Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While most industrial automation is currently used by large manufacturers such as global automakers, robot developers and providers are building systems to make it more accessible. Three researchers led by Roman Hölzl, the chair of robotics and artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Munich, founded RobCo in 2020.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

Collaborative robot maker Doosan Robotics Inc. “As we unveil our groundbreaking Dart-Suite at CES, we recognize the strategic importance of this platform’s launch in providing direct access to consumers and a multitude of industries,” William Ryu, CEO of Doosan Robotics, said in a release.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 19, 2023

Industrial robotics insights Robotics are being used more often in industrial manufacturing facilities due to a rising labor and skills gap and strong industry demand. Trends in the industrial robotics market include increased digitalization and automation and an emphasis on making robots easier to use.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Below are eight robotics acquisitions, in chronological order, that stood out to us in 2023. Its preliminary view is the acquisition may restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners. Berkshire Grey produces a variety of robots that address use cases in retail, eCommerce, grocery, 3PL, and package handling companies.

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Dinesh Mishra

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To help you find the right direction, here are five key areas within manufacturing operations where AI can make a significant impact. Similar techniques can also be used to predict weak demand periods and slow down manufacturing to prevent spoilage of products and increased warehousing costs.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 8, 2024

Source: RIOS Intelligent Machines RIOS Intelligent Machines Inc. The company said it plans to use the investment to develop and offer artificial intelligence and vision-driven robotics, starting with a product for the lumber and plywood-handling sector. RIOS works with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and serves the wood-products industry.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JUNE 14, 2023

ADVANCING AUTOMATION Industrial robots can be more flexible and adaptive thanks to AI and computer vision. Why were robots not applicable for high-mix production in the past? At the same time, the process of robotization is going very slowly. Why are robots so needed, and yet there are so few of them?

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2024

BMW plans to see what a Figure 01 humanoid robot can do in its factory. Source: Figure AI The interest in humanoid robots continues to gain steam. based Figure AI signed an agreement with BMW Manufacturing to test its 01 humanoid at the car maker’s plant in Spartanburg, S.C. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based

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i4.0 today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Robotics and automation have significantly revolutionized how people work and live across a number of industries. With the increasing likelihood of a global economic recession in 2023, many industries are struggling with increasing manufacturing cost, such as labor and raw material costs, and maintaining their profit margins.

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ATS

MAY 12, 2023

In just one year – from 2020 to 2021 – new sales of hybrids and fully electric vehicles nearly doubled, increasing from 308,000 to 608,000. In electric vehicle manufacturing, the space normally reserved for the engine block and other components is now typically used for storage (as in the case of the “frunk,” or front trunk).

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Additive Manufacturing

JULY 28, 2022

Combining cutting-edge technology with additive manufacturing redefines the limits set within traditional manufacturing and delivers innovation in places you might not expect. Additive manufacturing (AM), more commonly known as 3D printing, is an innovative process where objects are created one layer at a time. FALLS CHURCH, Va.,

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2024

Parkhotel employees in Eisenstadt, Austria, celebrate the arrival of service robots. Source: Pudu Robotics Commercial service robots are more common in East Asia than elsewhere, but the rest of the world could catch up in 2024, according to Pudu Technology Co. Does Pudu offer robotics specifically for elder care?

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 3, 2022

It is where the normally invisible decision makers are often to be seen presenting at a conference or walking the exhibition floor, giving the opportunity to hear the important news straight from the source, or have a direct meeting or discussion. And the critical mass of engaged industry players is its own source of opportunity.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 19, 2023

Manufacturers’ Monthly sits down with co-founder and CEO Andrew Uscinski to discuss the company’s growth and aspirations in the burgeoning Australian space industry. The team of three are mechanical and aerospace engineers who met at the University of Queensland and started the company in 2020 while they were still students. “We

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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 18, 2023

The ultimate manufacturing supply chain disruptor was the arrival of the global pandemic of 2020, which is still affecting the timely delivery of products, noted Leigh Chesley the Chief Customer Officer of Longbow Advantage Inc. Ann Arbor, MI). Delivering components and parts to customers in a timely manner is more critical than ever.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Source: NASA Virtual Incision’s MIRA surgical robot system has made it to the International Space Station (ISS). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded the grant to use the miniaturized robotic-associated surgery (RAS) platform on the 2024 technology demonstration mission.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 6, 2023

Today, Quality Mold remains a privately held plastic injection mold manufacturing company, operating in a 16,000-square-foot facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, just a few miles from Interstates I-90 and I-79, that employs more than 30 trained professionals. Mold inspection by hand, eye and a robotic probe is a specific investment area.

