Category Industry News

Comau is integrating Nvidia Jetson, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab to speed AI-enabled industrial robotics, with implications for adaptive welding, simulation and safer cell design.

Research into photonic computing points to faster, lower-energy AI processing, with potential implications for adaptive robotic welding cells, cobot control and real-time quality monitoring.

Real-time execution is emerging as a competitive advantage in manufacturing, with direct implications for robotic welding cells, cobot deployment, quality control and production agility.

Charlie Kemp’s work in assistive robotics highlights a practical lesson for industrial automation: useful robots start with user needs, task design and safe human interaction.

Raise Robotics will use RoboBusiness to address how engineering capacity should be allocated when scaling field robots, a question with direct relevance for industrial automation suppliers.

A sensor-triggered fume extractor project highlights a wider industrial shift toward automatic air quality control in welding, cobot cells, and safer metal fabrication.

Universal Robots has introduced its Gen 7 cobot platform at IMTS, adding new robot arms, a redesigned controller and AI-ready interfaces that could affect welding cell design.

A Robot Report interview with Eric Sivertson highlights how FPGAs can add deterministic safety and security layers to robots, a relevant issue for welding cell integrators.

GritPlex’s enclosed desktop sandblasting system highlights a compact route to professional metal finishing, with implications for SMEs, prototyping shops, and welding cell support processes.

Sensor-equipped storage bins that count parts in real time are moving from workshop novelty to practical factory tool, with implications for stock control, uptime and welding cell support.