Robotics Reference Materials

Description: Robotics adoption is accelerating across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and service industries. What was once confined to controlled, predictable environments is now being deployed into ...

Description: Analyze planetary joint design for humanoid robots, focusing on torque density, impact resistance, thermal management, and rigidity under high-dynamic motion conditions. ...

Description: Robotics is no longer a futuristic concept confined to science fiction; it is a rapidly evolving field transforming industries and daily life. From large manufacturing corporations to individual ...

Description: Robotics has become an integral part of everyday lives with its conitnuous innovation and research in most existing markets. ...

Description: Industrial automation involves using control systems, such as PLCs, and information technology to manage and control industrial processes. By automating repetitive, hazardous, or complex tasks, ...

Description: The Fascination with Robotic Hands ...

Description: Modern collaborative robots enable the efficient automation of production processes. By closely working together, robots and humans can handle even flexible and complex tasks with high productivity. ...

Description: Mobile robots - whether it be automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems or autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) - are playing an increasing important role in mobile intralogistics because they significantly ...

Description: Modern collaborative robots make it possible to efficiently automate production processes for which, until recently, this was still considered impossible. Thanks to the close collaboration between ...

Description: Cartesian robots move according to Cartesian coordinate geometry in one-, two-, or three-dimensional space. These robots move along one to three linear axes that intersect at the point of origin at ...

Description: Humanoid robots represent the cutting edge of robotics, offering unique capabilities and versatility across various industries, from warehouses to disaster relief sites. However, this advanced ...

Description: Any maintenance schedule serves the purpose of keeping machinery running as long as possible and without defects. However, there are different types of maintenance schedules that take various ...

Description: Why robots are not going to take over all jobs in the manufacturing industry ...

Description: Most companies across the globe are no stranger to automation in some form or another. However, even with this widespread adoption there are still aspects of automation relatively few companies are ...

Description: Our Case Study THK: Shaping the Future of Service Robotics shares how the robot revolution is impacting everyday life and creating new opportunities for robotics manufacturers. Learn the factors that ...

Description: A machine builder approached Visumatic with a fastening application for fully automated assembly with an aggressive throughput requirement. ...

Description: A machine builder approached Visumatic with a fastening application for fully automated assembly with an aggressive throughput requirement. ...

Description: In today's manufacturing landscape, the challenge of sustaining a skilled welding workforce is a common concern. The industry is grappling with a unique set of challenges: rapid growth, an aging ...

Description: In the popular imagination, robots are large, dumb machines for doing dull, muscular, repetitive tasks with precision and accuracy. That’s only part of today’s robotics world. Robots now ...

Description: Autonomous robots for the Moon ...

Description: Dunnage, most commonly used in packaging, is used across the manufacturing sector. In automotive formed dunnage applications, industrial robots increase speed and accuracy for numerous tasks like ...

Description: Along with a mid-model design change, this automotive interior trim maker saw their production target triple. Already struggling with some quality concerns, they met with Visumatic to review the ...

Description: Automatic tighten screw equipment is also known as automatic screw locking machine, automatic screw feeding machine, automatic screw locking machine, automatic screw locking machine, industrial ...

Description: Hexapod 6-axis parallel kinematics positioners are more compact and flexible compared to traditional stacks of single axis stages. Their ability to change the pivot point with a single software ...

Description: A Hexapod Robot is a 6-axis, parallel-kinematics machine often used for automated precision positioning and alignment of parts and components ranging from miniature optics to large panels. As the ...

Description: The market for autonomous cleaning robots is growing rapidly. Experts estimate that by 2025, there will be five times as many robots in use as there are today. No wonder, given the market for skilled ...

Description: Automatic lock screw machine is not a big drawback from design and principle itself, but many times we will overlook one problem: screw quality. Domestic manufacturers of screw screw inferior relative ...

