Category Industry News

A discussion with YRG Robotics highlights how tighter PLC and robot integration can simplify automation architecture, improve maintainability, and influence future welding cell design.

FANUC’s collaboration with Google signals a new phase for physical AI in industrial robotics, with potential effects on adaptive automation, welding cells and cobot deployment.

Tighter e-waste rules and supply-chain pressure are creating a new use case for robotics: recovering reusable legacy chips before shredding, with implications for industrial automation.

FANUC has expanded integration with Nvidia Isaac Sim and Omniverse tools to improve robot simulation and digital twins, with implications for welding cell design, virtual commissioning and AI-enabled automation.

A custom RC biplane featured by Hackster.io shows how compact, precise design for confined spaces mirrors key trends in automated welding cells and cobot integration.

All3’s $25 million seed round highlights growing investor confidence in robotics and AI platforms that target productivity gains, with implications for welding automation and cell integration.

ShengShu’s Motubrain introduces a unified world action model for robots, a development that could reshape adaptive automation, including robotic and cobot welding cells.

PAL Robotics has introduced a seven-axis, ROS 2-compatible robotic arm platform aimed at advanced manipulation, with implications for industrial automation and welding cell integration.

Comau and Omron have formed a strategic collaboration to speed deployment of advanced industrial automation in high-growth sectors, with implications for flexible manufacturing and welding cell integration.

Cognex has introduced an integrated AI vision system for robotics, a development that could improve weld alignment, inspection, and quality control in automated welding cells.