On September 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued an unpublished [1] notice, regarding a Section 232 investigation into the import and supply chains covering personal ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Section 232 investigations into medical equipment and robotics and industrial machinery. The Commerce Department—which has been conducting the ...

Massimiliano Moruzzi, CEO of Xaba, argues that industrial automation is highly inefficient because it relies on outdated controllers, rigid programming and exhaustive manual intervention. Programming ...

ABB Robotics has launched a new family of cobots (collaborative robots) that, it says, combine the flexibility of cobots with ...

Siemens is bringing its latest innovation in industrial robotics to the market: the Sinumerik Machine Tool Robot (MTR). This groundbreaking technology is a significant advance in the precision and ...

ABB Robotics said its new PoWa family of cobots addresses a long‑standing gap in the market between traditional cobots.

ABB Robotics has introduced a new family of collaborative robots designed to combine the flexibility of cobots with the speed ...

Fanuc is well positioned for long-term, secular growth in the factory automation and industrial robotics industry, as the world’s largest computer numerical control and industrial robotics ...

ATI INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION is releasing a new standard tool-changing option for smaller robots. The QC-29 robotic tool changer brings the powerful and rugged technology of ATI’s heavy-duty tool ...

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Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...