Combined with a teach pendant (a control box for programming the robot’s motions), completing routine maintenance and adjustment becomes pain-free. In fact, more than 90% of robots use these tools.

ABB plans to expand the Wizard Easy Programming to its other robots in the future. Rob Spiegel has covered automation and control for 19 years, 17 of them for Design News . Other topics he has covered ...

The FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics) competition challenges large teams of students to build and program robots of up to 125 pounds to compete ...

Taiwan's NUWA Robotics is looking to make things simpler with a cute little robot companion called the RobotCreator DX, plus an easy-to-use cloud-based programming platform. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

Check out more of our CES 2023 coverage. Educational Insights was showing off the Pyxel robot, a cute mechanized puppy with smart sensors and a programming environment for kids and budding ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong check outs Digilent's Robot Kits based on Microchip's MIP-based PIC32 microcontroller. The kits utilize Digilent's Cerebot 32MX4 (see Low-Cost Kits Make Evaluation ...

The next phase of collaborative robots eliminates the need for programming. Applications such as machine tending and palletizing can be deployed in a few simple steps. Robot programming has come a ...

“We’ve only really been working on the robot itself for the last couple of weeks,” says Kehoe, explaining the complexities of building and programming their robot for competition. Peter Gregson ...

With an eye on growing its product line beyond its existing outdoor surveying and layout robot, San Francisco-based startup Civ Robotics announced July 1 that it has secured $7.5 million in Series ...