Rockwell and Microsoft plan to jointly provide systems for factory design, real-to-simulation digitization, and cloud management.

The companies will add Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service into FactoryTalk Design Studio to accelerate time-to-market for their customers. 

Melonee Wise, Agility Robotics as CTO, joins the podcast to share her thoughts about the role humanoids will play in automation.

Rockwell Automation said AMRs “are the next frontier in industrial automation and transformation, and this acquisition will supercharge Rockwell’s lead in bringing the connected enterprise to life.”

MGS, a contract manufacturer for a major European medical device maker, turned to Stäubli robots to support automated inspection of single-use catheters.

Although this year’s FIRST educational competitions have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, PTC has offered students an opportunity to participate in its Robots to the Rescue program.

by Frank Tobe, Publisher, The Robot Report with Manoj Sahi, roboticist and educator, India   Imagine being present at the birth of a new industry. It is an industry based on groundbreaking new technologies, wherein a handful of well-established corporations sell highly specialized devices for business use, and a fast-growing number of start-up companies produce innovative…

By Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor The use of mechatronics principles should make new product/device design faster, easier, and deliver fabulous and inexpensive products. But many engineering groups grapple with this design approach. Why do some groups work while others struggle? We’ve heard about the promise of mechatronics for many years. Off-the-record, we hear comments about […]

MILWAUKEE, WI — Rockwell Automation and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. (DS SolidWorks) plan to broaden their work together by developing a joint mechatronic solution for machine builders that helps allow mechanical, electrical and controls design engineers to work together to analyze, optimize, simulate and select machine designs in a virtual design and production environment before […]