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Grabit Introduces New Line of Electroadhesion-Based Robotic Grippers

Grabit Inc., a manufacturing automation and material handling solutions company, announced today that it is launching a new line of robotic grippers based on the company's electroadhesion technology. Electroadhesion is a highly-flexible, ultra-low energy technology that enables the handling of delicate, and difficult to grasp parts. Grabit grippers are simple to operate and eliminate the need for bulky, energy-intensive, and costly vacuum pumps or custom mechanical gripper attachments.

12 Feb 2015

Adoption of Advanced Robots to Boost Industrial Productivity, Lower Total Labor Costs

The use of advanced industrial robots is nearing the point of takeoff, a development that could power a new wave of productivity growth in many industries and lead to changes of up to 5 percentage points in the cost competitiveness of major export economies relative to the U.S., according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

11 Feb 2015

New Four-Axis Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm for Life Science Research

Life science researchers seeking to bolster their automated workflows with a self-correcting, learning robot can now employ a new four-axis “selective compliance articulated robot arm,” or SCARA, from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

11 Feb 2015

Fetch Robotics to Bring Inaugural Robots to Market with $3 Million in Series A Financing

Fetch Robotics today announced that it has raised $3 million in Series A financing from O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and Shasta Ventures. Fetch Robotics will use the funding to bring their inaugural robots to market. The robots will provide solutions for the logistics and light industrial markets, as well as for other human-robot collaboration opportunities.

10 Feb 2015

Industrial Robotics News

Grabit Introduces New Line of Electroadhesion-Based Robotic Grippers

Adoption of Advanced Robots to Boost Industrial Productivity, Lower Total Labor Costs

New Four-Axis Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm for Life Science Research

Fetch Robotics to Bring Inaugural Robots to Market with $3 Million in Series A Financing

KUKA Small Robot Entertains Travelers at Aursnes Ferry Dock

Festo’s Automation Solutions Help Laboratories Handle Large Number of Samples

QinetiQ North America’s DriveRobotics Transforms Manned Industrial Vehicles into Unmanned Robots

SIMM 2015 to Feature Exhibition and Seminars on Robotics Applications

Comprehensive Research Report on USA Factory Automation Market

Adept Technology Announces SmartVision MX Vision Processor for Fixed Industrial Robots

A Brain-Inspired Robot Navigation System Cuts Energy Use By 99 Percent

A New AI Tool Accelerates and Enhances Early Dementia Diagnosis

Researchers Create Magnetic Soft Millirobot That Moves and Senses Its Surroundings in Real Time

New Soft Robotic Add-On Provides Safer, More Comfortable Colonsocopy

Nidec Drive Technology’s Omnidirectional Drive Unit to be Adopted for Use in Honda’s New “UNI-ONE”

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AI Governance Frameworks for Scientific Applications

Inside the Cross-Sector Collaborations Driving AI in Biotech

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