Yaskawa America has released Yaskawa Compass, software with a graphical interface intended to make CNC programming easier for industrial automation.

Autonomous vehicle Waymo received the biggest investment in March 2020, but other fundings and acquisitions continued as the novel coronavirus pandemic spread.

Magswitch switchable magnets, now available through Festo, can improve the productivity and quality of stamping, welding, and pick-and-place operations.

Welding is in dire need of help because of skilled labor shortages. Collaborative robots from Universal Robots will be part of three new welding tools on display at FABTECH 2019.

Estun Group has bought the 100-year-old Carl Cloos Welding Technology to help both companies grow in the competitive Chinese industrial automation market.

Hirebotics’ BotX Welder uses UR10e cobots to automate arc welding in response to a shortage of skilled welders.

Kawasaki’s R-series general purpose robots, in combination with 3D vision software, are helping an aerospace manufacturer increase product quality and throughput.

From soft polymers to the hardest steel, robotics designers should know their materials options that best suit the intended uses of their machines.

Phillips Corp. and Universal Robots are working together to help small and midsize manufacturers apply UR collaborative robots to tending Haas Automation CNC machines.

Ket-Met, a Finnish subcontract machine tooling shop, found that its existing CNC machines required too much manpower to stay competitive. It reduced machine hour costs by 40% with UR cobots.

Yaskawa Motoman’s new PH series robots are shelf-mounted and are available in tow models for different payloads and reach capacities.

Bimba has added the Bimba Pneumatic Gripper System to its robotic gripper portfolio. The BPGS could be useful for automotive, sheet metal fabrication, thermoforming, and more industrial applications.

ARC Specialties has solved the challenge of creating repeatable pipe welds by combining AI, advanced sensors, and the UR5 cobot. The system debuts at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, May 6-9.

Collaborative robots, mobile platforms, and the enabling hardware and software were all on display at Automate/ProMat, but what was new and noteworthy?

Universal Robots, the Odense, Denmark-based collaborative robotics market leader, is launching new offerings for metal fabrication at FABTECH 2018. FABTECH takes place Nov. 6-8 in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Universal Robots’ (booth C-12116) new offerings, which are all integrated on the new flagship e-Series, include plug-and-play integration with Dynabrade orbital sanders, ARC…

Attendees of ATX West in Anaheim, California next week will get hands-on experience of how user-friendly collaborative robots (cobots) safely and effortlessly automate some of the most common manufacturing tasks in the industry. Universal Robots’ ATX booth #4616 is the launch pad for the Zero Footprint Palletizer (ZFP), which is now ready for distribution in…

Yaskawa Electric, one of the worlds’s largest makers of industrial robots, reported a 150% spike in net profit for the six-months ended Sept. 30, compared with the same period last year. The Japanese company posted a company-record $184 million profit for the period, citing demand for its industrial robots in China, Japan and the U.S.,…

Small job shops struggling with the budget, programming and space requirements of traditional welding robots now have an alternative setup … … the new SnapWeld Collaborative Robot Welding package developed by ARC Specialties Inc. and Universal Robots is a cobot-assisted, interactive welding system that can be deployed easily and flexibly in existing, manual welding booths,…

The MLX300 software option is the newest generation of integration for Yaskawa robots and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The MLX300 lets operators control and program Yaskawa robots in a standard PLC programming environment, eliminating the need to learn a specific robot-programming language. All program execution is performed by the PLC; the motion control is handled…

There are many robotics clusters around the world successfully providing for the needs of their respective communities and a few not really achieving their desired goals. Odense and the Danish clusters certainly fall into the former category. They do so because they are organized at every level to be offering and have people that are business smart,…

The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded reaccreditation status to the Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. Yaskawa Academy (formerly known as Motoman Technical Education Center – MTEC) has been an Accredited Provider since 1993. IACET Accredited Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs). […]

by Paul J. Heney, Editorial Director Robotics is a fast changing field, and it’s hard even for the most tuned-in engineer to keep up to date with the latest technology, trends, design ideas and industry pressures. Earlier this year, the International Federation of Robotics held a high-level panel on how robots and humans will interact […]