The latest RC8 robot controller from DENSO Robotics features a built-in I/O command-slave function that allows the company's robots to be controlled directly by Rockwell and Omron PLCs or PACs.

NEW YORK — Imagine a robot. Not just any robot, but the kind that goes into nuclear accidents for industrial clean-up, or out in the field on bomb disposal duty. It's a rough life for a robot. But you ...

Robotics is the execution layer of a data-driven supply chain—linking design, production and logistics into one model.

Rexroth MLC with Version 10 may lower control costs, simplify integration The MLC motion logic controller from Rexroth, with Version 10 firmware, is based on a one-gigahertz PAC controls platform that ...

In the Robotics and Automation Lab there are two standout pieces of hardware, our PLC rigs, and Mover6 robots. Each of which allows us to explore how we design, test and build autonomous and automated ...

Automating the factory floor is a growing trend across the industrial space. It’s not hard to understand why, since such applications help improve efficiency and production rates. To create the ...

For PLC programming, U.S control engineers and technicians turn typically to ladder logic, a programming technique that’s been around since the birth of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, in the ...