Moving to PLC-based robotic controls brings additional advantages as well, including common programming controls, software interfaces, program backup and restore methods, and program documentation.

Universal Robots (UR), a supplier of collaborative robots (cobots), has now integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. UR said it is among the first cobot vendors to ...

Optional communication interface lets users can program robots without manufacturer-specific language knowledge – safely, quickly, and efficiently. STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi ...

Festo introduces at SLAS 2022 the Modular Gantry Robot platform for laboratory-based automated liquid handling. Open sourced, customizable, and utilizing world-class components, this new solution ...

More and more end users are asking for robots, motion controllers, and PLC’s to be programmed in familiar PLC languages. These languages are easier for machine builder programmers to understand ...

AES explores robot vs. gantry for large-format additive manufacturing Additive Engineering Solutions, specialist at 3D printing very large parts and tools on gantry machines, now also uses a robot for ...