Shark Robotics, French and European leader in Unmanned Ground Vehicles, has announced a disinfection add-on for the Boston Dynamics Spot robot, that is designed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
Growing production demands and a major labour shortage motivated a large-scale sandwich producer to automate a high-speed sandwich stacking application.
As half a million Tube passengers travel through central London every day, the capital’s jam-packed train carriages are already at overcapacity. Transport for London (TfL)’s Crossrail project needed to ensure that all standards for smoke ventilation were met.
Manufacturers are increasingly requesting maximum flexibility from their OEM suppliers. Plants where products are moved with rigid timing between coupled subsystems do not provide this flexibility, whereas independently controlled workpiece carriers (WPC) can make all the difference. The added flexibility can bring enormous benefits for both manufacturers and their OEM suppliers.
A Universal Robots UR10e, supplied by RARUK Automation, has removed the need to manually unload and pack wire forms produced at John Binns & Son (Springs) Ltd.