The new facility includes warehouse space for more than 6,000 robots for quick delivery.
July 12, 2024
AUBURN HILLS, MI—FANUC America has opened its new 650,000-square-foot West Campus facility here. The expansion increases the footprint in Michigan to more than 2 million square feet and is part of FANUC’s strategic investment plan to support and advance industrial automation in North America. The West Campus represents a $110 million investment built on 67 acres of land.
VERNON HILLS, IL—Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. has introduced the ARIA (Automated Robotic Industrial Assistant), its latest pre-engineered workcell.
AMHERST, MA—New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, agriculture and warehouse automation.
Boston University recently opened its Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (RASTIC)
where students can design, build and test a wide range of robots to solve real-world problems.
MARTORELL, Spain—SEAT is employing two collaborative robots at its assembly plant here to apply nameplates on the rear doors of Ibiza and Arona hatchbacks. The cobots work at the beginning of the assembly line and apply the badges as the vehicles make their way down the assembly line, with no delay to the process and sharing space with the factory personnel.
Since cable issues are often a significant cause of downtime for robots, it’s important to select dress packs that can address common cable management challenges while optimizing efficiency and throughput.
Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are using robots to improve the consistency of wind turbine blades.
On Demand Join this webinar to find out why cartesian robots (also known as linear robots or cartesian handling systems) are frequently the best choice for pick-and-place operations, as well as how they compare to other types of industrial robots.
On Demand Join this webinar to hear from Jody Gant, Customer Success Manager from Universal Robots. This cobot expert will cover the basics of what it takes to make sure that your deployment exceeds both your strategic and operational goals.
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On Demand Robots are still not as adept as people for complex tasks, such as assembling 3D mechatronic items. Now, new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and large language models in particular, are promising to give robots human-like ability to manipulate objects.