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Dual-head robotic picking
 Video | January 30, 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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Robotic picking at 300/min
 Video | January 30, 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.
Collaborative robot
 Video | January 28, 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.
A robot for $22,000?
 Video | January 28, 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
Yaskawa LoadWorld
Machine Product Brief
| January 24, 2013

Robot solution for machine tending

LoadWorld® is a pre-engineered standard robot solution for machine tending that can be integrated with new or existing machines.
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News
| January 22, 2013

Keynoter at ProMat/Automate show refutes 60 Minutes' premise on robotics

The venerable and popular 60 Minutes Show ruffled more than a few feathers in the manufacturing sector with a January 13 show suggesting that the growth of robotics and automation in the U.S. comes at the cost of jobs.
Empty tubes are picked from boxes by the robot’s twin-row end effector and placed in the filler’s pucks.
Machine Case Study
| January 3, 2013

Norway's Ello turns to robots for an automation solution

Filling, insertion into trays, secondary packaging, and palletizing of tubes is done at 155 tubes/min by a tightly integrated series of robotic systems that require only one operator.
Small-footprint top-load case packer
 Video | December 5, 2012

Small-footprint top-load case packer

Prodec exhibited a very compact case packer whose top-load format makes it an especially flexible solution.
Robotic case packer for 14,000 bottles/hr
 Video | December 4, 2012

Robotic case packer for 14,000 bottles/hr

The Robomax 200 from Italproject, which is capable of case packing 14,000 bottles/hr, uses a specially designed feedscrew principle and an ABB robot.
Pack Expo 2012: Twin-head machine features robotics
 Video | November 30, 2012

Pack Expo 2012: Twin-head machine features robotics

The 1702 tube filling system from Norden, part of the Coesia Group, is a twin-head machine that uses an ABB robot to feed tubes into the tube holder chain.

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