Day: July 22, 2019
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New Scale Robotics launches ‘first multi-tool mount system’ for smallest collaborative robots
New Scale Robotics has launched what it says is “the first multi-tool mounting system for the smallest collaborative robots”. The new NSR-MTM-3-URe Multi-Tool Mount (NSR-MTM) System allows users to mount and control up to three grippers or other tools on one Universal Robots (UR) e-Series cobot.
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Opinion: The new wave of robotic arms helps small businesses
New robots save money and boost innovation through ‘desktop-to-notebook integrated design’, says Johnson Zhu of Elephant Robotics High acquisition costs of new technology are harming small businesses that can’t afford to go all-in like the big companies. Robotics are the lifeblood of large industrial plants and big companies, enabling them to automate multiple tasks while…
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How Automation has Transformed the Delivery Process
The world of logistics has, in recent years, been radically altered by automation. More than ever before, the process of getting a package from one location to another has been put into the hands of machines, and the change is behind many of the recent improvements in packaging and distribution that even small businesses…
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Groupe PSA tests autonomous vehicle through motorway toll
Groupe PSA and Vinci Autoroutes have carried out further tests to assess a vehicle’s ability to drive autonomously at cruising speed and pass through a tollgate in autonomous mode. A first trial was carried out in 2017. Two new complex driving situations were also tested in real traffic conditions on the Vinci Autoroutes network: changing…
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Universal Robots opens authorised training centres in North America
North American distributors of Universal Robots are now opening Authorized Training Centers (ATCs), offering classes spanning basic to advanced programming of UR cobots. The first four ATCs have been launched, with another nine to follow by end of 2019. Universal Robots says it is committed to making collaborative robots (cobots) in the workplace accessible to…
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Kia car to feature ‘first’ CVVD engine technology
Hyundai Motor Group, Kia Motors‘ parent company, has developed the world’s first Continuously Variable Valve Duration (CVVD) technology to feature in future Kia vehicles. The innovation was revealed at Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang alongside the Smartstream G1.6 T-GDi, the first engine to feature the technology. CVVD is claimed to optimise both engine performance and fuel efficiency…
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Subsea valve actuator ‘reduces energy consumption by up to 75 per cent’, says Rexroth
Launched less than a year ago, Bosch Rexroth’s innovative Subsea Valve Actuator (SVA) – an entirely new concept for underwater actuators which offers SIL3 safety levels and up to 75 per cent lower energy consumption – has been granted a Mechanical Engineering Design Award. The SVA was developed to help address some of the challenges…