New Record Sales of Collaborative Robots Reveal Increasing Demand for End-Of-Arm-Tooling

With a growth of 23 percent in annual installations of collaborative robots (cobots) from 2017 to 2018, the new World Robotics Report, published by International Federation of Robotics shows a huge demand for end-of-arm-tooling, (EoAT). In 2018 almost 14,000 new cobot arms were installed, and if this rise continues, that number will double in approximately three […]

SMTA International Show Preview 2019: At the Show, Day 2

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It’s now Tuesday. As an editor, I’ve attended a lot of keynotes in my time, but the one this morning was exceptional. Thanks to SMTA for bringing Adam Steltzner of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to the conference. He spoke about the experience of designing and building the landing system for the Curiosity Mars Rover, launched […]