Tag: tend
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ICON sees 20 percent production boost and 40 percent cost reduction through Formic robotics
Formic, a provider of automation across American manufacturing, says its automation partnership with ICON Injection Molding, which involved the deployment of Formic’s Tend solution, has been “successful”. Arizona-based ICON Injection Molding, which produces plastic parts for laboratory use and defense equipment for clients like Axon, recognized the need to automate but was unable to overcome…
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Cambridge Consultants unveils ‘dexterous robot with the human touch’
Technology research and development company Cambridge Consultants has unveiled what it describes as a “dexterous robot with the human touch”. (See video below.) Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants has developed Hank, a robot with flexible robotic fingers inspired by the human hand. Hank uses a pioneering sensory system embedded in its pneumatic fingers, providing a…
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Veo Robotics could make all industrial robots collaborative
Traditional industrial robots tend to be very large and potentially dangerous, which is why they tend to be caged off and kept separate from human workers. But a new company called Veo Robotics says it has the technology to transform traditional industrial robotic arms into safe machines that humans can work alongside, within close proximity.…
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Tend launches robot performance management software
Tend has launched a cloud-based monitoring and analysis application for both industrial and collaborative robots. The company calls the software in.view, and launched it at the RoboBusiness show in Santa Clara, CA, this week. Tend in.view – short for intelligent view – software allows users to remotely monitor and analyze the performance of their…
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Tend claims launch of first ‘smart cloud’ to enable remote control of robots
Tend says its new in.control platform is the first smart cloud robotics platform for remote control, monitoring and analysis of production lines. Tend announced it has introduced the first hardware-agnostic, smart cloud robotics software platform that allows manufacturers to remotely control, monitor and analyze the performance of their robots and production equipment from their mobile…