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EIT digital launches "Robot IoT Interface" activity

04/11/17, 08:27 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation

EIT Digital is pleased to announce the launch of "Robot IoT Interface", a new activity being developed with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Poitiers-based startup Agileo Automation with the goal of enabling different kind of robots and machines to connect to different cloud platforms.

Mouser Electronics Named Top Global High Service Distributor for 4th Straight Year

04/11/17, 05:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Mouser Electronics

Global Distributor Also Takes Top NPI, Customer Growth Awards

ABB Announces that SafeMove2 is Now Available on the IRB 1200

04/11/17, 05:42 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | ABB Inc.

ABBs smallest material and machine tool handling robot now available with SafeMove2

Harmonic Drive LLC Introduces 480V Actuator with IP65 Protection

04/11/17, 05:42 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Harmonic Drive LLC

Ideal for machine tool, packaging, and wash-down applications

Automate 2017 - HIT Robot Group Makes a Splash in its first U.S. Show at Automate 2017

04/10/17, 02:55 PM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation

Strong interest from international exhibitors and visitors proves HRG's position as a premier robot manufacturer and business partner in the Chinese market

Festo Showcases Process Control Solutions at Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America

04/10/17, 01:51 PM | Factory Automation | Festo

Festo products ensure consistency, quality, and cleanliness batch to batch. (Festo BrewExpo Booth #2948)

GENERAL MOTORS HONORS COMAU AS WINNER OF COVETED SUPPLIER INNOVATION AWARD.

04/10/17, 08:41 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Comau

Comau was named one of eight 2016 Innovation Award winners for creating a flexible robotic body assembly framing system for pre-production operations, based on the use of Comaus standard products that have been adapted by General Motors.

A problem that keeps warehouse work from being fully automated has just been solved

04/10/17, 05:49 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Automate 2017, Pick and place

Sarah Kessler for Quartz: A startup called RightHand robotics recently began piloting technology that automates a task robots have previously struggled to master: recognizing and picking up items from boxes.

FANUC Introduces R-30iB Plus Robot Controller

04/10/17, 05:30 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Fanuc America

FANUC will introduce its new R-30iB Plus robot controller at the annual FANUC Open House event on April 10-13 at its headquarters in Japan.

Industry 4.0 Data Brings You Closer To The Customer

04/06/17, 09:47 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | IoT automation | Clearpath Robotics

Industry 4.0 will significantly alter the traditional model of pushing products to market, instead creating a more collaborative environment between goods producers and their customers.

Amazon's Robot War Is Spreading

04/06/17, 05:41 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | logistics, Pick and place

Patrick Clark and Kim Bhasin for Bloomberg Technology: It was Amazon that drove Americas warehouse operators into the robot business. Quiet Logistics, which ships apparel out of its Devens, Mass., warehouse, had been using robots made by a company called Kiva Systems. When Amazon bought Kiva in 2012, Quiet hired scientists.

Tend Introduces in.control™: The First Smart Cloud Robotics Platform for Remote Control, Monitoring and Analysis of Production Lines

04/06/17, 05:21 AM | Factory Automation | Tend

New Manufacturing Software Features a Mobile Interface to Control Any Robot, Tending Any Machine, From Any Location

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Launches Redundant Control System

04/05/17, 02:50 PM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. / MEAU

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. has paired its proven iQ-R Series integrated control platform with a redundant function module to create a redundant process control system for applications that require highly reliable control.

Automate 2017 - Harmonic Drive LLC Introduces 480V Actuator with IP65 protection

04/05/17, 02:07 PM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Harmonic Drive LLC

Ideal for machine tool, packaging, and wash-down applications

VadaTech expands the DAQ Series™ product range in MTCA.4

04/05/17, 02:05 PM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation

VadaTech, a leading manufacturer of integrated systems, embedded boards, enabling software and application-ready platforms, announces expansion of the DAQ Series™ product range in MTCA.4.

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