CHICAGO — At Automate 2019 here this week, Epson Robots announced three different products designed to make industrial automation easier to use. The company said that its VT6L six-axis robot, IntelliFlex parts-feeding system, and four new models in the LS SCARA series are intended to bring precision and affordability to robotics users of all sizes.…

PHD Inc. and YRG Inc. will be exhibiting at Automate 2019. Automate takes place April 8-11, 2019, at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. Please visit us in Booth 7320. In addition to its traditional pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric actuators designed for industrial automation, PHD will show both the UR5e and the UR5 from Universal…

CARSON, Calif. — Epson Robots, the No. 1 SCARA robot manufacturer in the world, yesterday announced it signed FPE Automation Inc., a full-service, award-winning, stocking distributor of premier components for industry, as an official distributor for the full line of Epson Robots automation products. This includes Epson SCARA, 6-Axis, and Linear Module robots, as well as integrated solutions…

According to a market research report by Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies entitled Trends in Food Processing Operations, half of the companies surveyed will be increasing their level of automation over the next three to five years. Despite this, many manufacturers admit they don’t know where to start. Here, Nigel Smith, CEO of industrial…

Material handling is one of the most labor-intensive and expensive aspects of manufacturing. Assembling a pair of Nikes, for example, requires up to 40 pieces of material to be stacked and heated to create the shoe upper, which is the flexible part that sits on top of your foot. It can take a human worker…

CIMTEC Automation LLC, experts in high performance industrial technology and automation, and Epson Robots, the No. 1 SCARA robot manufacturer in the world, today announced they are expanding their relationship making CIMTEC an official Epson Certified Repair Center. The partnership will extend beyond the current scope of selling new Epson Robots and automation products to…

Epson Robots will be showcasing unique, innovative, high precision robotics setups designed for maximum efficiency and productivity for a wide variety of applications in factory automation at the Automation Technology show, ATX West. Visit Epson at the Anaheim Convention Center — Booth 4109 —  February 6 to 8, 2018. The showcase will feature the new…

Toshiba Machine partner, TM Robotics, will introduce the THE400, the latest Toshiba Machine SCARA robot, to the North American market Automation Technology (ATX) West alongside Futura Automation, the company’s sales agent for the West Coast. ATX West will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in California from February 6 to 8. TM Robotics will be…

Industrial robot distributor, TM Robotics has assisted in the launch of Toshiba Machine’s THE400 SCARA robot, which was unveiled at the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2017. The biennial show was held on November 29 to December 2, at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan. Alongside the new SCARA model, Toshiba Machine demonstrated its robot programming…

FANUC Corp. will introduce the new SR-3iA and SR-6iA SCARA robots at the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) 2017 in Tokyo. FANUC’s new SCARA robots feature high-speed, precise operation for pick and place, assembly, testing/inspection and packaging processes in a wide range of industries including consumer electronics, auto component, plastics, food and beverage, lab automation, appliances and…

At the upcoming Assembly Show, Epson Robots will be showcasing its newly launched T3 All-in-One SCARA robot, the revolutionary Flexion N2 6-Axis robot, as well as a selection of its leading 6-Axis and SCARA robots. Epson will also lead a discussion on how to take the plunge in automation. The new T3 All-in-One robot comes…

Today at PACK EXPO, Epson Robots (which bills itself as the top SCARA robot manufacturer in the world) announced an expansion of its industrial SCARA robot line with new T-Series all-in-one robots with built-in controllers. The design (with a price starting at around $7,500, according to early sources) reduces space requirements and simplifies setup. The…

Epson Robots will be showing precision robotics to deliver efficiency and productivity for a wide variety of applications in factory automation at the Automation Technology show, ATX East. The showcase will feature the new and revolutionary Flexion N2 6-Axis robot as well as an assembly demo of an Epson Point of Sale printer built with […]

Parker’s Electromechanical and Drives Division – North America is pleased to announce the release of Parker Automation Manager (PAM) 1.3. This update significantly expands the Parker Automation Controller (PAC) features and functionality, allowing users to integrate complex robotics into their machine controller in an easy-to-use, graphical environment. While the PAC is Parker’s all-in-one machine controls […]

Six to ten years ago, exhibitors at Automate were promoting bin-picking in many, many booths. Bin picking wasn't mentioned this year because it is an available option these days. For the last six years vendors have been promoting human-robot collaboration in manufacturing. Here's what I saw this year at the big Automate and ProMat trade shows held last…

There is growing demand for more flexibility in factories and shops. Collaborative robotics, a sub-set of service robotics in labs, manufacturing and material handling, is where the action is today because co-bots are meeting these new demands, while caged legacy robots are not. Service and assistance robotics, with and without mobility, are an emerging and somewhat futuristic field, albeit one…

Today TM Robotics, in partnership with Toshiba Machine, announced the launch of Toshiba Machine’s newest TVM 6-axis line from the biggest robotics show in the world, Automate. The new 6-axis robots are compatible with other Toshiba Machine products, including injection molding machines and machine tools, and are a great fit for companies that have significant material handling and […]

Stäubli Robotics has extended its range of Humid Environment (HE) compatible models. Nearly all six-axis machines (and the FAST picker TP80) are available in HE versions suitable where high humidity, water spray or liquid coolants are prevalent. Whether used for water jet cutting, for machining or for industrial parts cleaning, the Stäubli HE models are suitable. Likewise, […]

I think you would have to live under a rock to have not been exposed to the term “additive manufacturing.” 3D printing, quite honestly, there was somewhat of a hype bubble that has burst, but the good news is the market is transitioning from that hype hangover and really getting down to business and getting […]

It used to be that motion control was X, Y, and Z, and then there was the evolution of articulated and SCARA robots to go ahead and achieve, cost effectively, anywhere from three to seven axes of motion. Then there started to be the delta format robots that you would see on packaging lines, that […]

Robotic platforms abound in Cartesian setups, delta subtypes, and six-axis selective-compliance-articulated robot arms (SCARAs). They’re more common than ever for machining, packaging, palleting, machine tending, welding, and assembly. But no matter the application, the robot morphology must match the task at hand. Case study: Quadrupled production capacity with collaborative robots Contract manufacturer Dynamic Group had […]

Comau introduces Rebel-S, its own 4-axis SCARA robot, in 5 different models with a payload of 6kg and 3 different reaches. All models are controlled by the R1C 19″ rack-mounted controller, which can be integrated into a single cabinet to control an entire line. The robots are also available in the openROBOTICS version, where the […]