The RXS-400 rotary blast system has a 180° indexing table with two spindles and a single blast station at which the fixtured component is rotated at controlled and adjustable speed as target surfaces are exposed to the blast from multiple suction-blast guns that are rigidly bracketed in position at the correct angles and distances for complete coverage during the timed b...
The International Federation of Robotics states that demand for industrial robots will continue at an average annual growth rate of 12% between 2015 and 2017. In Asia/Australia, robot sales are expected to increase by around an average of 16% per year. The automotive and electronics industries will continue to see increasing investment in robots. Robotics made simp...
Their new research goes one step forward: they have now developed a software architecture that could enable Hector to see himself as others see him. “With this, he would have reflexive consciousness,” explains Dr. Holk Cruse, professor at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University. The architecture is based on artificial...
They are also working behind the scenes, and now, navigation systems have made them more clever and mobile. Mobility presents one major challenge to safety: operation in dynamic, unstructured environments where objects, people, and even physical infrastructure, like walls, move with different frequencies in different ways. With many robotic systems, magnetic tracks...
The XLR-ONE, dubbed "the droid you've been looking for," is the project of 47-year-old robotic and 3D-printing enthusiast Antonios Ameralis. The XLR-ONE is a boxy white robot that has only one eye. It is equipped with an EZ-Robot WiFi Camera, powered directly by the EZ-B v4 WiFi Robot Controller. As described by Ameralis, the CEO of XLR Robots, the XLR-ONE feature...
One participating company is Airware, a firm that produces hardware, software and cloud services for commercial UAVs. NASA expects to be able to operate and test a wide range of aircraft, custom software and components using Airware’s autopilot system. The company is one of many in the growing field of technology solutions for UAVs, commonly referred to as drones. Air...
But robots may not injure humans at all. When does contact cause an injury, though? Researchers are exploring this for the first time in a study. Everybody has experienced this: You aren’t careful for just one moment and suddenly you run into the edge of a table. At first, it hurts. A little later, a bruise starts to appear. What falls into the category of “nothing ba...
According to the International Federation of Robotics, 22,577 industrial robots were installed there in 2011, compared to only 14,978 in 2010 and 5,000 in 2009. Some of the world’s largest industrial robot manufacturers — FANUC, ABB, KUKA, and Yaskawa — have set up production units in China. ABB Robotics, for example, celebrated production of their first 100 robots at ...
Robot sales to the automotive sector have increased from 19,300 in 2009 to 69,400 in 2013, with China, Germany, the US and Japan the main takers. Indeed, a recent report by independent business information provider, Visiongain, estimates that automation and robotics in automotive manufacturing reached a value of approximately $13.66 billion in 2014. The growing uptake of...
The World Bank ranks Brazil as the worldâs seventh-largest economy by gross domestic product. It is also the worldâs fifth-largest automotive market, with an installed capacity capable of producing approximately 4m vehicles per year. From a manufacturing perspective, carmaking is the countryâs most advanced sector, but its tier one suppliers â as well as their t...
