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Video | February 6, 2013

Demo Shows PLC, RFID, Profinet, and Variable Frequency Drive Technology

Conveyor picking and delivery, conveyor replenishment and new product spotlight: Simogear geared motor delivers 96% mechanical efficiency, NEMA class, for conveyor applications.

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Video | February 6, 2013

Universal Robots from Denmark, new to U.S. Market

6-axis articulated collaborative robots can work along side employees with no safety guarding, automatically stops when it comes into contact with human. Fast, accurate and flexible.

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Video | February 6, 2013

Tolomatic ERD product family

Stainless-steel ERD electric cylinders are ideal for food and beverage and other wash down environments, where corrosion resistance, compact size and flexible motor sizing are important.

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Video | February 6, 2013

Staubli Robotics Fast Picker

New robotic technology for food processing and packaging applications, competes with Delta robots. 200 per minute, full repeatability to .05 mm throughout range of motion.

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Video | February 5, 2013

PLR Camera for Robotic De-racking Applications From Sick

Racks get bent and parts don’t always sit in the same place. This robot uses 2-D and 3-D camera to update its position for accurate picking of parts–-self-contained unit, no PC required, web-based interface can be set up and monitored from an HMI on the factory floor.

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Video | February 5, 2013

Helukabel—Flexible Wires and Cables

Cables & wires (control and data cables, continuous flex cables, hook-up wires, VFD cables), data, network & bus technology (fiber optics, bus cables, industrial Ethernet cables), custom & specialty cables (special requirements, extreme environments, wind & solar power), robotic serv

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Video | February 5, 2013

IQ Motion System with MRJ4 Servos from Mitsubishi Electric

Feature vibration suppression and auto tuning—fiber optic motion bus makes it easy to program high-speed synchronous applications with a graphical user interface.

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Video | February 4, 2013

Robotics smoothes tote loading

Pack Flow Concepts showed a robotic system that takes individual packs from a tote or case and places them efficiently in a delivery tote.

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Video | February 4, 2013

Robotic picking at 300/min

Schneider's Robotic cartoning and case-loading system uses a delta-style robot and a machine vision system to locate and pick items at speeds to 300/min.

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Video | February 4, 2013

A robot for $22,000?

Baxter is a $22,000 robot from Rethink Robotics that performs repetitive tasks at modest speeds. Force-sensing technologies make it extremely safe for operation around human beings.

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Video | February 4, 2013

Collaborative robot

Lightweight, collaborative robot designed by Universal Robots is meant to be used in close proximity with humans and can be moved around from position to position in the plant.

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Video | February 4, 2013

Dual-head robotic picking

The Motoman Robotics Div. of Yaskawa Americas featured a dual-head robotic picking system that handles up to 185 picks/min.

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Video | February 4, 2013

Robot picks 180/min

High-speed packaging robot from Fanuc that is especially suitable for food and beverage applications does up to 180 picks/min.

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Video | February 1, 2013

Robotic picking in high speed

The TP80 fast picker from Stäubli Robotics is ideal for high speeds and low payloads with high accuracy.

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Video | January 29, 2013

Robotic programming simplified

Labview library for a Yaskawa robot was on display at the National Instruments' Automate 2013 booth, and the demo included the use of a Sick Ranger laser 3D camera.

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