Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

Now, as a student in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, Patil developed an open-source software package that filled what he saw as a gap in the robotics community.

With the new Codian SR, B&R adds SCARA kinematics to its Codian portfolio of open robot mechanic systems and integrated machine-centric robotics designed for pick-and-place, loading and unloading, ...

Following ABB’s acquisition of B&R in 2017, the integration of B&R controls with ABB technologies was an obvious goal. At Pack Expo 2023, however, it was clear that such integration capabilities ...

Origami-Inspired Microrobot for Precision Surgical Manipulation. 1 Photo of the compliant micro-robot. 2 Exploded view of the delta micro-robot. 3 Cell-level intraoperative sensing. 4 Laser surgery ...