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Speed, precision, and affordability are all important to robotics users, but different hardware and software combinations offer tradeoffs. As the automotive industry retools for electric and autonomous vehicle production, and as customization and e-commerce demands increase, robots are key to growing productivity.
In this Special Focus Issue, readers can learn about how robotic precision is enabling applications beyond existing factory floors to laboratories, machine shops, and food production. The download will also focus on recent advances in machine vision, robotic manipulation, and control software.
The download will consider how the latest developments in grippers, robot arms and other systems, and machine learning can provide superhuman levels of precision. While a general-purpose robot may still be science fiction, specialized models are already transforming manufacturing. Topics covered include:
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