Description: This Viper MBC screwdriving system integrated a FANUC SCARA robot arriving complete to the machine builder. They were able to mount the robot and program screwdriving coordinates in one day. ...

Description: An appliance manufacturer purchased a handheld automatic screwdriver to speed up production on a fan assembly. Their in-house machine build group began exploring the idea of taking automation to the ...

Description: A machine builder was working on a very challenging assembly project for an aerospace component assembly application. They began searching for a fastening solution to accurately and repeatably drive ...

Description: A robot that is capable of avoiding obstacles is known as an obstacle avoidance robot, and it operates autonomously. This means that when it encounters an obstacle while moving forward, it will ...

Description: Robotics has been identified as one of the top technology and innovation trends in the Big Ideas 2023 annual report published by Ark Invest. According to the report, the adoption rate of robotics is ...

Description: In 2023, robots have become a familiar sight in various industries. While traditional humanoid robots may take up space and require proximity to humans to communicate, cobots have proven to be an ...

Description: Investment research firm EqualOcean recently published its outlook for 2023, in which it closely examined the top trends in the Chinese technology industry and interviewed experts to identify 6 of the ...

Description: The end effector (also referred to as end-of-arm tooling) is one of, if not the, most important component in a robotic arm. Without the end effector, a robotic arm is essentially useless. Whether ...

Description: New demands from consumers: There is a greater need for personalized products in the industry. The market is looking for products that are high-end, intelligent and customizable. This forces ...

Description: Labor shortages and rising costs around the world are two major headwinds to the retail and service sectors, opening up new opportunities of automation transformation. To better capture this newfound ...

Description: A collaborative robot's revolution takes its roots from a traditional industrial robot and its robot vision, developing into the safe collaboration between a robot arm and a human and the integrated ...

Description: In today's competitive environment, the deployment of robots does not guarantee successful automation. Hence, using RPA(Robotic process automation) metrics can help organizations define the level of ...

Description: Today, we have assembly robots to construct and build the robot assembly line. It is based on a robot or robot arm, creating various products from large-scale to small items. ...

Description: On September 24, 2022, the Dobot Rizhao smart factory produced the 10,000th cobot. This is a historical milestone that began two years ago when the construction of the factory began. To date, Dobot ...

Description: Robotic palletizing is a helpful hand manufacturing application for many enterprises. However, there are still a lot of bottlenecks and challenges of automation in the packaging production lines. ...

Description: "...In university labs across the world, material scientists, computer programmers and fabric designers are working to advance robotic clothing at a rapid pace." ...

Description: Through the multiple diversity of application robots, sorting robots are paving their way to groundbreaking transformation. Sorting robots are widely used to automate highly-repetitive and boring ...

Description: Here's how the invention of necrobotics happened. ...

Description: We will talk about driving trends in the semiconductor industry and its opportunities for the future on a way to semiconductor automation with robot. ...

Description: Over the last decade, we have seen cobots moving beyond the low-hanging fruit of machine tending and material handling. Cobots nowadays are built to work safely with humans becoming increasingly ...

Description: On the positive side, modern manufacturing paves the way for technological breakthroughs and diverse opportunities to increase production efficiency. Automation is the key to success in meeting ...

Description: What are the ways to reduce labor costs and improve manufacturing? According to the report by Accenture, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have experienced disruptions in the supply chain from COVID-19. ...

Description: The DOBOT CR10 robot arm creates extra benefits while automating a CNC machine. The deployment of the CR10 robot arm ensures a high return on investment, saving labor costs, as one cobot allows to ...

Description: DOBOT is happy to announce that the DOBOT CR5 collaborative robot was awarded the outstanding MTBF certificate. We at DOBOT provide high-quality products to our robotic community. The MTBF certificate ...

Description: We, at DOBOT, spoke with Nittin about his experience of using our products to develop manufacturing. Recently, he purchased MG400, and we value his honest customer feedback. Nittin shared with us his ...

