By Noah Bougie, lead instrumentation and controls engineer, ACS, and Scott Blais, Jr., sales and business development manager, mk North America Generic, off-the-shelf product-moving systems are often the hidden bottlenecks that limit advanced robotic automation system cycle times. While industry media often focuses on the brains of automation, such as vision systems and artificial intelligence […]
UK operators are searching about 6.7 times more for CRM and ERP software than for the tools that turn completed work into cash, according to a Klipboard analysis of UK search data, at a time when the number of industrial robots working in factories worldwide has reached around five million. The gap matters because every […]
Warehouses have changed faster in the past decade than in the previous fifty years. Automated vehicles, robotic pickers and conveyors now share the floor with people. Those people still need protecting, and the right high-visibility workwear is central to that. This guide covers the warehouse PPE the job demands. It also shows why automation raises […]
Google DeepMind has demonstrated a new robotics training technique in which its Gemini 4 Argon AI model learns a physical task by watching video and then transfers the resulting behavior to Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot. The demonstration forms part of the launch of Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s latest frontier AI model, which the company says […]
Swedish robotics startup 120ft has emerged from stealth after raising €576,000 in angel funding to develop autonomous microfactories using humanoid robots for local manufacturing. The Stockholm-based company is developing modular factories designed to enable consumer brands to assemble products locally in smaller batches rather than relying on large production runs and lengthy international supply chains. […]
