A Louisiana steel plant has entered a new phase of industrial automation: live, on-the-floor testing of humanoid robot welders. Unlike ...

Italian companies Comau and Fincantieri presented today the first result of their joint collaboration with Automatica: MR4Weld (Mobile Robot for Weld), a mobile robot, an innovative outdoor automation ...

The rise of collaborative robots (cobots) in industry has featured their use in a variety of applications where they work, uncaged, alongside humans. Most of the cobot implementations I have seen in ...

Lincoln Electric has developed a new way to teach welding techniques through a virtual welding system called VRTEX 360. The system incorporates technology Lincoln recently acquired from VRSim Inc., an ...

The question of how to control a robotic welding torch to trace the joint between two cylindrical pipes can be reduced to a problem in algebra. Maple can be utilised to derive the parametric equations ...

We’ve been aware of the shortage of skilled welders due to retirements for some time. In recent years the shortage has been exacerbated by furloughing or the early retirement of workers during the ...