Industrial Robots

Universal Robots has developed a modern, light weight, and flexible industrial robotic arm, capable of performing many tedious and repetitive production-related tasks. The 6-axis robot, created by the Danish company, weighs a mere 18kg and can handle a payload of up to 5kg.  It has a working radius of 850mm, a repeatability of +/-0.1mm and can be readily programmed to perform the exact movements required, […] Read More

It seems that the global financial crisis, which affected almost all industries in a negative way in the recent years also hit the robotics industry. Overall, worldwide stock performance of robotic stocks over the last four years has been disappointing. Here are some figures and a chart provided to us by Robo-Stox™ of Therobotreport.com : Robotic industrials are still down 28% from their 2007 highs and did […] Read More

Taiwan based Foxconn, which is the largest electronics component manufacturer in the world, have announced plans to add 1 Million robots to their workforce and they are planning to do this over the next three years. Currently the company employs over 1.2 Million workers and about 500,000 of them will be replaced by robots during this period. Most of Foxconn’s employees work in China. It […] Read More

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The EU co-funded COMET consortium is creating a revolutionary solution enabling the use of industrial robots for high-end machining. Robots of any brand fitted with the novel COMET plug-and-produce controller unit successfully respond to manufacturing industry needs for cost effective, flexible and reliable manufacturing solutions. Nikon Metrology is a main contractor developing an adaptive tracking system to detect deviations from the programmed robot path. These […] Read More

George Devol, who invented the widely used assembly line robot arm has died at the age of 99. His work started as early as 1950s, when there was no concept of industrial robotics. His invention was started to be used in 1961 by General Motors factories. Other auto manufacturers followed. This year, George Devol had been admitted to National Inventors hall of fame. To read […] Read More

Swiss robot manufacturer ABB has just come up with a new industrial robot designed to help human workers in assembly lines and has arms that are proportioned like a human arm. For safety, its metal body is covered with plastic, in addition to having a crash detection system. The robot is lightweight, and can be easily transported from one workplace to another. Although Frida still […] Read More

In Germany, a new type of flexible robotic arm has been developed in the shape of an Elephant’s trunk. The developers emphasized safety in developing this arm and no metallic parts are used. The arm is composed of three main segments and a hand axis. The movement is made possible by the air moving in and out between segments. The special design of the grippers […] Read More

According to the International Federation of Robotics, (IFR) after stopping for a while due to the crisis in 2009, the demand for automation increased again in 2010. The recovery represents a stong surge upward, an increase of 27%, or 76,000 units. The majority of the demand came from China, Republic of Korea and South East Asian countries. The North American and Japanese demand has also […] Read More

The food processing robot by Adept Technology Inc. called Quatro, has recently reached a speed of 300 cycles per minute, which is considered a benchmark in the industry. Other than the motor speeds, it takes a high performance of motion control and software as well, in order to reach such speeds. Threshold for the record is set by using a 25mm x 300mm x 25mm […] Read More