Description: Today, many researchers expect changes in the human labor market and create future job trends with the cobots' increased use. The recent rise of collaborative robots causes the job shift and creates ...

Description: For the three-year Covid-19 spread, it has become a daily routine for multiple businesses to seek ways to optimize their manufacturing and working structure to get better results, cut costs, and drive ...

Description: Collaborative robots being affordable hit the food manufacturing trends as the cost barrier lowers. They do not require an industrial level of expertise, making them more cost-efficient than ...

Description: Palletizing is quite a cumbersome task for a lot of manufacturing lines. Traditional palletizing is a repetitive and tedious process, which can be delegated to a collaborative robot. Many businesses ...

Description: Automation is the key to success. That is why businesses constantly seek novel ways to automate their industrial processes. On the journey to automated manufacturing, it's crucial to highlight ...

Description: DOBOT's MG400 is the most cost-effective robotic arm to optimize the manufacturing process in dispensing. MG400 can provide quality control through a vision system. Thus, even in times of COVID-19, it ...

Description: Collaborative robots are eco-friendly, creating an ergonomic future. They conserve the environment by providing multiple automated solutions to establish relationships between cobots and the wise use ...

Description: For many years, the use of robots in production was an image you encountered primarily in the automotive industry. Behind high fences, giant robot arms assembled heavy parts. Now, robots have changed, ...

Description: For intralogistics of the future, Schiller intralogistics automation and SICK are collaborating on a platform solution for a modular indoor/outdoor vehicle fleet. This fleet is made up of autonomous ...

Description: We will further outline the critical points of installing DOBOT robotic arms using the MG400 collaborative robot. We will also provide some handy hints on how to build robotic arm. ...

Description: A precise pick and place robotic arm enables an efficient performance due to accuracy and speed of operations. Collaborative robots or cobots ensure fast, stable, and safe deployment of manufacturing ...

Description: Read further on how cobots are used in food processing and food manufacturing and challenges on the way to its automation. ...

Description: Robotic arms are becoming everyday friends of humans operating in the healthcare industry. They are qualified and nimble enough to increase credibility among manufacturers, employees, and users. ...

Description: Being able to contain suspect material or parts and root cause the issue to reduce more lost time and profitability is key to recovery. And being able to do that quickly using automated systems can ...

Description: Robotic material handling is a part of the necessary manufacturing automation. Cobots are here to help manufacturers build an effective robotic tending system. They cannot replace humans as they work ...

Description: At the end of 2020, mobile robots were deployed in just over 9,000 separate customer sites despite a difficult start to the year. In fact, experts predict that deployments will increase to over 53,000 ...

Description: The car manufacturing industry applies a robust use of robots to automate their production lines. Robotic arms have drastically changed how we operate and cover worker responsibilities. Keeping in ...

Description: Multiple manufacturers can benefit from robotic welding by applying it to their manufacturing lines. Robotic welding is a key to automation in manufacturing ensuring a high level of precision, ...

Description: Automotive manufacturing is a popular industry for robotic use. Car plants deploy industrial robots for rich application sets, including welding, assembly, painting, and others, inside and outside a ...

Description: Robots have all kinds of advantages in industry. Amongst other things, they enable the automated production of small batch sizes, ease the strain on staff, improve quality standards, and boost ...

Description: Within semiconductor manufacturing, robotics provides a lot of assistance in the day-to-day work within the production process and in cleanrooms. Line-guided, stationary, or mobile: autonomous ...

Description: Collaborative robots ("cobots") is the fastest growing segment in industrial automation. Cobots interact with humans in a shared workspace, whereas traditional robots function in relative isolation ...

Description: Robot positioning systems are long tracks in warehouse, aerospace, and automotive facilities to let one robot perform multiple tasks. Also called robot-transfer units or RTUs or 7th-axis systems, ...

