Universal Robots News

UNIVERSAL ROBOTS LAUNCHES ACTINAV, THE WORLD’S FIRST AUTONOMOUS BIN PICKING KIT FOR MACHINE TENDING APPLICATIONS

ActiNav from Universal Robots is a new UR+ application kit for companies of all sizes that simplifies the integration of autonomous bin picking of parts and accurate placement in machines using UR cobots. ActiNav synchronously handles vision processing, collision-free motion planning and autonomous real-time robot control, eliminating the complexity and risk usually associated with bin picking applications.

Stemmer imaging News

Formula Student: autonomous driving using 3D imaging

Universities from all over the world participate in the Formula Student Driverless, a challenging engineering competition to develop the best driverless racing car. The municHMotorsport team relies on machine vision from STEMMER IMAGING to identify and evaluate track markings.

Fraunhofer News

Fraunhofer engages in mass production of COVID-19 test systems along with EUROIMMUN

The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology and Cell Technology EMB in Lübeck, Germany, is supporting EUROIMMUN AG in its efforts to scale up the production of the new serological test systems for COVID-19 diagnos-tics to the levels required for large-scale, mass-market deployment.

Huber+Suhner News

HUBER+SUHNER LAUNCHES ITS SMALLEST OUTDOOR FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS

Leading global supplier of optical connectivity solutions, has launched its smallest ever outdoor fiber optic connector – the Q-ODC-2 Mini – to enable more cost-effective, flexible and higher capacity deployments of new wireless infrastructure in industrial and communication applications.

Maxon Motor News

A wide variety of high-performance drives for industrial application

Maxon, high precision drive specialist, launches high-torque product innovations this Spring. These include higher performance flat motors, drives with higher torque output, and new additions to the GPX gearbox family.

B&R News

When the robot sorts the garbage for you

At the Smart Green Island Makeathon, student teams had three days to turn an idea and countless hardware components into a functioning garbage sorting machine.

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