Is a Cobot Right for You?

To expand an automation strategy or begin an automation journey, IMTS 2024 offers contract manufacturers, job shops, and OEMs the opportunity to explore innovative and ready-to-deploy solutions to address their workforce, quality, and efficiency issues.

Orders of manufacturing technology, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, reached $317.9 million in April 2024.

Flow-through suppressors. Chippity China. Training robots with AI. Industrial tech trends 2024: Hannover Messe. Robot roadmap recommendations.

Our shared history with robotics may hint at our continued future. Once thought of as products, and then perhaps free agents, and then even colleague cooperators, robots are becoming more integrated into our everyday lives.

With Formnext in Chicago, we and our partners can leverage AM in the United States to reach the next level of innovative manufacturing technologies. There’s huge potential among U.S. companies that still haven’t encountered or taken advantage of AM.

AMT and ARM’s Joint Technology Summit showcased innovations in robotics, AI, materials science, and vision systems, emphasizing technology advancements driving manufacturing efficiency, precision, and safety. We revisit the show’s highlights.

Episode 118: Ramia is back from her travels in Japan, and the tech friends pick her brain about the trip and her culinary experience. Stephen didn’t appreciate a clickbaity title from a NASA article. Elissa reports that NASA has a new Chief AI Officer.

Active intelligence is one part commitment and one part consistency. It may not get the attention of the other AI, but it is likely more important to your success for the foreseeable future.

Key questions to consider when it comes to deploying collaborative robots – better known as “cobots.”

American made. Automation, AI, the economy, and you. Actuators over AI. The real 3D struggle. Hungry like the Wolfram.