Global demand for robots is forecast to increase nearly 11% per year through 2016 to $20.2 billion, outpacing both the world’s economy and overall manufacturing activity. The United States is projected to grow at more than 15% per ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, robots
An aggressive round of product introductions and innovations at this High Point Market has kept motion furniture showrooms busy as buyers seek ways to keep the category's sales humming. Many showrooms have been seeing buyers since the ...
Tags: furniture showrooms, furniture, Furnishing
Leather upholstery resource Kuka Home is adding 10,000 square feet to its High Point Market showroom to make room for a major rollout of motion furniture. The expansion will boost its showroom, space 615 of Furniture Plaza, to 34,000 ...
Tags: entertainment furniture, furniture
As KUKA AG celebrates its 115th anniversary, KUKA Systems North America LLC of Sterling Heights, Mich, and the Grenzebach Group, headquartered in Hamlar, Germany, have announced that KUKA Systems and Grenzebach will bundle and reinforce ...
Monday’s opening keynote, “The Impact of Robotics on Economic Growth,” drew a 50/50 split of attendees for both ProMat and Automate, according to a show of hands requested by presenter Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of ...
Tags: Robotics, automation, robot maintenance
This year, ProMat features three keynote presentations, each offering critical insights from experts into future developments in robotics, business and the supply chain. The first runs Monday morning from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. in the ...
Tags: robotics, business, supply chain
Images courtesy of MIT Around the campus of MIT,something new is popping up around the Killian Court.What looks like something straight out of Tron is actually an interactive solar charging lounge chair,called the SOFT Rocker.The ...
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UK-based ESAB has announced its partnership with KUKA Robotics to create products and services for robotic arc welding customers. ESAB Automation VP George Learmonth said its relationship with KUKA will enable it to create products and ...
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KUKA Robotics is set to introduce the shelf-mounted robot generation KR QUANTEC K in North America with the launch of the new QUANTEC KR 120 R3900 Ultra. According to the company, with a reach of 2900mm and payload capacity of 120kg the ...
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Over 1,000 machine-tool manufacturers from all over the world have signed up for a total of 8,700 booths with organizers of the Taipei International Machine Tool Show 2013(TIMOS 2013),but only 960 exhibitors with 5,300 booths are allowed. ...
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German robot manufacturer Kuka AG is looking to Asia for its future. The 1.5 billion euro ($1.9 billion) company laid the foundation for a new assembly plant in Shanghai earlier this month with plans to start production in late 2013. The ...
When the materials handling and logistics industry's premier event,ProMat 2013,opens on January 21 it will include more than 800 exhibits and an comprehensive educational conference that will focus on solutions that increase the efficiency ...
PMMI,owner and producer of the Pack Expo trade shows,recently announced that Pack Expo International 2012(October 28-31;McCormick Place,Chicago),has sold out of exhibit space.The show will be the largest edition of the show since 2002,with ...
(Reuters) - Chinese companies are eyeing German machine tool group MAG, two sources close to the transaction said on Monday, in a sign appetite remains high among Chinese groups for the acquisition of German industrial know-how. State-owned ...
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Production efficiency was the focus of this year’s Technology Days event, organized in March by injection molding machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG in Lossburg. Arburg defines production efficiency as an overarching “meta ...
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