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Charging challenges can be solved for rugged robotics, says WiBotic

Robotics Business Review

Modern robotics has come a long way since the 1960s. We’ve created robots accurate enough to work on a production line and safe enough to maneuver around a facility floor. In these locations, the robotics charging challenges become more pronounced. Perhaps the most pressing problem of all is how to charge those robots.

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Interview: Bryan Dean, CEO and co-founder, Dragonfly Aerospace

E&T

Bryan Dean is describing his personal mission for Dragonfly Aerospace that designs and manufactures satellite cameras for monitoring what’s happening on Earth from orbit. This is a key moment for Dragonfly Aerospace,” says the South African engineer, “and we are thrilled to be delivering EOS SAT-1 with a number of firsts.

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FANUC UK’s hottest automation trends for 2024

i4.0 today

Could 2024 be the year that UK manufacturers finally embrace robotics? After trailing behind our international counterparts for years, the UK is now starting to catch up when it comes to the installation of industrial robotics. Offering more tools and more features, it will provide an increase in both flexibility and productivity.”

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Unleash the power of smart manufacturing

Control Engineering

On day 2, October 18, of the Fall 2022 session of CFE Media’s Virtual Training Week, Ted Rozier, director of engineering at the Mason, OH-based Festo Didactic Solution Center, North America, will present on the topic of “ How to unleash the power of Smart Manufacturing while ensuring automation and robotic safety. ”. technology trends.

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Five-Axis CMMs Streamline and Automate Parts Inspection and Measurement

Fabricating & Metal Work

Rising demand in markets such as machinery manufacturing, transportation, electronics and aerospace in particular, are prompting companies to adopt 5-axis coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to streamline and automate parts inspection and measurement. Cobots work alongside their human counterparts to perform repetitive tasks.

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iCOMAT and CGTech Push New Frontiers in Composite Part Manufacture

MEM

iCOMAT’s industrial cells comprise a proprietary tape-laying head mounted as an end effector to a state-of-the-art six-axis industrial robot arm, all located inside a safety cell. CGTech are leaders in this field, so we definitely picked the right partner and know we can make our worldwide reseller agreement a success.”

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Synopsys to acquire Ansys to join forces for silicon-to-system design, simulation, and analysis

Robotics Business Review

. “At least once a year since 2000, Ansys has acquired and/or announced a major technology sharing partnership with another company,” wrote Shawn Wasserman, a former Ansys employee, on Engineering.com , a sibling site to The Robot Report. “Today, however, the script has been flipped.”