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Yale Robotic Reach Truck Wins Gold Edison Award
Able to reach 30 feet high and down into double-deep storage areas, the robotic reach truck opens new possibilities for plant automation. Abundant in technology, it uses 3D cameras and sensors to perceive its surroundings and perform at height.
Gripper Picks Irregular Shapes, Delicate Items in ‘Clean’ Applications
The new OnRobot food-grade-certified Soft Gripper serves industries like food and beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as well as manufacturing and packaging. No external air supply required, so costs and complexity are reduced.
Compact Shifting Gripper Speeds Up Transfer Movement
Lightweight feed grippers from Bilsing Automation extend up to 100 mm, providing stabilization through the Z-axis movement to the part during press transfer. To conserve space, they’re designed to pick parts from the top.
Autonomous Mobile Robot Tugger Can Tow 15,000 Lbs
AutoGuide’s Max-N15 is a high-payload, modular AMR for multiple manufacturing and warehouse material handling tasks. Flexible, safe and easy-to-deploy, it’s designed with modular attachments to create lift trucks, tuggers or high bay pallet lift trucks.
Wireless Pick-to-Light Improves Accuracy
Voodoo Robotics’s Cloud Display Device, the V2, is a warehouse picking solution for fulfillment challenges. Users can pick more orders, in less time, with fewer errors.
Compact Version of Non-Marking Gecko Gripper
Shrinking the size of its award-winning Gecko Gripper, OnRobot introduces Gecko Single Pad (SP) in three sizes for applications requiring a small footprint gripper.
Compact Spot Welding Robot
FANUC’s R-2000iD/210FH Robot offers system uptime while operating in tight workspaces.
Fully Integrated Fenceless Robotic Training Platform
Designed for workforce development, certification programs, and trade schools, Yaskawa Motoman’s EduCart features a six-axis robot, Schunk gripper package 3D-printed fingers and control interface, and laser scanner.
Assembly Robots Handle 55-lb and 88-lb Payloads
With longer reach and heavier weight capacities, Denso Robotics’ VM-VL series excels in large part assembly, long-reach computer tool tending, palletizing and depalletizing, material removal and deburring, and 3D bin picking. The two models also feature enhanced internal wiring for safer, more efficient operations.
3-Finger Electric Gripper Handles Wide Range of Cylindrical Objects
OnRobot’s 3FG15 three-finger gripper with a 150mm stroke is a powerful alternative to bulkier and less-flexible three-finger grippers currently on the market – a unique solution. The new gripper excels at heavy-payload machine-tending applications that require high precision and flexible handling.
Automatic CNC Machine Tending Keeps Die Caster Globally Competitive
“If it’s repetitive, we want to automate it,” says Ron Marconi, engineering and technology director at an Illinois manufacturer of automotive and consumer products components. Faced with losing business to Mexico, the company deployed two robotic cells to increase productivity. The investment paid for itself in less than a year.
Record Sales of Collaborative Robots Reveal Increasing Demand for End-Of-Arm-Tooling
Annual installations of collaborative robots (cobots) grew 23% from 2017 to 2018, according to the World Robotics Report, published by International Federation of Robotics.
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