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One of the most popular applications for collaborative robots on the market today is machine tending. As long as the robot is constantly receiving raw materials, a robotic machine-tending operation can be repeated indefinitely. Currently, humans handle the majority of machine-tending applications. CNC machines are widely used in modern machine shops (such as lathes and milling machines). These machines need to be maintained by employees, who feed the raw material (often referred to as the r …

At Automate 2022, robots were performing various pick-and-place jobs, playing chess, welding, painting, and other activities. Despite the fact that the robots were programmed to do one thing for the purposes of the event, they can be deployed in a variety of ways with reprogramming that’s as easy to operate as a smartphone, complete with GUI interface and manual manipulation options for ease of use. It's a far cry from the time when robot design and function were set in stone. This flexible …

Some of the most frequent comments on our YouTube videos of collaborative robots are that they might be too slow for some applications. But we have to ask - does speed always equal productivity?Previously, while sorting products and packages into pallet loads for warehouse storage and distribution, producers used manual hand stacking. Pallet handling has been a vital logistical function for decades, despite its slowness and high staffing requirements. Pallets are now handled in a signi …

Improving productivity and ergonomics is a large part of what drove Bajaj Auto Ltd. to choose Universal Robots’ cobots to automate their assembly lines and become the first company in India to implement a collaborative robots solution. Due to the growing number of motorcycle models being produced, Bajaj needed an automation solution that could be deployed horizontally. The benefits of Universal Robots cobots were primarily an improvement in productivity, flexibility and relia …

In Pennsylvania, industrial machinery, food processing, fabricated metals, chemicals, plastics and electronics make up the majority of the manufacturing sector. Each of these manufacturing types benefits from collaborative robots in a variety of ways. Pennsylvania’s industrial machinery sector utilizes collaborative robots that assist with machine tending, which is the automated operation of industrial machinery tools. Collaborative robots are primarily used to load and unload, blow off, wash, d …