Additive manufacturing allows engineers to create large, weight-optimized grippers for handling roof and floor assemblies.

Available with two to five axes of motion, the DR series delta robots are designed for high-speed assembly and handling—especially for automated applications in the packaging and electronics industries.

A safe, flexible gripper enables the cobot to handle a wide variety of parts.

The Grasping Neural Process trains robots to infer invisible physical properties from a history of attempted grasps, and then use the inferred properties to guess which grasps would work well in the future.

Multimedia Editor and Host Jennifer Pierce shares highlights from the ASSEMBLY Audible podcast.

AUBURN HILLS, MI—FANUC America has opened its new 650,000-square-foot West Campus facility here. The expansion increases the footprint in Michigan to more than 2 million square feet and is part of FANUC’s strategic investment plan to support and advance industrial automation in North America. The West Campus represents a $110 million investment built on 67 acres of land.

VERNON HILLS, IL—Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. has introduced the ARIA (Automated Robotic Industrial Assistant), its latest pre-engineered workcell. 

AMHERST, MA—New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, agriculture and warehouse automation.

Next-generation machines that leverage artificial intelligence technology offer manufacturers a way to address labor shortages.