Many military robots rely on flexible, flat cables from Cicoil Corp., Valencia, Calif. The cables’ form factor makes them lightweight and compact, which saves space and power. The cables also carry ...

David Sandiland, robotics product & sales manager, igus, shares insights into the design and guiding principles behind selecting the best cable management systems for six access robots. As a ...

In essence, without robust flexible cables, collaborative robots (cobots) and smart factory equipment would suffer frequent downtimes and failures, as standard cables cannot survive the dynamic ...

Industrial robots are becoming more agile and flexible. As robots technology advances, the supply chain has to respond in kind. You can’t have a robot with greater capability only to be hamstrung by ...

EtherCAT’s deterministic, on-the-fly frame processing and flexible topologies make it a strong real-time Ethernet backbone for autonomous mobile robots.

Even with the ubiquity of wireless connectivity, cables still provide a steadfast thread connecting advanced manufacturing. The role of cables is critical. As technology becomes increasingly ...

Q: How are drag chain and torsion-rated cables designed and manufactured differently from each other? A: In many ways, with respect to the environment each cable will be installed in, they are very ...

There have been a number of 3D-printing robots rolled out lately that can squirt out a house, but Tecnalia in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has come up ...