Category Industry News

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.

Banana Pi’s new BPI-AI2N module combines 15 TOPS edge AI compute with industrial I/O, highlighting new options for machine vision, quality control and traceability in welding cells.

Advances in adaptive grippers and sensing are making physical AI more usable in factories, with direct implications for robotic welding cells, cobot tending and fixture design.

A new industrial AI shift is moving from software and humanoids to task-specific machines, with direct implications for robotic welding cells, cobot deployment, and factory competitiveness.