Force- and power-limited robot arms, are only as safe as the quality of cobot workspace design, explains a columnist.

You want welds that stay consistent, but quality can drift when parts shift, fit-up varies, or different operators take over.

Manufacturing pressure shows up in familiar ways: weld quality can drift from one operator or shift to the next, you still ...

Collaborative robots, or cobots, are increasingly becoming a practical tool for manufacturers seeking flexible automation ...

Rösler UK has taken another step in advancing automated surface finishing with the installation of a new collaborative robot ...

Pailton Engineering expands automation with a new FAIRINO FR10 cobot to boost precision and production efficiency.

Collaborative robots (cobots) are designed to work alongside humans in a safe manner. Their use in industry over the past 10+ years has proven their ability to be used safely. But just like any other ...

When the International Federation of Robots (IFR) first started collating collaborative robot data in 2017, this new breed of robot had a market share of just 2.8%. The IFR’s latest report showed that ...

Czech writer Karel Čapek first coined the term ‘Robot’ in his 1920 play R.U.R. about a dystopian future in which artificial, manufactured “roboti” act human-like and perform tasks in servitude to ...

The race toward commercializing robots outside of heavy industry and science is heating up. Yesterday, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup called Collaborative Robotics, a.k.a. Cobot, announced a ...