Collaborative Robots

Collaborative robotic provider, Agile Robots, closes a $220M Series C round – to enable the company to extend its product and expand its global market reach.

Made4CNC launches its first product: an automated CNC door opener that works with any robot for machine tending.

Elite Robots closes $27M funding to expand the engineering team and open sales into new regions.

The system uses a long-reach manipulator, with a three-axis robotic arm at the end, which works with a human operator to increase their dexterity and flexibility.

Collaborative Robotics Week (Sept. 7-10) will provide a snapshot of the state of the sector, including emerging capabilities, powerful enabling technologies, as well as new business models enabled by cobots.

eCapture launches a VGA quality, stereoscopic 3D depth sensing camera as the eCapture G53.

Rapid’s solution is the Rapid Machine Operator (RMO), a cobot specially designed and priced for machine operation.

Flexxbotics currently focuses on collaborative robots from UR and recently expanded into Europe.

The ATX West show is next week. Check out our show guide with a curated list of robotic vendors to visit while at the show.

Learn how UR+ approved products are tested and certified, and how the UR+ program is driving market growth into an increasing number of applications and supporting faster system integrations.

Ryu is expected to enhance technological collaboration with the parent company’s new business areas, while initiating more customer-oriented businesses to expand collaborative robot applications and advance robotics technology.

Led by Mobile Industrial Robots and Universal Robots, the group’s revenue increased 15% Q/Q and 57% Y/Y.

Universal Robots also expanded its network of ActiNav Solution Providers, a vetted and select group of systems integrators.

The Robotics Week series consists of three digital events focused on autonomous mobile robots, cobots, and robotics engineering.

KUKA releases version 4.0 of the KUKA.sim virtual robot simulation software. The release includes advanced programming features along with new safety simulation capabilities.

The market had a global valuation of $475 million in 2020, which will expand to $600 million in 2021 and $8 billion in 2030, with a projected CAGR of 32.5%.

Leading cobot experts will review most critical issues for the safe operation of cobots, including standards efforts, risk assessments, and safety technologies.

Vention announces recent product partnerships with collaborative robot tool maker OnRobot, along with the addition of the FANUC CRX cobot to the Vention product line.

With the ability to now handle 27.55 lb, the UR10e will be opened up to applications such as palletizing, machine tending, and packaging. The price of the UR10e won’t change.

Some new features enabled by ROS 2 include decreased latency, improved security, and more flexibility with middleware configuration.

If the first quarter of 2021 is a sign of things to come, it’s going to be a great year for Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR). Both companies are owned by Teradyne, which saw its industrial automation group earn $80 million in Q1 revenue. This represents a 33% increase year-over-year and 21%…

ActiNav combines real-time autonomous motion control, UR cobots, vision and sensor systems to automate bin picking tasks or machine tending applications.