), rather than the €20,000 typical… Read More
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Robots will show off their moves at the 2016 Drives Show
19 November 2015 Next April’s Drives & Controls Show in Birmingham, UK, will, for the first time, include a dedicated area where some of the latest industrial robot… Read More
UK start-up will sell six-axis collaborative robot for $4,600
19 October 2015 A British start-up is developing a six-axis collaborative robot which it aims to sell for around £3,000 ($4,600). London-based Automata Technologies was set up earlier… Read More
Industrial robot sales set to double to 400,000 by 2018
1 October 2015 The number of industrial robots sold worldwide will almost double between 2014 and 2018 to reach around 400,000 machines a year, according to latest forecast… Read More
Omron buys the biggest US robot-maker for $200m
16 September 2015 The Japanese automation giant Omron is buying Adept, the largest American manufacturer of industrial robots, in a deal that values Adept at about $200m. Omron… Read More
Optimising robot moves can cut energy use by 40%
27 August 2015 Swedish researchers say that they can cut the energy consumed by industrial robots by up to 40% by using an algorithm that optimises the movements… Read More
Industrial robot revenues head above $40bn
26 August 2015 The global market for industrial robots will climb from $26.8bn in 2012 to reach $41.2bn by 2020, according to a new report from Allied Market… Read More
Yaskawa sets up robot JVs with Chinese appliance-maker
11 August 2015 The Japanese robotics and motion controls manufacturer, Yaskawa, is setting up two joint ventures with the Chinese domestic appliances giant, Midea, to produce robots in… Read More
Industrial robots have ‘contributed 10% to GDP growth’
6 August 2015 The economic benefits of industrial robots installed since the early 1990s have been similar to those of the railways in the 19th century, US highways in… Read More
Collaborative robotics market ‘will exceed $1bn by 2020’
7 July 2015 The collaborative robotics market will expand roughly tenfold between 2015 and 2020, soaring from $95m in 2015 to more than $1bn by 2020, according to… Read More
