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The benefits of robotics and automation are coming to areas of manufacturing, logistics and materials handling where they never made sense before.

A small, Charlotte, NC-based robotics company, Transbotics Corporation, which has endured the worst, is now on the slow but steady incline back to prosperity.

Scape Technologies has developed an advanced bin-picking system that combines 3D vision, gripping options and robot control in a cohesive software solution.

Adept?s Motivity software utilizes onboard sensors to generate a map of the given workplace. The Motivity Core allows the AIV to navigate autonomously within that dynamic work environment, avoiding obstacles and even communicating with workers as appropriate.

RIA Reports Best Quarter Ever For Industrial Robot Sales

The UK's PPMA group reports that while sales of automotive robots are booming in that region, a reluctance to integrate robotics in other sectors is causing the UK to trail other countries in the progression of highly automated manufacturing procedures

The Pilbara robot trials were a real-world success. The most-watched machine was the autonomous, AT version of the Komatsu 930E, the best-selling off-road dump truck in the world?and now soon-to-be strategic hauling tool of choice for the Pilbara?s millions of...

According to expert analyst Dan Kara, Rethink Robotics is very well positioned, in terms of executive leadership, financing and first-to-market advantage to monopolize the market for its unique class of manufacturing robots for the foreseeable future.

Programming times for the PalletPack 460 can be reduced by as much as 65% compared to traditional methods, shortening the return on investment and making robotic palletizing highly attractive to a wide range of end-users. What used to take days...

Apple is about to single-handedly make robots a fixture in consumer electronics while potentially delaying deliveries for its competitors.