Robotics

Two-armed collaborative robot

At its PACK EXPO booth, Kawasaki demonstrated an easy-to-teach dual-armed collaborative robot that can be wheeled into position wherever its services are required.

November 15, 2016

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Robotics

AGVs roll into food and bev plants

Moving beyond automotive plants and other manufacturing applications, automatic guided vehicles are replacing manned forklifts in food and beverage, consumer packaging and other industries.

November 14, 2016

Dry Processing

Safety first in conveying

Shuttleworth, powered by ProMach, demonstrated a conveying system that was long on saftety features and also included a Soft Robotics end-of-arm gripper.

November 9, 2016

Dry Processing

Collaborative robots for carton palletizing

FlexLink systems demonstrated an impressive use of two collaborative robots from Universal Robot to unload cartons from a conveyor and place them neatly on a pallet.

November 8, 2016

Robotics

Self-driving vehicles hit the factory floor

Otto Motors, a start-up division of Clearpath Robotics, introduced an intelligent material transport vehicle that incorporates self-learning technology to navigate autonomously around a facility.

October 3, 2016

Robotics

Robot monitoring system for closer collaboration

Software includes a variety of functions, including safe speed limits and safe standstill monitoring.

August 18, 2016

Robotics

China plans to beef up its robotics production

The goal is to sell 100,000 domestically produced industrial robots every year by 2020.

August 12, 2016