INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

Simple, creative robotics: Fotokite and ‘Walk to Beat’ receive top awards for innovative designs at European Robotics Forum

SPARC 28 Mar 2017

The 2017 European Robotics Forum in Edinburgh brought together over 800 people from robotics academia and industry. In an effort to bridge the two, euRobotics hosted an Entrepreneurship and TechTransf...

Industrial robot sales for 2015 set new record, despite troubles in China

Frank Tobe 22 Jun 2016

Worldwide sales of industrial robots set a new record: 248,000 units sold in 2015, 12% more than 2014. 66,700 units sold in China of which 20,400 were made in China. Asia is still the strongest gr...

How to benefit from the robotic skill shortage

Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc. 22 Apr 2016

Robotics is going to be one of the biggest job creators in modern history. But are there enough qualified people to fill those jobs? As various sectors announce skill shortages, we looked at how robot...

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...

Universal Robots’ tablet-controlled factory robots work safely with humans | Gizmag

John Payne 17 Dec 2012

A new low-cost, user-friendly factory robot from Danish company Universal Robots is heading to the U.K. and U.S.John Payne's insight:First Baxter, now UR, is this the beginning of a trend? One c...