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Load/Unload Robots: http://www.fanucrobotics.com/Products/Robots/machine-tending-robots.aspx This intelligent machining operation developed by FANUC Robotics features two overhead FANUC R-2000iB/100P robots performing multiple machine tending operations to four FANUC ROBODRILL machine tools. The cycle starts when the first FANUC robot, seen on the left, grabs a raw part from the rear of the system. At the first ROBODRILL, the…

Universal Robots has reinvented industrial robotics with lightweight, flexible robot arms. Tasks previously thought impossible to automate due to cost and complexity, are now achievable with the user-friendly robots. The Danish-designed robot arms work separately or as dual arms demonstrated here with the UR5. In more than 45 countries, from the small machine shop to…

Hugh’s talk addresses what a robot is and what a robot isn’t. A robot is not just a mechanical automaton. A robot perceives and a robot acts. Hugh leaves open the question of whether the robots will get us all in the end. Hugh is a field robotics pioneer and his work has helped bring…

The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable. The little device is called a milli-motein — a name melding its millimeter-sized components and a motorized…

ABB’s industrial robots enjoy the pleasure of contemporary dance in the modern dance performance “Human Interface”. The movement of the robots were programmed by dance/choreographer Thomas Freundlich using ABB’s RobotStudio software. The performance also makes use of ABB’s SafeMove technology which, for the first time, makes it possible for a person to remain safe within…