Topic: Grippers

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Robots Are Going Soft

December 1, 2019 · Materials innovations are helping create less rigid, more compliant robotic structures.

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Robotic unit orders show growth over last year

November 21, 2019 · Robotic Industries Association (RIA) statistics report more than 5% increase

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Huntsman to Unveil Two Flexible 3D Printing Materials

November 8, 2019 · Company unveils IROPRINT F 80112 filament and IROPRINT R 1801 resin at Formnext in Germany.

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Industry 4.0 Automation Unveiled for Building Complex Composites

September 3, 2019 · Cevotec enables aerospace manufacturers to automate the multi-material layup of geometrically complex components in one integrated production system.

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SME, Stratasys Announce Winners of FANUC-Inspired SkillsUSA Additive Manufacturing Competition

July 23, 2019 · Six teams—three high school and three college teams—received top honors for the designs they created during the three-day contest.

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Researchers in Denmark Apply AI to Autonomous Drones

June 6, 2019 · The AiR Lab designs and prints its own drone prototypes while developing hybrid controllers.

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RightHand Robotics unveils next-generation RightPick2

April 8, 2019 · RightHand Robotics, a leader in autonomous robotic piece-picking solutions, announced the release of RightPick2, the company's next-generation, integrated software and hardware product platform at Booth S2397.

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Warehousing and Logistics Robot Shipments to Approach 1M Units Annually by 2022, Predicts Tractica

February 6, 2019 · Research by Tractica highlights mobile robot platforms, shuttle AS/RS, industrial robotic manipulators and gantry robots as drivers of market growth.

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RightHand Robotics Picking Up Where Amazon’s Kiva Systems Left Off

December 19, 2018 · RightHand Robotics, a Somerville, Mass-based company founded in 2014 by Leif Jentoft and Yaro Tenzer, closed a $23 million Series B round for its RightPick robotic piece-picking technology.

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RightHand Robotics raises $23M in Series B funding

December 19, 2018 · RHR intends to use the funds to expand business and technical teams and broaden its suite of product applications in support of the company's growing customer base.

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IFR: Global industrial robot sales doubled over the past five years

October 19, 2018 · Global sales value up 21% year over year. United States robot installations increased to 33,192 units in 2017, 6% more than in 2016.

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OnRobot gets funding from Summit Partners, acquires Purple Robotics

September 4, 2018 · The acquisition takes place two months after the OnRobot merger of three robotics companies from the United States, Hungary and Denmark that created one global player with a focus on the market for industrial robot accessories.

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Capacity partners with RightHand Robotics

July 31, 2018 · The collaboration will integrate the Massachusetts-based company's RightPick automation system into Capacity's fulfillment solution offering.

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How robotics can fit your operation

July 9, 2018 · There is a lot to like about robotics as a means of automating DCs. The tricky questions around robotics are not will they catch on, because they are, but what types of robotics will best suit an operation, and how will they interact with traditional automation and human labor?

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Modex Software Wrap-up: Vendors Reposition on Software to Drive Improvement for Automated DCs

April 12, 2018 · The evolution of software continues to blur the lines between familiar acronyms and emerging capabilities.

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Robotic piece-picking gets smarter with new AI software at RightHand Robotics

April 10, 2018 · Just one year after its debut, the stationary piece-picking robots from RightHand Robotics (Booth B4087) for warehousing and fulfillment centers continue to evolve to address the individual unit handling needs of e-commerce and omni-channel retailers.

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Tompkins Robotics, a division of Tompkins International, partners with RightHand Robotics

April 10, 2018 · Tompkins Robotics (Booth B727), a division of Tompkins International, and RightHand Robotics (Booth B4087), a leader in robotic piece-picking solutions, announced today a collaboration that will combine the world's first portable, automated sortation system, t-Sort, with RightPick, robotic piece-picking systems, providing unmatched flexibility and throughput for e-commerce and omni-channel fulfillment.

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Vecna Robotics Partners With RightHand Robotics

April 3, 2018 · At MIDEX 2018, the companies will showcase collaborative solutions to streamline intralogistics and material handling processes.

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Dual grippers nearly double robotic output

December 13, 2017 · Manufacturer cuts cycle time by 12 seconds with robotic CNC tenders that can work overnight.

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Vanderlande invests in collaborative robot specialist Smart Robotics

November 21, 2017 · Cobot solutions used in order picking and placing, palletizing and depalletizing, and kitting and bagging alongside human operators.

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