LeafyPack, a manufacturer of packaging automation systems for the cannabis industry, is expanding into robotics, artificial intelligence and vision systems. The company said this marks “a defining ...

Companies like UPS, FedEx and DHL are increasingly turning to automation in their warehouse processes to work toward greater efficiency and lower costs.

A new free Coursera course from Sweden’s Lund University and Cognibotics teaches robotics motion programming for industrial ...

Robots in Amazon’s warehouses are taking on a new role of boxing up orders, and they do so much more efficiently and quickly than the human workers they replace. As Reuters reports, Amazon has been ...

Advanced packaging has evolved far beyond the simple stacking of dies and connecting of interposers. Once a passive conduit between silicon and the outside world, it has become an active component of ...

Inverting the Fanuc LR Mate 200iD six-axis robot (rear, center) significantly reduced the machine’s footprint. A creative "vanishing tray" design uses pneumatic cylinders to drop empty trays through ...

As packaging operations become more automated, design decisions are increasingly driven by the needs of machines rather than the people who handle, open, and rely on the product.

Soft robotics has quickly moved from a niche research topic to a practical technology with real-world applications—from gentle grippers in ...

The cobot feeder includes a storage and retrieval assembly with a UR force- and power-limited robot pedestal, enclosed steel ...

For the Human-Robot Interaction research community, the authors call for deeper engagement with labor sociology, urban studies, and policy analysis . Evaluating robots solely through metrics of task ...