Automation
Record Robot Sales
A strong third-quarter push drove North American robot sales to a record high with three months to go and point to 2021 being the biggest year ever.
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Global Robotics Market Eyes Return to Growth
Much as the coronavirus crested in waves across the globe last year, the global robotics market ebbed and flowed in different places at different times.
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Robot Orders Return to Pre-Pandemic Demand Levels
North American Q2 robot orders jumped 67% compared to year-ago levels, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), with systems for plastics & rubber rising 51%.
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Parts Winners of SPE’s Biennial Thermoforming Conference
This year, there were 10 winners within five categories—silver and gold, for vacuum forming, pressure forming, twin sheet, 3D printed tooling, and parts produced with automation and new technology.
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New Plastics Equipment and Consumables Supplier Launches
Globeius will extend to North America and expand upon what Plastics Solutions Inc. has brought to the Latin American plastics industry for almost 40 years.
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Lockheed Martin Works with MakerBot for its AI-Assisted Lunar Rover Project for NASA
MakerBot 3D printers have been in use for about five years and have provided easily accessible 3D printing for a host of projects for Lockheed Martin’s team of engineers.
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MGS Promotes Shawn Krenke
The integrated manufacturing company named Krenke its Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Automation.
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With AI: Trust But Verify
A growing number view AI not as “artificial intelligence”, wholly supplanting the human with computing power, but rather as “augmented intelligence”, working alongside a person’s mind to its betterment not replacement.
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Fakuma: High-Speed Robot Series Extended
Wittmann Battenfeld will extend its Sonic series of high-speed robots at Fakuma, introducing the Sonic 108 targeting smaller injection molding machines.
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Lanxess Develops Concept for Radar Sensors with Integrated Thermal Management
Using its high-performance thermoplastics, Lanxess’ thermal management concept is aimed at autonomous driving.
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