Robotics and Automation - Articles, Stories & Interviews
How to Choose the Right NDT Methods for Robotics Manufacturing
With so many NDT options available, the best one depends on the specific materials and functions in question. As a result, it is often most helpful to vary methods between components.
Upgrade Your Mezzanine Flooring While Avoiding Timely and Costly Replacement
Mezzanine floors are important in many facilities. They provide extra space for storage or work without taking up more ground space. However, they often face heavy use from equipment and people. Over time, this can cause the floor to wear down.
Robot-Based Shelf Monitoring Cameras for Retail Operation Efficiency
Robot-based shelf monitoring systems integrate camera systems with autonomous robotics. It helps ensure seamless inventory tracking, planogram compliance, and shelf organization. Discover how these camera-based systems work and their must-have imaging features.
Hybrid AMRs are a Game-Changer
They can operate seamlessly in unstructured environments and adapt to changing floor conditions. At particular points where highest precision is required, we revert to a QR code location.
How Autonomous AI Tackles Quality Control Costs
Quality is often viewed as a direct driver of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency in manufacturing. Yet some organizations fail to recognize the hidden costs of quality issues, significantly impacting the bottom line.
Battery inspection using machine vision – fast, reliable, and variable
Averna has developed a procedure for automating battery inspection for one of its customers. The fact that potential errors are extremely varied increases the complexity of the inspection process.
How to Achieve the Full Benefits of a Warehouse Digital Twin
A warehouse digital twin needs more than a highly capable WMS, it also needs a reliable technology to capture all the necessary inventory data, and this is where computer vision plays a pivotal role.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Stories
ABB introduces most compact, AI-powered AMR for payloads up to 1500 kg
AI-driven Visual SLAM and integrated load sensing enable stable and autonomous navigation, including in challenging conditions. AMR Studio 4.0 version simplifies deployment with no-code programming and real-time fleet management
DEEP Robotics' Wheel-legged Robot Helps Solve the "Three Highs" Challenge in UHV Substations
Combining the speed of wheeled robots with the agility of legged ones, it stands as the world's first industry-grade wheel-legged robot specifically engineered for complex terrains and hazardous environments.
DESTACO Unveils the eRDH Series Electric Parallel Gripper: The Future of Automated Handling
This latest addition to the DESTACO Robohand product line represents a significant leap forward in gripping technology, offering unparalleled precision, flexibility, and ease of use.
Robotics and Automation - News Headlines
Genesis AI Emerges From Stealth with $105M to Build Universal Robotics Foundation Model and Horizontal Platform for General-Purpose Physical AI
With funding co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, Genesis will develop breakthrough physical AI infrastructure to power the era of generalist robotics and automate all physical labor
GFT and NEURA Robotics create strategic partnership to Build Next Generation Software for Physical AI
GFT Brings Deep AI and Data Expertise to Cognitive Robotics
Teledyne FLIR OEM Unveils New Brand and Website to Strengthen Supply Chain and Accelerate Innovation in Infrared Imaging
Brand evolution cements Teledyne FLIR OEM as the strategic infrared imaging provider of choice for automotive, defense, professional, and uncrewed OEM applications.
DoorDash and Flytrex Launch Drone Delivery in Dallas-Fort Worth
Following a successful pilot, partnership offers all-day drone delivery and industry-leading carrying capacity
FANUC Introduces Enhanced, Next-Gen ROBOGUIDE Robot Simulation Software
The future of robot simulation is here, with the most advanced iteration of offline robot programming and simulation-FANUC's ROBOGUIDE V10-featuring more performance and significantly improved user experience.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Product
PI USA - Hexapods for 6-Axis Precision Automation
PI Hexapods simplify multi-axis alignment / positioning with a programmable pivot point, tool/work coordinate systems, virtual programming software.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Company
Piab Inc.
Piab provides smart solutions for the automated world, helping thousands of end users and machine producers in e-commerce logistics, food, pharma, automotive and other manufacturing industries to improve energy-efficiency, productivity and working environments. By leveraging the ongoing technological development in automation and robotics, and targeting high-growth segments and geographies, Piab's vision is to become the global leader in gripping and moving solutions.
