FANUC

Big data, the cloud — FANUC and Kuka?

Frank Tobe 07 Jun 2016

FANUC, the world’s largest maker of industrial robots, plans to start connecting 400,000 of their installed systems by the end of this year. The goal is to collect data about their operations and...

Old and new at Automate 2013

Frank Tobe 29 Jan 2013

Industrial Robots; Robot Arms; Cameras, Scanners and Vision Systems; Collaborative Cage-free Robots; Mobile Robots; Robot Operating Systems; Warehousing and Materials Handling; New Technologies, and J...

Two overhead, rail-mounted robots tend four others | FANUC Robotics

John Payne 08 Dec 2012

I sometimes feel as though FANUC gets short shrift because their videos are pragmatic rather than flashy. This one is of particular interest to me because it demonstrates a rail-mounting system ...

SCHUNK on FANUC demo cell at IMTS2012

John Payne 16 Oct 2012

FANUC demo cell at IMTS 2012, posted by industrial robotics competitor SCHUNK GmbH to their YouTube channel. See on www.youtube.com...

Robotics is a highly fragmented industry with few common standards or platforms

Frank Tobe 06 Dec 2011

Imagine being present at the birth of a new industry. It is an industry based on groundbreaking new technologies, wherein a handful of well-established corporations sell highly specialized devices for...