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Collaborative Robots Allow Workers to Pursue Value-Added Opportunities
Eliminating human error from manufacturing is one of the primary goals of industrial automation. Advances in robotic technology have introduced a more flexible, less expensive robot that mimics the actions of a human.Traditional robots are typically single-purpose uses, such as stacking pack boxes on a pallet. New collaborative robots can be programmed to perform a variety of tasks and can be easily moved around a factory floor when a change is needed and do not require a complete floorplan chan
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Aug 9th 2018
Automation for Small & Medium Sized Businesses
The days of conventional robotics may be numbered. In the past, small and medium sized businesses faced costly, bulky and complicated solutions to achieve automation with an extended period to see a return on the investment.
Today, cobot automation solutions are much cheaper, much safer, easy to program, and increase profitability in a much shorter timeframe. For small and medium sized businesses, collaborative robots are a perfect gateway to automation. Below are four outstanding reas
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Jul 12th 2018
Collaborative Robot Feeds Laser Marking Machine at PACK EXPO
At the 2018 PACK EXPO East, a packaging trade show held at the Philadelphia Convention Center in April, Automation Distribution teamed up with Precision Automation, which specializes in packaging, processing and material handling systems, for a fantastic display featuring collaborative robots and custom laser engraving equipment.
The Universal Robots UR3 was outfitted with a custom plate to hold a plastic luggage tag which, when detected by a vision system, was fed into the Arca l
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Apr 27th 2018
NASA Uses Collaborative Robots for Infrared Inspections
As part of the Advanced Composites Project, which has a goal to improve “methods, tools, and protocols to reduce the development and certification timeline for composite materials and structures,” NASA is testing collaborative robots to perform quality inspections on aircraft fuselages.Each fuselage is inspected with infrared thermography, which requires moving heavy equipment around all surfaces to complete the inspection process. The Universal Robots UR10 was selected to replace the manua
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Apr 4th 2018
Why We Name Our Robots
At the BMW plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a collaborative robot was installed to apply insulation to doors. The first of 60, its human coworkers named it, or her, Charlotte. A similar story happened at the Johnson & Johnson plant where employees named their
Universal Robots helper Clio.
“The fact that the employees have named the robot says it all,” said a supplier to Johnson & Johnson. But what do these naming conventions really say about our relationship with collaborative robot
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Mar 15th 2018