The Final Frontier “If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.” This quote [...]

Onto New Days The days of having large robots drilled into the floor and covered around every side by cages appear to be slowly coming to an end. With many robots weighing in at thousands of pounds and moving at high rates of speed, safety on the work floor has always been a looming concern. [...]

Our Future is Robotics "The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.” This quote by Rodney Brooks puts into perspective what many people are afraid of when it comes to the future of robotics. Many are afraid that robotics and automation may start to consume jobs performed by human beings, or that the [...]

Single-Arm SCARA Robots Fill Industry Void Single-arm SCARA robots are making a big - surprisingly affordable - splash in the automation industry.  The robots are filling an interesting void: applications that do not require the functionality of a six-axis robot, but require speed that exceeds that of the collaborative segment.  Functioning  in 3 axes - and at very [...]