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Renishaw robot system installed at children’s hospital
Renishaw announced that a neuromate stereotactic robot system and neuroinspire surgical planning software have been installed at one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, Great Ormond Street...
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New tech overcomes challenges of dot-matrix text in vision inspection...
Matrox Imaging has introduced Matrox SureDotOCR, the first OCR technology specifically designed to overcome the challenges of using inkjet-printed, dot-matrix text in vision inspection applications,...
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MIT, Carnegie Mellon to exhibit at Hannover Fair for first time
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) invented GPS, developed Doppler radar and is a pioneer in 3D printing. Carnegie Mellon University created the navigation software used by NASA’s Mars...
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Top trends, new markets for industrial robots
We spoke with several robot manufacturers to get their thoughts on where the industry is headed and what new things to watch for. Where we’ve been Over the past several years, there’s been a trend of...
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Fastec Imaging’s TS5 high-speed camera
Fastec Imaging’s TS5 handheld High-Speed Camera enables you to record any rotating machinery or equipment moving at high-speed and susceptible to vibration problems for performance analysis or...
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Southco partners with Pennsylvania Manufacturing Alliances to support student...
Southco Inc. recently partnered with the Manufacturing Alliance of Chester and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania to support the production of student videos about local manufacturing operations. The...
View ArticleCollaborative robots to take center stage at IMTS
The role of the robot continues to offer big benefits for manufacturers according to exhibitors at the upcoming Industrial Automation North America 2016. The trade show, co-located at IMTS from...
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Best Q1 ever for North American robotics market
The North American robotics market has set new records to begin 2016, according to Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. A total of 7,406 robots valued at approximately $402...
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Cost-effective mobile robot enters North American market
Mobile Industrial Robots, MiR, announced that it has opened a U.S. office and its award-winning autonomous mobile robot—the MiR100—will be available to North American companies as another tool to drive...
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Mobile robot helps with production floor deliveries at stove manufacturer
Every day, a user-friendly mobile robot automates many miles of production floor deliveries for Danish fireplace and wood stove manufacturer Scan A/S. Employees–who have been relieved of the monotonous...
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Fastec Imaging’s IL5 high-speed camera
Fastec Imaging’s IL5 High-Speed 5MP Camera enables you to record production lines moving at high speed for analysis or troubleshooting using slow motion replay, so you can see what you have been...
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Cyton frame grabber combines CoaXPress and Gen 2.0 PCle interface for faster...
BitFlow Inc. is offering the Cyton CXP4 four-channel frame grabber based on the CoaXPress standard. Key to its success is the incorporation of the Gen 2.0 x8 PCI Express bus interface on its back-end,...
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation introduces large capacity 6-axis robots
Addressing the need for higher capacity robots to meet the demands of today’s advanced automated manufacturing processes, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. introduces the latest in its line of RV-F...
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FIPA releases grippers with removable pads
FIPA Inc., a manufacturer of advanced vacuum technology, gripper systems, air nippers, tube lifters, and end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT), has expanded its portfolio of 100 Series sprue grippers with the...
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Sharp and Autonomous Solutions launch fully autonomous security robot
Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI) and Sharp have teamed up to produce the Sharp INTELLOS Automated Unmanned Ground Vehicle (A-UGV) for security. This automated security robot brings innovation to the...
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Low-cost ID vision sensors enable more accurate inspection
Teledyne DALSA has announced its new BOA Spot ID vision sensors; the latest in its series of low-cost and easy-to-integrate vision solutions for the factory floor. BOA Spot ID combines 1D/2D code...
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Teledyne DALSA’s low-cost GigE camera now includes 16, 25M models
Teledyne DALSA, has announced the addition of two very high resolution models to its high-value Genie Nano GigE Vision camera series. Powered by ONSEMI’s Python image sensors, the new 16 and 25...
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BitFlow releases single-link CoaXPress frame grabber
A new generation of machine vision cameras built to the CoaXPress (CXP) standard has recently emerged that makes the development of CXP systems more affordable, easier to configure, and cooler...
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135,000 new robots installed in U.S. over past six years
According to the World Robotics Report 2016, published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), from 2010–2015, U.S. manufacturers have installed approximately 135,000 new industrial robots....
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Line scan cameras feature industry’s highest optical resolution
Chromasens GmbH, a leading manufacturer of line-scan camera systems for 2D and 3D machine vision applications, has introduced the latest generation of its 3DPIXA stereo line-scan color cameras, the...
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