Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.50
February 02, 2021
Vacuum cleaner dust extractor prototype illustrates J850 Pro 3D printer from Stratasys. Image courtesy of Stratasys. Stratasys Ltd. has unveiled a new solution in the company’s family of multi-material enterprise PolyJet 3D printers. The new J850 Pro 3D printer offers J8 series capabilities tailored specifically to engineering needs, without full color. It enables engineers to produce prototypes for concept verification, design validation and functional performance using the latest materials, including transparent VeroUltra Clear. The J850 Pro complements the existing J850 Prime for designers and engineers who also need full-color printing. With its capacity for seven materials jetted simultaneously, fast printing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.96
February 02, 2021
…isotropic TMPS infill creates strong parts for end-use applications. Vacuum sintering in the Desktop Metal furnace at temperatures of up to 1400°C produces parts and mechanical properties that are similar to castings and meet or exceed Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF) standards. Broad portfolio of materials. The Studio System 2 is launching with 316L stainless steel. A broad portfolio of more materials that use the new streamlined, two-step process is in active R&D with new releases slated to rollout in 2021. In addition, the Studio System 2 will be backwards-compatible through the use of the debinder, with all materials previously…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.73
January 12, 2021
…warehouse robots, disinfection robots, commercial cleaning robots, and domestic vacuum-cleaning robots where low latency, low power consumption, and high reliability are critical. About PAL PAL provides 360° horizontal field of view with 110° vertical field of view at up to 9 megapixels with a usable depth range of 10 meters (30 ft.) and no minimum depth distance. DreamVu said it can generate an entire 3D occupancy map from every frame, making PAL an ideal sensor for navigation systems in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), providing obstacle detection and obstacle avoidance (ODOA) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This understanding of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.13
September 22, 2020
…electron microscopes and X-ray microscopes—can only operate in a vacuum. That’s a problem because in a vacuum the liquid in each chamber evaporates instead of forming a gel. Kolmakov and his colleagues at NIST and at the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste in Italy, solved the issue and demonstrated 3D gel printing in liquids by placing an ultrathin barrier—a thin sheet of silicon nitride—between the vacuum and the liquid chamber. The thin sheet protects the liquid from evaporating (as it would ordinarily do in vacuum) but allows X-rays and electrons to penetrate into the liquid. The method enabled the team to use…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.80
September 15, 2020
…board, creates solid, fully fused, void-free structures that sustain vacuum in a pressured autoclave at elevated temperatures without the need for add-on coatings, says Dennis Palmer, the company’s vice president of sales. Though the technology has greatly improved the integrity and quality of large-scale AM parts, many potential customers remain skeptical. “They are gun shy and now we have to prove that our prints work,” he explains, adding that the customer tests have provided some valuable lessons. “No one gives us anything easy that they want to print—they give us their most difficult projects,” Palmer says. “It’s been a good…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.79
January 08, 2020
…are constantly helping us to improve our lives. Robotic vacuum cleaners allow us to put our feet up instead of manually cleaning floors, and personal assistants in our smartphones mean we don’t even have to move our thumbs to make a command. We are accepting robotics and artificial intelligence into our lives more and more, because it makes things easier. Warehouses should be adopting this attitude too. Collaborative robots, or cobots, are already helping some warehouse operators to achieve a better work-life balance. Cobots are robots that are designed to work alongside or directly interact with humans in a shared…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.54
August 26, 2019
…easier, robotic cleaning is also a hot topic. Robot vacuum cleaners have been around for a while now, but only recently are they becoming widely available and cost efficient for the general public. These smart robo-vacs come with the ability to be programmed to spring to life at a certain time every day. With proximity sensors and edge detection, this piece of technology is only going to increase in popularity with those who don’t have the time to vacuum their homes on a regular basis. Similarly, robotic lawn mowers are also available to buy to make garden maintenance a breeze.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.99
March 15, 2019
…Community College in Williamsville, New York, who made a vacuum engine. “In general, we look for high quality, original parts that haven’t been made before or parts that are familiar yet feature a unique, new design. We like eye-catching designs that would look nice on display because we do show them off at trade shows in a special case. We get many comments on them by people all over the country. They demonstrate how impressive and innovative people can be with Mastercam, so we encourage entrants to really think beyond the norm. They may have made something like that during…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.22
February 24, 2019
…used to quickly produce equipment like braces, clamps and vacuum pumps at remote hospitals in Kenya. The founders learned, however, that a bigger pain point was the lack of access to CAD files, so they have developed a cloud-based system that provides hospitals with access to files along with training on how to 3D print parts. “Our customers are healthcare facilities that don’t have access to the supply chains they need and over 40% don’t have the equipment needed to treat their patients. We bring the ability to locally manufacture what they need, when they need it. That is a…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 26.37
December 19, 2018
…manufacturers take full advantage of the ease of use, cost-effectiveness, and safety of collaborative robot arms. They include electric, vacuum, and magnetic grippers; the award-winning Gecko gripping technology; and a “2.5D” vision system. OnRobot's product range also includes force/torque sensors, screwdriver and sanding kits, and tool changers. The Danish company said its end-of-arm tooling is supported by the free Learn OnRobot e-learning platform. It is designed to make it easy to deploy collaborative automation for tasks such as such as packaging, quality control, materials handling, machine tending, assembly, and surface finishing, regardless of skill level or previous robotics experience.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.07
September 04, 2018
OnRobot has acquired Purple Robotics, developers of vacuum grippers specifically for cobots. The acquisition takes place two months after the OnRobot merger of three robotics companies from the United States, Hungary and Denmark that created one global player with a focus on the market for industrial robot accessories. With the acquisition of Purple Robotics, OnRobot can now offer its partners a dual vacuum gripper. Purple Robotics was established by the three Danish “super-nerds” Lasse Kieffer, Henrik Tillitz Hansen and Peter Nadolny Madsen, all of whom have a background as product developers at Universal Robots. OnRobot is now infusing this expertise…
