Follow along as Kuka’s Ed Volcic dissects the various components of a typical machine tool tending cell.

In a typical machine tending workcell, a robot collects a cast part, such as an engine block, from a conveyor and grinds off the excess material and scrap (e.g. the flashing where the two halves of ...

The market for machine tending robots in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expanding significantly due to the region's ongoing transition to smart manufacturing, fast industrialisation, and labour shortages.

Ravjeet Singh, Expand Machinery's general manager, suggested automating the process of loading and unloading machines using the LoadMate Plus system from Mitsubishi Electric Automation. LoadMate Plus ...

FANUC America, the leading supplier of CNCs, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs has introduced the new LR-10iA/10 robot designed for machine tending and a variety of picking applications found in the ...

No robot programming experience or teach pendant is required, allowing manufacturers to use existing staff to automate and adjust. “Most automation solutions for machine tending rely on either cobots ...

Most often, shops install machine tending robots for turning applications, and common robot payloads for those installations range from 5 kg to 10 kg. However robot OEMs offer robots for handling ...

“Machine tending has always been one of the mainstay applications for our collaborative robot arms,” says VP of Product and Applications Management at Universal Robots, Jim Lawton.

Danish company 'Universal Robots' has begun deploying and selling Collaborative Robots, also known as COBOTs, focusing on flexible automation for manufacturers of all sizes.

The LoadMate Plus product line automates the process of machine tending (loading and unloading parts or materials into a machine tool center), most commonly used with vertical machining center mills ...

OnRobot's new D:PLOY platform reduces robotic deployment time with up to 80%, enabling systems integrators and manufacturers to take on more projects.

Machine tending has always been one of the mainstay applications for UR’s collaborative robot arms. However, the complexity of automated bin picking has remained a well-known challenge.