Since the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed at a GM plant in the 1950s, industrial automation has been associated with big businesses running huge operations that involve massive ...

AI-enabled and virtual training gets robots to work faster—and will empower a more flexible era of automation. In partnership withSiemens Imagine the bustling floors of tomorrow’s manufacturing plant: ...

What are the challenges of collecting operating data in the form of data logs from increasingly complex industrial robotic systems? This article looks at how to handle the massive data collection and ...

Inside a modest-looking office building in Tokyo lives an unusually clever industrial robot made by the Japanese company Fanuc. Give the robot a task, like picking widgets out of one box and putting ...

Michael Gurney, CEO, Concept Systems Inc. According to the International Federation of Robotics, robot sales have increased more than 45 percent in the last five years. More and more companies, across ...

ZURICH, Jan 11 (Reuters) - ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab has bought a company specialising in boosting the mobility of industrial robots - by using artificial intelligence and 3D vision to move around ...

Collaborative robots, usually called cobots, are now the fastest growing segment of industrial automation and are expected to make up 34% of all industrial robot sales (a ten-fold increase) by 2025.