Interact Analysis expects shipments of machine-integrated robots to grow steadily by 9.2% in 2024, despite slow growth in industrial automation.

Binder says its new M8 12-pin connector product is compact, making it suitable for automation, metrology, and other industrial applications. 

University of Bristol researchers have developed dexterous robotic hands using cell phone cameras embedded in gripper fingers to image the interaction between fingertips and objects.

Binder USA says its SMD connectors can provide automated processing for manufacturing processes, robotics, sensors, and actuators.

Robots at Northeastern University run the technological gamut, from NASA research to systems that could help the seafood industry.

The HPF hollow shaft gear unit series from Harmonic Drive is suitable for a range of industrial applications, including robotics.

The Denali Series by Celera Motion are compact, ultra-fast servo drives created for a variety of service robots, surgical robots, and more.

Even a simple robot like FieldPrinter has hundreds of components, each of which can have unpredictable failure modes.

1000Base-T1 is designed to operate over a single twisted-pair copper cable supporting an effective data rate of 1 Gbit/sec in each direction simultaneously.

Nidec, the Japanese electric motor maker, announced that it acquired PAMA, an Italian machine tool manufacturer.

The U.S. Army and MIT are exploring how metamaterials can help form modular robotic building blocks for transforming robots that can be reconfigured into different shapes and functions.

Fictiv’s three-part engineering Masterclass series is intended to show engineers how to minimize CNC machining challenges and design parts for optimal production quality, speed, and cost.

Vanderbilt University researchers say they have determined that a wearable exosuit they designed can relieve fatigue by 29% to 47% in lower back muscles.

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Sony Corp. have developed an origami-inspired manipulator, the mini-RCM, which could make robotic surgery more portable.

Brad Porter, the Amazon vice president leading the company’s robotics initiatives, describes how employees have continued to develop innovative systems while working from home.

Roboticists at UC San Diego have developed a method using magnetic localization and a neural network to more cheaply and accurately track flexible medical robots than conventional radiation-based methods.

Researchers at Georgia Tech have combined limbs that can move up and down with loose wheels for innovative gaits to help propel a NASA rover that could conduct exploration in the sandy hills of the moon or Mars.

The Engine has invested in RISE Robotics, which is developing electric and mechanical systems to displace hydraulics and reduce energy consumption.

The new Gecko SP gripper from OnRobot applies the award-winning technology to smaller objects such as printed circuit boards.

The certified URCap software provides a unified interface for the new versions of OnRobot’s RG2, RG6, and VG10 grippers with Universal Robots’ cobots.

Robotic furniture startup Bumblebee Spaces has joined Toyota AI Ventures portfolio of service robots along with its Series A funding.

Robotic assembly of large structures, made possible with swarms of relatively simple robots and construction materials organized like building blocks, could change how aircraft and buildings are constructed, said MIT researchers.