Robotics and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots
New tool from MIT CSAIL creates realistic virtual kitchens and living rooms where simulated robots can interact with models of real-world objects, scaling up training data for robot foundation models.
Robotic programming brings increased productivity and faster return on investment
"By optimizing robot programs, users can see a significant increase in productivity while generating more profit with their robot, using robots for short production runs, and delivering closest conformance to design." Carlos Marcovici, Robotmaster Authorized Partner, Brazil
How Collaborative Robots Improve Flexibility, Safety, and ROI
When we design cobot palletizing systems, we're often solving two different problems: limited floor space and the need to shift operations between lines throughout the day.
Giving Robots and Humans the Same Voice: Real-Time Escalation Systems for Smart Factories
By giving robots and humans the same voice, real-time escalation systems transform factories into agile, responsive, and collaborative environments. They ensure that no signal—machine or human—goes unheard.
High-Precision RV Reducers Perfectly Matched for Walking Robots
RV reducers provide extremely high rigidity, precision, and torque while maintaining a compact size and exceptional reliability, making them an ideal match for the demanding requirements of walking robot joints in terms of load capacity, impact resistance, and precision.
Conveyor Application Challenges to Consider: Scalability, Expansion, Automation, and Integration
Designing a conveyor system that overcomes common challenges like scalability, expansion, automation, and integration is possible with the right manufacturer. Here are 5 ways you can solve your application challenges with conveyor design.
The Emergence of Mechatronic Subsystems and Their Importance in Product Deployment
A mechatronic subsystem is a fully integrated functional unit that combines mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, and control elements into a single pre-engineered solution.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Stories
Improving AGV efficiencies with updated battery technologies
AGV-powered sectors like eCommerce and pharmaceuticals have set the pace for electric adoption, cutting emissions while streamlining operations. Yet, legacy batteries, whether lead-acid’s sluggish charging or Li-ion’s trade-offs in speed, cost, or size, limit progress.
SwarmFarm Raises $30M AUD to Untether Farm Productivity from Machine Size
By designing autonomy from the ground up — not as a bolt-on feature, but as a fully integrated platform — SwarmFarm gives farmers the ability to scale productivity without scaling machine size.
Beyond the Humanoid Hype: Why Collaborative Mobile Robots Are the Real Factory Floor Revolution
Collaborative mobile robots are already delivering measurable results for companies across a variety of industries, and they’re fulfilling promises that the sci-fi-esque robots can only dream of one day tackling.
Robotics and Automation - News Headlines
Trust Automation to Showcase Counter-UAS Solutions at AUSA Annual Meeting
At the core of Trust's C-UAS offering is the Government collaborated Small-Unmanned Air Defense System (SUADS), which provides both fixed-site protection — such as Air Force base defense operations — and rapidly deployable defense for key assets and units in combat zones.
Electromate Adds Kollmorgen Essentials™ Servo Motion System to Its Product Lineup
The Kollmorgen Essentials line combines servo motors, drives, and single-cable connectivity into an optimized package designed for industrial automation, packaging, material handling, and warehouse systems. By pre-configuring key axis configurations and standardizing interfaces, the Essentials solution helps to reduce development time, simplify procurement, and shorten deployment.
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Drone Fleet Management Platform Dronedesk Records 2 Millionth Flight Minute
Industry-leading operations platform reaches major milestone, highlighting explosive growth in professional drone sector
Allient Advances Drone Market Solutions
Leverages global reach and proven track record to serve growing worldwide drone industry
Robotics and Automation - Featured Product
Palladyne IQ - Unlocking new frontiers for robotic performance.
Palladyne IQ is a closed-loop autonomy software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to provide human-like reasoning capabilities for industrial robots and collaborative robots (cobots). By enabling robots to perceive variations or changes in the real-world environment and adapt to them dynamically, Palladyne IQ helps make robots smarter today and ready to handle jobs that have historically been too complex to automate.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Company
ResinDek / Cornerstone Specialty Wood Products
As the manufacturer of ResinDek® panels, we have been at the forefront of testing and innovating flooring panels for the Material Handling Industry since 1994. In 2007, we began providing ResinDek panels for automated warehouse distribution robots. Much of our initial research and development occurred with Automated Guided Vehicles. In the last decade, we have provided a variety of ResinDek engineered flooring products to numerous Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) manufacturers for their testing labs. As a result, millions of square feet of ResinDek panels are in service worldwide with robotic traffic in distribution centers, warehouses, microfulfillment centers, and retail environments.
