Tag: technique
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Orbital Welding and its Advantages
Orbital welding is a cutting-edge welding technique that offers numerous advantages across various industries, from aerospace to pharmaceuticals. This automated welding process employs a mechanized system to rotate and move the welding electrode around a fixed workpiece, ensuring precision and consistency. The benefits of orbital welding are multifaceted, contributing to improved efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness…
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How Additive Manufacturing Works and Provides Benefits
Additive manufacturing is known as 3D printing. Computer-aided programs are used to create 3D objects. Additive manufacturing is getting popular nowadays. It is a very cost-effective process to design the objects. Objects are designed with the help of materials such as plastic, ceramic or metal powder. After the design, these printing objects are assembled with…
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Scientists unveil robotic grippers ‘delicate enough to lift egg yolks and precise enough to lift a human hair’
Engineering researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new type of flexible, robotic grippers that they say “are able to lift delicate egg yolks without breaking them, and that are precise enough to lift a human hair”. (See video below.) The work has applications for both soft robotics and biomedical technologies. The work…
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MIT develops navigation method to help delivery robots find the front door
MIT has developed a navigation method that is designed to help delivery robots find the front door of an address. (See video below.) Standard approaches for robotic navigation involve mapping an area ahead of time, then using algorithms to guide a robot toward a specific goal or GPS coordinate on the map. MIT says that,…
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Nissan teaches robots to make replacement parts for old cars
Breakthrough could mean parts for discontinued models become more widely available for customers Nissan has developed a new way to use robots to make car parts out of sheet steel, a breakthrough that could make replacement parts for discontinued models more widely available for customers. Nissan hopes to commercialize the proprietary technique, known as dual-sided…
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Goudsmit Magnetics improves its gripper for picking up sheet metal
Goudsmit Magnetics has unveiled its new and improved magnetic gripper for the automated pick-up, placement or positioning of steel or other ferromagnetic objects. The company says the end effector is ideal for removing sheet metal from presses, de-stacking products from boxes (bin picking), assembling steel parts or handling of punched steel parts, blanks and perforated…