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Automation Mag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Real-time adjustments to manufacturing systems. In the past, manufacturing systems including line manufacturing and robotics applications relied heavily on extremely segmented networks, with PLCs used for control of individual lines or sections of lines. Cybersecurity risks facing automated manufacturing.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2023

The overall result shows that the development of 5G-based enterprise AR applications were in an early stage of development in 2021, but there are promising use cases that showed the potential of 5G in driving adoption of enterprise AR applications in various sectors, particularly in manufacturing. The survey was run during May 2021.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 16, 2024

Source: EverestLabs Companies are coming together to prove that robotics and artificial intelligence can help make recycling more economically viable. LRS has installed EverestLabs’ RecycleOS sorting robot in The Exchange, a new material recovery facility (MRF). It helps maintain quality control for more than 350,000 lb.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) insights can change how manufacturers operate, but they need to overcome cultural and organizational barriers to achieve these goals. Benefits include: Data transparency providing one source of truth in one location, that is visible to a variety of stakeholders. Artificial intelligence insights.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Over the past 56 years, we have grown into a world-class manufacturing business with 130 employees and an 87,000-square-foot manufacturing facility (61,000-square-foot air-conditioned manufacturing area, 14,000-square-foot area for the office, engineering and training; and a 12,000-square-foot climate-controlled warehouse.

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AU Manufacturing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Clunies Ross Knowledge Commercialisation Award winners Professor Jason Monty and Dr Forbes McGain could see that intensive care workers were at great risk of COVID-19 exposure as early as March 2020, weeks, if not months, before many Australians began to feel the impact of the pandemic.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

This automated robotic cell at MetalQuest frees employees from repetitive, manual tasks. Source: MetalQuest From the earliest days of automation at IMTS featuring a robot hand moving parts, there has been a massive evolution in technology. “This isn’t unique to manufacturing, it’s the entire global workforce.”

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

Small manufacturers and commercial operations such as data centers all need to address potential electrical hazards. However, this positive trend is tempered because the number of nonfatal electrical injuries flattened to an average of about 5 per day from 2010 to 2020 (around 2,000 per year).

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The pandemic also presented challenges to all shared transportation models – for example, public transit ridership in the US fell to a low of ~20% of previous levels in April 2020, and we saw an impact on our business as well. data source: [link]. However, transit ridership has increased to nearly 70% of past levels.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Top row, from left to right: the Ella smart stroller, Soft Robotics’ food packer, and the TM25S. Source: NVIDIA Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this past year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged forward the frontiers of robotics, according to NVIDIA.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 10, 2023

Brent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Machine Shop: Welcome to Made in the USA, the podcast for Modern Machine Shop all about major themes shaping American manufacturing today, I'm Brent Donaldson. Its manufacturing operations and suppliers have been and still are global. Develop that for the company.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Source: Locus Lock Flying back from Miami last week, I put my life in the hands of two strangers, just because they wore gold epaulets. In 2020, Iran shot down an uncleared passenger aircraft that entered its territory. Locus Lock is designing RF systems to provide navigational security.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The system incorporates a robot whose operation is based on the concept of a collaborative robot, or cobot. The operator manually guides the robot over the seams on the part to be welded and presses a button to mark the relevant waypoints. This keeps employees safe when they are working right next to the robot.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 23, 2023

Brent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Machine Shop: Welcome to Made in the USA, the podcast for Modern Machine Shop magazine that explores some of the biggest ideas shaping American manufacturing. It's become apparent to many people outside of manufacturing, why the US needs a robust manufacturing base.

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E&T

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Belgium reported the average age increasing from 14 to 17 years from 2012 to 2020. It is even possible that changes in legislation mean some of those ships being built today will wind up with a different power source within a couple of decades. That does not mean shipping is not due for some major changes.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 2, 2023

Grady Cope believes that digitalization leverages two key assets of Reata Engineering: A variety of automated production equipment such as this robotic loading/unloading station serving a Mazak Integrex, and youthful members of his workforce team, who bring a strong awareness of software integration and data sharing.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The da Vinci SP surgical robotics system. Source: Intuitive Surgical The surgical robotics space saw a major shakeup last year. Robotics is hard. Robotics in healthcare is hard.” It’s even moving forward on a next-gen da Vinci robot. Despite the increased competition, Intuitive remains the undisputed leader.

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Fastener News Desk

OCTOBER 13, 2023

While multi-sourcing and intensifying cooperation with our suppliers and customers all over the world, we concentrated our focus on emergency response scenarios, business sustainability management, preparation of quality and performance improvement programs for suppliers, and increasing the level of automation based operations.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

OCTOBER 2, 2022

From our standpoint, we are still increasing our manufacturing in the United States to keep up with demand,” said Jason Hillenbrand , AMADA’s general manager of product promotion. AMADA is a premier American manufacturer of sheet metal fabrication equipment. For AMADA AMERICA, INC. Hillenbrand said press brakes are the company’s No.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Some of the more prominent decarbonization technologies and their adoption have been highlighted below: Prominent technologies Renewable Energy : Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power are naturally replenished and have a low carbon footprint. This rate is about half of what it was in the previous decade. [4]

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