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Universal Robots Launches Trailblazing Cobots at Automatica
As CTO and co-founder of Universal Robots, Esben Østergaard, pulled away the black fabric covering the new e-Series cobot at last week’s Automatica fair in Munich, it not only introduced the world to a
new collaborative robot line that enables faster development for a wider variety of applications. It also marked a ten year anniversary of the cobot concept being publicly exhibited as a commercially viable automation tool. Back in 2008, as Universal Robots’ modest exhibit opened at Automati
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Jun 27th 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
New Plug n Play Camera Kits for Universal Robots
SensoPart VISOR starter kits for Universal Robots are integrated with the “URCaps,” which is similar to an app that would be added to a smartphone to make peripheral devices seamlessly compatible. Short for “Universal Robots Capabilities,” this technology offers a plug and play option for vision and cameras now offered by SensoPart, available in several versions to meet needs from the most basic to those of high-tech labs.
SensoPart offers the following explanation of its newest robotic vis
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Mar 8th 2018