Despite the challenges facing the wider manufacturing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, collaborative robots continue to attract attention and investment, due to their ease of use, re-deployability, and convenience to end-users who struggle to afford more traditional forms of automation. The post Cobot market to grow to $8B by 2030, report finds appeared first on […]

Interventional Systems has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Micromate robot for percutaneous procedures. Kitzbühel, Austria–based Interventional Systems developed Micromate as a table-mounted medical robot for interventional procedures, touting it as the world’s smallest robot for those of the percutaneous kind. The post Interventional Systems receives FDA clearance for mini surgical robot appeared first on […]

Italian robot manufacturer Comau introduced a 6-axis collaborative robot (cobot) arm called the Racer5-0.8 COBOT. The Racer5 COBOT features a 5 kg payload, and a 809 mm reach with 0.03 mm repeatability. However, the key differentiating feature for the robot is that it can operate at industrial robot speeds when no humans are present in […]

RE2 Robotics, a 2021 RBR50 Innovation Award winner based in Pittsburgh, is developing an autonomous refueling system for AH-64 Apache helicopters deployed by the U.S. Army. RE2 received $1 million in funding for the project, which is called Remote Robotic Refueling for Extended Missions (R3EM). The post RE2 Robotics developing autonomous helicopter refueling system appeared […]

igus said the system offers a 40% retraction length ensured by a unique telescopic mechanism inside the chain. This allows users to save space on the third axis of their robot, up to 83% weight and high costs for retraction systems. Retraction systems have so far been used on the third axis to ensure that […]

The robotics industry is at an inflection point where the baton is being passed from the scientists to the practitioners. In historical terms, we are witnessing the Edisons of the world harness the innovations of the likes of Faraday to create life changing businesses and wealth. Automation has moved from smart manufacturing and logistics to […]

FedEx and Nuro are teaming up to test autonomous delivery vehicles. The companies signed a multi-year, multi-phase agreement to pilot Nuro’s autonomous delivery vehicles in the Houston area. The pilot, which will start in April 2021, marks Nuro’s expansion into parcel logistics and allows FedEx to explore various use cases for on-road autonomous vehicle logistics, […]

KUKA Robotics launches version 4.0 of its KUKA.sim simulation software this week. The KUKA.sim 4.0 version features new capabilities including: KRL editor for advanced offline programming, 3D safety zone configuration, advanced I/O signal editor, robot stopping distance simulation, and WorkVisual project export. The post KUKA releases new version of KUKA.sim appeared first on The Robot […]

ACEINNA Inc., announces the general availability of the OpenIMU335RI, a rugged inertial measurement unit (IMU) with CAN and RS232 interfaces. The OpenIMU335RI is the third product in ACEINNA’s Gen 3 architecture and adds a rugged sealed standalone product to the earlier introduced IMU383ZA and OpenIMU330BI. The post ACEINNA announces OpenIMU335RI a new high performance inertial […]

Integrating Universal Robots‘ (UR) cobots into complex machines and manufacturing environments will soon be a process machine builders and systems integrators can handle through Siemens’ TIA (Totally Integrated Automation) portal. UR said this will be done through an interpreter interface and will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2021. The post UR develops cobot […]