Description: Cartesian coordinate geometry is an excellent method for mapping three-dimensional space in a simple, easy-to-understand numerical system. In the Cartesian system for three-dimensional space, there ...

Description: Haven’t most of us, during childhood, once hoped for a robot that could pick up our toys, place them back and organize them so that our parents wouldn’t scold us for making a mess? Today, ...

Description: An automotive manufacturer was re-tooling their line for a new front grill model. Having been successful with Visumatic for nearly two decades, we partnered again to tackle this latest fastening ...

Description: Available in a range of performance capabilities and prices, robots are becoming ubiquitous in all types of industrial production operations. Understanding the capabilities of each robot type is key ...

Description: First, a Cartesian system is one that moves in three, orthogonal axes — X, Y, and Z — according to the Cartesian coordinates. (Although it should be noted that a rotary axis — in the ...

Description: Four students from Michigan Technological University participated in SICK’s TiM$10K Challenge for the 2020-2021 school year. Travis Momsen, Alex Langerak, Jared Smith, and Adam Misch created a ...

Description: According to the USDA, 88 percent of American farms are classified as “small” and only 41 percent of small farmers make a profit each year, leaving the rest failing to break even and ...

Description: Loading and unloading is the core business of mobile robots and the company Braun Sondermaschinen GmbH has developed a mobile robot that can do this autonomously. ...

Description: As the world's largest supplier with opportunities for quick customizations and fast turnaround time, THK has been instrumental in sustaining surgical robotics practices. ...

Description: Robots have become pervasive in manufacturing worldwide. According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the North American robotics market has set new records this year, which aligns with ...

Description: As the world of robots expands in the industrial space, it's prudent to get to up to speed on the multiple types available and their capabilities. ...

Description: FedEx has installed industrial robotic arms to do what is considered the "most difficult" job to automate in a sorting facility in Memphis, USA. ...

Description: Developed over four decades ago by NASA and the U.S. Military, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is now considered a viable, safe solution for mass production of autonomous vehicles, robots, ...

Description: Ball screw nut pair is only used to bear the axial load, radial force, bending moment will make the ball screw nut auxiliary surface contact stress and other loads, which may cause permanent damage to ...

Description: When designing a belt drive system, the first step is to choose the most suitable belt for the application. But the pulleys also play an important role in the performance of the belt - especially in ...

Description: From food processing to automotive production, industrial robots are becoming ubiquitous. Highly-automated and programmable, these machines execute repetitive tasks with high precision, reliability ...

Description: When sizing a linear system, the first application parameters that come to mind are probably travel, load, and speed. In addition, details about the load's placement, the move profile, and the duty ...

Description: If you have already shopped for a robot you have probably already been confronted with the number of axes that are included in the robot. Perhaps, if you are new to the robotic world you may wonder: ...

Description: The shortest path between two points is a straight line. But if you're designing a linear-motion system, you'll have to consider structural support, guides, drives, seals, lubrication, and accessories ...

Description: The selection and use of tools/bits and fixtures are very important in the process of engraving and cutting works with CNC router machines. Incorrect use can easily cause damage to the tools, even the ...

Description: When designing and configuring an automated warehouse, one design goal is to keep the system as light and compact as possible. Depending on the size of the load being moved, there are two common types ...

Description: The trend in conventional linear and rotational applications is moving away from robots to energy-efficient and cost-optimized systems, as manufacturers often don't require all the functions, large ...

Description: To pick a robot, first evaluate the application's needs. That starts with profiling the job's load, orientation, speed, travel, precision, environment and duty cycle, sometimes called LOSTPED ...

Description: Cartesian robots operate in two or three axes along the Cartesian coordinate system of X, Y, and Z. While SCARA and 6-axis robots are more widely recognized, Cartesian systems can be found in nearly ...

Description: With automation on the rise, the case for linear robotics, has expanded. Linear robots are a type of industrial robot with two or three principal axes that move in a straight line rather than rotate, ...