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Battery inspection using machine vision – fast, reliable, and variable
Averna has developed a procedure for automating battery inspection for one of its customers. The fact that potential errors are extremely varied increases the complexity of the inspection process.
How to Achieve the Full Benefits of a Warehouse Digital Twin
A warehouse digital twin needs more than a highly capable WMS, it also needs a reliable technology to capture all the necessary inventory data, and this is where computer vision plays a pivotal role.
Physical AI: Embracing AI’s Moment in Robotics
Manufacturers currently use automation to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, cut costs, and meet growing consumer demands. Yet they face a myriad of disruptions such as labor shortages, limitations of current technologies, and costly downtimes on production lines.
How AI, Robotics, and Automation Power Next Generation Pack Assembly
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Successful pack assembly systems balance throughput, quality, and safety in real time. Integration matters more than buying the most sophisticated robots; it comes down to seamless software logic, modular failover paths, and smart system design.
Legal Considerations for Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) in Warehousing
Understanding the nuances of RaaS agreements is key to maximizing its benefits. From implementation fees to site licensing and maintenance responsibilities, a well-structured contract ensures that both vendors and operators are aligned on expectations and obligations.
What Is the Difference between Wi-Fi and Industrial Wireless Networks?
Traditional wireless technologies like Wi-Fi, while great in consumer environments, often fall short of meeting the stringent requirements of industrial settings and specific factory automation applications and machine deployments.
Multi-camera system with AI and seamless traceability leaves no chance for product defects
VIVALDI Digital Solutions GmbH has developed an exemplary, innovative solution for AI quality inspection in real time. In addition to an edge server with an Intel processor, intelligent image processing plays a key role in the so-called SensorBox.
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How Is Modular Robot Design Reshaping Factory Automation?
How industrial robots work constantly adapts to increased demand and novel technologies, but it enhances automation potential the most. What is shifting and how can production engineers and electronics experts in these sectors fully leverage the benefits?
System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling
With a novel simulation method, robots can guess the weight, softness, and other physical properties of an object just by picking it up.
ForwardX Deploys 435 AMRs at Chery Automobile's Dalian Factory
435 AMRs are now live at Chery's Dalian factory, transforming internal logistics and setting a new benchmark for scalable, intelligent automation in the industry.
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Next Is Automated: Comau Unveils the Future of Automation at Automatica 2025
Comau invites you to preview its latest products which are being launched under the claim "Next is Automated". This concept takes shape within our exhibition space (Hall B5, Stand 331), where intelligent, mobile, and collaborative solutions bring to life an idea of automation capable of adapting to the pace and challenges of contemporary industry.
Automated gripping in perfection - How machine vision sustainably improves pick-and-place and bin picking applications.
Within the industrial value chain, there is a multitude of applications in which robots automatically grasp specific objects. In classic pick-and-place applications, objects are picked up at one location (pick) and placed at another (place).
Plus One Robotics Officially Launches DepalOne: A Scalable, Plug-and-Play Depalletizing Solution
Turnkey automation solution adapts to today's operations while scaling for tomorrow's growth
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FAULHABER Drive Systems at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston from April 30 to May 1 in Hall C at Booth 534
FAULHABER Drive Systems at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston from April 30 to May 1 in Hall C at Booth 534
Faulhaber will be presenting their drive systems for robotics and smart technology. Robots are versatile and can be found in many areas, for example, transporting goods, operating on patients or supporting the agriculture industry. With the help of robots, processes can be automated, the flow of materials optimized and employees relieved. Equipped with FAULHABER drive systems, these robots can take on tasks where the demands on function and applications are high.
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