While robot original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) each offer their own tightly integrated controllers, recent developments now enable control by a programmable logic controller, or PLC. For ...

Universal Robots (UR), a supplier of collaborative robots (cobots), has now integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. UR said it is among the first cobot vendors to ...

(Nanowerk News) Adept Technology, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions, today announced the development of its ePLC line of PLC programmable robots. The new ...

STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi software that will allow robot programming to be implemented via the PLC, using Plug & Play in Siemens TIA Portal. Thanks to this optionally available ...

This solution allows OEMs to develop instruments targeted specifically to their application in minimum time. These new solutions were developed at the Festo Life Science Technology Engineering Center ...

Combining a ceiling-mounted flexible SCARA robot with a long-stroke Cartesian robot, a series of compact gantry robots offers high efficiency. The XR-series four-axis robots use up to 40% less factory ...

MOTION CONTROL: DENSO announced that it has increased the payload capacity of its XR-Series four-axis, compact gantry robots from 3 to 5kg. The new 5kg capacity, which represents an increase of over ...

Toyota's robotics division has created a new robot intended to help out around the house as people get older, but without expecting them to change up their lifestyle. The "gantry robot" hangs from the ...