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  • ROS-Industrial Robotic Blending Milestone 4 – Technology Demonstration at Wolf Robotics

    Awesome work done by Wolf Robotics, A Lincoln Electric Company and Matt Robinson – Program Manager of ROS-Industrial at Southwest Research Institute and his development team.  This type of collaborative effort shows what robots can do in manufacturing.  ROS-I will provide a non-proprietary platform to publish special applications and routines. http://rosindustrial.org/news/2017/9/7/robotic-blending-milestone-4-technology-demonstration-at-wolf-robotics

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  • Killer Robots: The Greatest Threat of our Time

    As a robotics industry professional, I love our fine metal friends.  They do the jobs humans don't want to, can't or shouldn't do themselves.  And they do those nasty and mindless jobs without complaining, taking sick days and holidays, filing for worker's compensation and going home after a semi-productive 8 hour day.  Robots do not

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  • ROBO: 2017 Global Robotics Industry Investor Report

    There have been several investor indexes created around the robotics market over the past 20 years.  I myself put together such an index in the 1990s which included Cognex, RVSI, Acuity, ABB, Fanuc, Adept and Yaskawa.  The problem with such indexes is the components were rarely a pure industrial robotics play (exception being Adept Technologies).

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