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…welding equipment. ”With an emphasis on flexibility, accuracy and ease of use, ABB’s mission is to provide the benefits of the automation industry’s most comprehensive and integrated portfolio of industrial and collaborative robots to metal fabricators of all levels of technical sophistication,” stated John Bubnikovich, president of ABB’s U.S. Robotics Division, in a release. ”Businesses of all sizes must continue to manufacture the highest quality components as they manage labor shortages and the growing demand for customized products.” ABB will show its systems at FABTECH Booth B17053 from Sept. 11 through 14 at McCormick Place in Chicago. It said the…
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…are UR+ partner Robotiq’s new palletizing system, designed for ease of use, plus the box EZ by Flex-Line powered by the UR5e cobot that erects multiple sizes of boxes. To ensure that the quality of manufacturing processes never fails, UR+ partner 3D Infotech will show automated robotic inspection products. UR+ ecosystem rapidly expanding Universal Robots said its UR+ ecosystem of third-party component and application kits, has grown exponentially since launch. It now encompasses no less than 318 partners with 359 UR+ products certified for seamless compatibility with Universal Robots cobots, the company said. One of the UR+ partners, Schunk, will…
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…1. Part of why we picked Locus is the ease of use for our human employees. Training typically takes just a few minutes, enabling workers to be productive almost immediately. Because the bots can change their on-screen display to the preferred language of the worker, it helps reduce errors and helps speed up their productivity. Bots and humans can easily coexist and work together in aisles, and the system provides flexibility for a number of different pick-and-pack methodologies. Since STORD provides on-demand capacity and Locus supplies robots as a service (RaaS), how are your business models complementary? Henry: The complementary…
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…shortage of skilled labor like welders.” “Modern applications incorporate ease of use, the right price point for small customers, and robots that they can understand and build into their operations,” he asserted. “We're getting there. There's still some vertical integration to do with our supply chains to be more responsive, and there's a shortage of integration skills.” A rendering of the lobby of ABB's planned U.S. expansion. Source: ABB Michigan anticipates job growth ABB already has about 350 employees at Auburn Hills. The expansion will create jobs supporting ABB Robotics' Packaging & Logistics headquarters in Atlanta and its Robotics Lifesciences…
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…useful for palletizing. Source: ABB Robotics Robots built for ease of use The GoFa 10 and GoFa 12 cobots are straightforward to program, deploy, and use. ABB's Wizard software is designed to facilitate setup. It allows even non-specialists to quickly automate their applications by manipulating simple graphical command blocks rather than writing complex programming code, according to the company. Pre-installed on the cobots’ ABB’s FlexPendant robot controller, the ABB SafeMove monitoring app includes features for safe speed limits, standstill monitoring, and orientation supervision. This enables human-machine collaboration without requiring bulky protective barriers or fencing, it said. The combination of the…
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…through RaaS,” Boyalakuntla said. “Our system was designed with ease of use in mind.” Robotic arm picking as part of Robotic Product Sortation system. Source: Berkshire Grey Berkshire Grey touts BG RPS benefits BG RPS is currently deployed at multiple Fortune 100 retailers, said Berkshire Grey. The company said it can also process less-than-case order volumes and can handle apparel, electronics, housewares, packaged food, childcare products, office supplies, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and other general merchandise items. Berkshire Grey said its system enables enable retailers and e-commerce providers to do the following things: Increase throughput of existing fulfillment operations by up…
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…the Americas at OnRobot. “The next big things are ease of use and deployment time.” Odense, Denmark-based OnRobot A/S was formed in 2018 with the combination of U.S.-based Perception Robotics, Hungary-based OptoForce, and Denmark-based On Robot. It acquired Purple Robotics that same year. In 2019, the company acquired Blue Workforce's technology for its RAGNAR delta robot. OnRobot now has offices in 10 countries. Last year, the company launched a three-finger electrical gripper, the OnRobot Eyes vision system, and screwdriver and sanding tools. It also launched the 2FG7 cleanroom-ready parallel gripper. OnRobot builds MG10 magnetic gripper for smoother handling Today, OnRobot…
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…image to enlarge. Source: AWS AWS can improve robot ease of use SEQSENSE aims to solve a shortage of labor in the security space by developing intelligent robots. By using AWS services, the company can make its service reliable and durable, as well as easy to maintain, scale, and extend, according to AWS. Especially, AWS IoT Core and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams help them easily develop and operate their core features like autonomous patrol and remote monitoring. AWS Robotics discusses more robotics use cases on its site. To learn more about AWS IoT services and systems, visit AWS IoT or…
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…in short supply.” Flexibility built into flowbot ONE “The ease of use and being able to retask the system for a new setup are differentiators for flowbot ONE,” Isaksson said. “We've had success with organizations doing tests with an array of robots rather than one big robot.” “The flowbot ONE can have multiple heads—a single, four-, or eight-channel head—with different volume ranges,” Cardella said. “The lab worker can reconfigure it to do a sample transfer with a single head and put a reagent into microplates or four or eight vials. Plate dispensing is not so difficult to do with our…
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…real-time monitoring and troubleshooting. Source: Exotec Balancing innovation and ease of use “Instead of starting with hardware and then doing a little software development, they go hand in hand for us,” Bellamy said. “Including something as traditional as a conveyor, we bring a modern, robotics view to it.” “For manipulation and grasping, we looked at what the market was doing, and we developed our systems and software to do that,” he added. “Exotec's Deepsky software comes with regular updates, so there's one version across our installed base around the world. Wherever Skypod is running, performance optimization is included, so customers…
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…in which Inpeco is used to operating,” he said. Ease of use was also a determining factor. With an intuitive user interface, even less experienced operators can use the robot, always having the opportunity to monitor and manage missions, said MiR. With the AMR, warehouse operators could devote more time to activities such as picking and loading materials in automated storage areas. According to Tolomeo, another reason for choosing MiR's mobile robot is its ability to safely move along corridors where it shares space with factory personnel or other means of goods handling. “The robot is able to detect obstacles,…
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…users or developers,” Cross said. “We want to improve ease of use and enable integrators to rapidly add devices without having to hack subpar systems or build them from scratch.” “We want to create a drop-in replacement board for Blue Robotics ROVs that would create space and improve processing performance,” he said. “It's designed for ROVs, but is adaptable to AUVs [autonomous underwater vehicles], ASVs [autonomous surface vehicles], and UUVs [unmanned underwater vehicles].” “The motherboard supports NVIDIA Jetson and STM332 MCU [microcontroller units] for real-time control and I/O,” said Cross. “For example, to upgrade a camera for low-light sensitivity, we…