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ABB’s Smart Power business unit turned to JOT Automation to design and build a custom automated assembly system that could increase production volume; handle multiple product variants; and meet high quality standards.

Automakers could need more than 61 million wheels this year, and that doesn’t count aftermarket replacements and upgrades. Satisfying that kind of demand requires automation.

Weiss has optimized its HP 70 pick-and-place module for long strokes with short cycle times.

A few weeks ago, Amazon.com announced introducing an array of new artificial intelligence and robotics capabilities into its warehouse operations that will reduce delivery times and help identify inventory more quickly. The revamp will change the way Amazon moves products through its fulfillment centers with new AI-equipped sortation machines and robotic arms. It is also set to alter how many of the company’s vast army of workers do their jobs.

Servo control allows engineers to program jaw position, speed and gripping force.

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a way for machines to use whole-body manipulation instead of relying on grippers and other types of end-of-arm tools.

Engineers at the University of Texas at Dallas have harnessed artificial intelligence technology to teach robots how to recognize objects.

For Chromatic’s process to work, the company needed accurate and reliable technology to meter, mix and dispense two-component polyurethanes.

Summit Engineered Automation has developed what it calls the Summit Agile Process to create true partnerships with customers by focusing on risk analysis early and throughout a project. The process was put to the test recently when the systems integrator was approached by start-up Corvida Medical of Coralville, IA, to build equipment to produce its latest product.

SALEM, OR—Agility Robotics will soon open a new factory here to produce its bipedal humanoid robot Digit. Dubbed RoboFab, the factory will be able to produce more than 10,000 robots per year.