This paper proposes and studies the use of industrial robot manipulators to act as an active steady rest in machining thin-walled workpieces to pre...

Increasing the flexibility and general-purpose applicability of robots is a longstanding goal. Several avenues of research are addressing these goals

Collaborative robots have become a regular part of applications with high part mixes at low volumes

There are a lot of emerging use cases for non-traditional robotics.

Tomorrow’s robotics are taking shape in today’s labs. From package delivery robots and self-driving cars, to surgical snakes and search and rescue ...

Due to the highly customized nature of automotive manufacturing, machine vision inspection systems must be built to detect defects on a number of v...

Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow, a Manufacturing USA institute,

The new World Robotics Report shows that a new record high of 381,000 units were shipped globally in 2017 – an increase of 30 percent compared to t...

Industrial robots are typically locked behind cages for the sake of the safety of human workers.

Machine Vision Enters Augmented and Virtual Reality Environments