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Automate Forward Exceeds Goals, Demonstrates Robotics Growth, Says A3’s Jeff Burnstein
This week's Automate Forward event included discussions on innovation, helping businesses adopt robotics, and standards, said A3's president.

Automation Is a Complement, Not a Replacement for Human Workers
As part of the automation evolution, it is key to create an operating environment that combines excellent technology with an engaged and motivated workforce.

Are exoskeletons the X factor for industrial workers?
You might know the exoskeleton from Iron Man, but this emerging technology may offer relief to persistent, and costly, injuries.

Safety Laser Scanner Enhances Use of Small Mobile Robots
Safety laser scanner for mobile applications: space problems banished, performance increased.

Other Voices: In times of social distancing, essential businesses turn to autonomous robots
Warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing companies look to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to operate efficiently while maintaining the social distancing guidelines.

GlobalData: Industrial automation paying the price for failing to think big and invest bigger
Despite much hype over the years, advanced factory automation has not been substituted for human workers at scale.

UL Study Identifies Safety, Performance Variability for 3D Printed Plastic Parts
New Blue Card certification for plastic AM will provide guidance for integrity, safety of 3D printing materials.

RIA Standards Committee releases all-new methods and metrics for collaborative robot testing
Although cobots have inbuilt sensors and safety mechanisms, application variety requires tests to ensure limits are appropriate for the type of human/robot contact expected.

New Aerospace Additive Manufacturing Standards in the Works
ASTM International is creating safety standards for 3D printing parts.

Omron Automation and Voelker Controls Company announce new partnership
Voelker Controls to focus particularly on auto ID and machine vision solutions to improve quality and traceability.

Co-founder and CTO of Universal Robots wins Engelberger Award – the ‘Nobel Prize of Robotics’
Esben Østergaard, co-founder and chief technology officer of Universal Robots, a market leader of collaborative robots, has been awarded the automation industry's most prestigious honor.

Year in Review: Top materials handling news in 2017
The industry's momentum continues to build, even as it changes shape to adapt to technology; acquisitions across technology competencies have heralded the arrival of Consolidation 2.0, while automation and cybersecurity shake...

Seegrid partners with Bell and Howell to expand service support for self-driving industrial vehicles
Bell and Howell to service autonomous pallet trucks and tow tractors for Seegrid customers across North America.

Robotic Industries Association announces new alliance with OSHA, NIOSH
Alliance aims to enhance robot expertise within OSHA and NIOSH, improve awareness of workplace hazards of traditional industrial robots and emerging collaborative systems, and identify needed research.

Pack Expo Las Vegas expected to eclipse records
Show producer PMMI projects record attendance and exhibitors, outlines new and returning features.



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