Yaskawa Motoman Announces New Quick Ship Program for Pre-Configured Workcells

Yaskawa Motoman offers the widest range of standardized workcells for arc welding applications.

New Cost-Effective, High-Performance Gear Reducer from Shimpo Drives

The new Able VRB Gear Reducer is an excellent alternative for OEMs that need a cost-effective, high-performance gear reducer. The high-precision and torque handling capabilities are an ideal fit for packaging machinery, medical equipment, and robotic cell automation.

Inventables: The Hardware Store For Designers

Inventables has all kinds of interesting raw materials available for purchase in small quantities.  Materials include: Aluminum Foam Conductive Velcro Conductive Paint Temperature-Sensitive Glass etc.

High-speed Synchronization with EPOS3 70/10 EtherCAT Servo Drive

The digital positioning controller, EPOS3 70/10 EtherCAT, meets the highest demands in real-time positioning of synchronized multi-axis systems. Extremely compact in size, the EPOS3 possesses a wide nominal power supply voltage range from 11 to 70 VDC and delivers a continuous output current of 10 A, during acceleration and deceleration even up to 25 A.

Bishop-Wisecarver Introduces QuickTrak Linear Guides - 11/27/2012

QuickTrak is a modular kit-based platform of linear guide components and sub-assemblies that can be quickly installed on finished products and production equipment with ease.

Y Combinator Hardware Hackathon

From Upverter: Y Combinator has seen a huge increase in the number of hardware startups they fund. And so in an effort to encourage the renaissance and throw some gas on the fire, we are hosting a hardware hackathon. The focus is on getting like-minded hardware hackers into the same space, sharing ideas, designing hardware and ultimately creating more hardware startups. Want a taste of what goes on in a hardware hackathon? Read about Upverter's first ever hackathon in August 2012:  Day 1 , Day 2  and  the wrap up . We also held a  hardware hackathon at the Open Compute Summit  just this past month. If you’re hardware savvy and interested in starting a hardware startup, you should apply to come and hack with us! Want to start a startup?  Get funded by Y Combinator. Whe​n February 23rd, 2013, 10AM - 10PM Wher​e Y Combinator 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 map You can apply here .

ABB and andyRobot Develop Standard RoboScreen Packs

Function packages feature five robot and screen size combinations, dedicated software and concert style mixing board for simplified control

Robot Launchpad

Persistence is at the heart of every successful robotics startup, and a lot of pivoting. So the faster you can move from prototyping into customer development, market research and investor meetings, the more likely you are to find a good product/market fit.

Automate and ProMat 2013: Crowds chose collaborative cage-free robots

Industrial Robots; Robot Arms; Cameras, Scanners and Vision Systems; Collaborative Cage-free Robots; Mobile Robots; Robot Operating Systems; Warehousing and Materials Handling; New Technologies, and Jobs

RASC-AL Exploration Robo-ops Competition

Robo-ops gives students an opportunity to engineer a solution to a future NASA mission and be a part of the NASA team. They get to compete and network with other students in their field and have fun while doing it all. NASA gets innovative ideas for its future missions and exposure to some brilliant talent that could soon be part of the NASA team. We all get smarter from this.

Wave Glider - Self Propelled ASV

Propulsion is provided by the conversion of wave energy to thrust. When the float rides a wave, spring-loaded wings on the propulsion unit pivot, but not too much, to mechanically convert that up-and-down motion into horizontal motion.

Interviews from Automate 2013

We contacted several presenters from Automate 2013 in order to get a consensus of the conference as well as to give them the opportunity to pass on their experiences and impressions of the industry as a whole. Here are their responses.

Maritime Community Pushes Forward Despite Budget Fears

The oil and gas industry, like the Department of Defense, is looking for new technology that can help make it more efficient and effective.

UAS Test Site Competition to Kick Off this Month, FAA Official Says

Numerous states are vying to host the sites, which will demonstrate how unmanned aircraft can fly in the National Airspace System safely.

AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Program Review 2013

Sequestration, Doing More With Less Both Keys on Ground Day

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Harmonic Drive - Coming Soon! Integrated Actuators with EtherCAT®!

Harmonic Drive - Coming Soon! Integrated Actuators with EtherCAT®!

The IDT Series is a family of compact actuators with an integrated servo drive with CANopen® and, coming soon, EtherCAT® . With high torque, exceptional accuracy and repeatability, these actuators eliminate the need for an external drive and greatly simplify cabling.