The latest force torque sensors provide the levels of sensitivity and reliability needed for industrial cobot applications.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is helping to improve absolute accuracy for robots.

Modern automotive factories are marvels of automation, with large industrial robots moving heavy parts into position and welding body shells together. Delicate operations with small, non-rigid parts ...

A yellow robotic arm weighing 50 kg lifts a heavy tailgate (vehicle trunk door) and makes minute angular adjustments near the vehicle body. Precise adjustments of 0.1 mm are repeated dozens of times.