Arburg, a German manufacturer of plastic processing machines, will demonstrate Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF) for the automated production of plastic parts for medical applications at Interplas 2017 to be held in Birmingham, UK, from ...
Tags: Medical Manufacturing, Freeformer
The Carton Council of North America has announced the success of a program that is using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic systems to collect cartons more efficiently at the Alpine Waste & Recycling's material recovery facility in ...
Tags: AI-Driven Robot, Beverage Cartons
Bedfordshire-based Mechelec Automation has developed a new trolley collation and packing system for the dairy industry. The TP1002 Trolley Packer is designed to provide fully automated, cost-effective trolley loading, at faster operating ...
Tags: Mechelec, Trolley Packer, Dairy Industry
The Whipple procedure, used to remove tumors from pancreatic cancer patients, is one of surgery's most extensive and challenging operations. Now, surgeons are using a minimally invasive robotic surgical system to perform the surgery. ...
Tags: Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical System, Whipple Procedure
At CES last week, we ventured deep inside Suitable Technologies booth to a secret room to meet their latest telepresence robot platform. It's called the Beam+, and while it does just about everything that the original Beam can do, this new ...
Tags: CES, Suitable Technologies, telepresence robot platform, Beam+, home user
A new technology for artificial muscles could be a boon to medical device manufacturers, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Advanced Materials. The paper, dubbed Powerful, Multifunctional Torsional Micro Muscles ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Artificial Muscles
Think human relations can be tricky? Try human and robot relations. But that has not stopped European researchers from starting an initiative to take such collaboration even further in manufacturing settings—upping the automation ...
Tags: industrial, automation, level
Shifting Paradigms: Automation Comes to Wheel Balancing With ABB robots and a new material from 3M, Esys Automation is revolutionizing the important-but-often-ignored world of wheel balancing. In tire and wheel assembly there aren't a ...
The effective design of pallet equipment allows its usage in diverse industrial functions, where it adapts to production needs. Several variants of pallet equipment are critical to efficient warehousing management, such as slat chain ...
MeadWestvaco Corp., a global provider of packaging and packaging solutions, today announced that its Avive multiple-medication patient adherence solution received the Compliance Package of the Year award from the Healthcare Compliance ...
Mazor Robotics has obtained regulatory approval for its surgical robotic system, designed for use in spine procedures, in Taiwan. The system, Renaissance, uses less radiation while performing complex spinal deformity cases as well as ...
Health Canada has granted medical device license to Mazor Robotics to use its Renaissance surgical robotic system and accompanying accessories in both spine and brain applications. The license, which is subject to specifications outlined ...
Tags: surgical guidance system, medical device, minimally invasive surgeries
Adept Technology has launched a new vision-based robotic parts feeding solution Adept FlexiBowl, which is available as an option on all company's robot systems. According to the US-based company, the new feeder uses circular band tracking ...
The Topline bagging system takes an empty bag from a preassembled bundle, fills it to its specified weight and ends the process with densification and sealing of each bag. There's tired and there's down for the count. Eugene, Oregon-based ...
Tags: Topline bagging system, grain processor, packaging production
Texas-based Foundation Surgical Hospital (FSH), an associated facility of Foundation Surgical Hospital Affiliates (FSHA), has purchased Mazor Robotics' Renaissance system, a surgical guidance system which is designed for use in spine ...
Tags: FSH, Foundation Surgical Hospital, FSHA, Mazor Robotics