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Dürr’s 12,000th Ecopaint robot paints plastic system components for automotive production Bietigheim-Bissingen,  Dürr’s 12,000th painting robot, an EcoRP L033i, will be painting plastic components for automotive production together with its 21 ‘siblings’. Fitted with a host of sensors, these robots are equipped for the requirements of the Industry 4.0 environment. …

Almelo, The Netherlands – Tecnotion, the direct drive specialist offers both small iron core and ironless linear motors for low voltage purposes. In addition to 230 Vac and 400 Vac motors for industrial applications, drives are often sought for low-voltage applications of 60Vdc and less. Iron core linear motor with low voltage …

CartConnect and RollerTop AMRs Further Expand On-Demand Automation Capabilities for Warehouse Material Handling; Preview at MODEX 2018 SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 5, 2018 – Fetch Robotics, the pioneer in on-demand automation, today announced the expansion of its VirtualConveyor family of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) with the addition of CartConnect …

Leader in Autonomous Mobile Robots for Warehouse and Logistics Industries to Use Funding to Meet Growing Customer Demand SAN JOSE, Calif. – December 6, 2017 –  Fetch Robotics, provider of the leading platform for collaborative robotic solutions, today announced that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The round …

Interactive robot application “Threebots” receives the coveted Cannes Lion Mitsubishi Electric’s interactive robotic installation known as “Threebots” has been awarded with the coveted Silver Lionin Cannes. “Threebots” has already received several awards since its installation at the German branch in Ratingen. In November 2016 Mitsubishi Electric was honored with the …

Rüsselsheim.  A new era begins today at Opel’s home plant in Rüsselsheim; the first Insignia Grand Sport produced to customer order officially rolled off the assembly line on Tuesday. “We have been looking forward to today for a long time; our new flagship has finally arrived. This is an important …

Programming of industrial robots is not so difficult as it seems to be. Mitsubishi is one of the companies, that helps programmers to go into deep of industrial robots theory and experience. In such case, we can really declare that programming is so easy … We are proud to announce, …

MX3D is a new technology and research company estabilished by two men: Laarman and Tim Geurtjens. Their plan is to use robots to built a 3D bridge and especially print it from the steel. The first bridge should be printed over the canal in Amsterdam sometime in 2017. According to …

Yaskawa celebrated its centenary in 2015. On this occasion Yaskawa presented Bushido project on which the company demonstrated their robot´s speed, accuracy and agility. These facilities are presented during the performence of the robot MOTOMAN-MH24 with the world record holder in working with sword “ISAO MACHII”. The record was carried for cutting …

Company called “Kiva Systems” was bought by Amazon for 775 million $. Today, those Robots help to ensure logistic in every Amazon´s warehouses. It’s about more than 30,000 robots in 13 centers around the world. Take a look on the following video in which you will be able to see the Kiva (Amazon) …