Mitsubishi Electric Automation has launched its LoadMate Plus engineered solution, a mobile robot cell. The machinery is targeted towards manufacturers in CNC machine tool applications who find themselves facing a labor crunch, while needing to be more efficient and improve their production. It cr

Ridecell, a provider of automation for vehicle fleets, has launched its Fleet IoT Automation, which it describes as “the first IoT driven automation platform designed specifically for fleet-based businesses”. Fleet IoT Automation integrates data insights with digital vehicle control to turn today’

As the global manufacturing industry enters its fourth revolution, innovations such as robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to take over. (1) The number of active industrial robots worldwide is increasing by approximately 14% year on year, and automation continues to creat

Nachi-Fujikoshi is expanding its lineup of compact industrial robots with the launch of the new “EC06” and the “MZ12H”.  The Japanese robot-making giant says that the need for automation by robots is expanding in the field of manufacturing with the aim of eliminating labor shortages and improving

Swisslog, a provider of warehouse automation systems, is making a push into the vertical farming market and has demonstrated newly built technologies specifically designed for the sector.  The company says its automation systems can bring scalability, flexibility and lower costs to vertical farmin

FORT Robotics, a technology company creating safety-and-security solutions for autonomous machines, has closed on $13 million in funding led by Prime Movers Lab, an investor in breakthrough scientific startups. With the new investment, FORT will more than double the size of its workforce and expan

Industrial automation company B&R, a subsidiary of ABB, is adding a new high-end computer to its mobile automation portfolio. The company says the new computer offers significantly more processing power and memory, giving it plenty of resources to implement autonomous functions for agricultura

Mecademic, a maker of tiny industrial robot arms, is planning to launch a very small new SCARA robot. The company describes the MCS500 as “with the world’s most compact SCARA robot” and says it is coming soon. Mecademic says its new SCARA robot is designed and built using the same principles as Me

Yaskawa Motoman, one of the world’s largest industrial automation companies, has sold 500,000 industrial robots. The company says cumulative shipments of Motoman Yaskawa’s industrial robots reach 500,000 units last month – February 2021. Yaskawa has attracted a wide range of customers worldwide si

Universal Robots, the world’s largest collaborative robots manufacturer, has developed an interface for the engineering portal of Siemens, one of the world’s largest industrial technology companies. The companies say that integrating Universal Robots’ collaborative robots into complex machines an

Robot maker ANYbotics has unveiled its collaboration with BASF, one of the largest global chemical manufacturers, which involves the use of the ANYmal robot for inspections at Ludwigshafen, Germany. (See video below.)  The two companies say the collaboration “displays the efficiency, quality, and

Ultimation Industries has introduced autonomous mobile robot – also known as warehouse robots – from Nord-Modules. The company says they provide its clients with more flexible material handling solutions.  They provide more flexible material handling when used in conjunction with Motor-Driven Roll

IAM Robotics has joined forces with Tompkins Robotics to create a new robotic application to automate the exit process of order fulfillment. Developed by Tompkins, the new application enhances the current t-Sort system with the addition of xChange to autonomously remove completed order containers

Boston Dynamics, a developer of mobile robotics, has revealed Stretch, its new box-moving robot designed to support the growing demand for flexible automation solutions in the logistics industry. This debut marks the company’s official entrance into warehouse automation, a fast-growing market fuel

ABB is expanding its collaborative robot portfolio with the new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, to complement YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABB’s cobot line-up. These stronger, faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the company’s expansion in high-growth

Startup company Symbio Robotics has raises more than $30 million in funding and has launched a computing platform to make robots “more intelligent”. Symbio says it is “pioneering the next frontier of manufacturing” through a combination of artificial intelligence and industrial robotics. Symbio of

Elementary Robotics, a rapidly-growing AI vision startup, has unveiled what it claims is the first AI camera system for cloud-based inspection. The new system, which combines software, deep learning AI, and camera systems make it “faster and easier” for manufacturers to use. The company also appoi

Robot software company RoboDK has partnered with DIY-Robotics and ATI Industrial Automation to release a combined application bundle for robotic deburring. The plug-and-play modular Robotic Deburring Cell can be integrated in just a few days. (See video below.) With manufacturing industries changi

Omron has released its new FH-SMD Series 3D Vision Sensor, which can be mounted on a robot to recognize randomly placed bulk automotive parts in three dimensions, enabling space-saving assembly, inspection, and pick and place, which are difficult with conventional robots, and improving productivit

Fanuc America and Rockwell Automation have formed a coalition to introduce accelerated work and learn apprenticeship programs designed to “upskill current and future workers for jobs in advanced manufacturing, robotics and automation”. The coalition includes APT, a Fanuc and Rockwell Automation sy