Will Opportunity Rover ever phone-home again?
Opportunity Rover is Nasa’s longest-lived robot on Mars, but there are worries that it may not survive much longer. The golf-cart-size robot landed on Mars in
6 September 2018
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Cobot of The Month- Sawyer
Sawyer is a smart collaborative robot from Rethink Robotics, that is easy to program and has advanced features such as integrated vision and force feedback. Sawyer has
6 September 2018
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Collaborative Robots for the food industry to help you make your food production business more profitable
Collaborative Robots for the food industry will improve productivity and Profits. The food production industry has many pressures on productivity and profit. Health, Safety and hygiene takes more
13 April 2018
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5 reasons Collaborative Robots for the Pharmaceutical Industry are taking off
Collaborative Robots for the Pharmaceutical Industry are taking off, here’s 5 reasons why. The UK has a large and important pharmaceutical industry but it’s work has
23 March 2018
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Active8 Robots Boss comments on automation investment during Brexit
Antony Lovedale, Managing Director at Active8 Robots has been in the press this week, he asserts than now is a vital time for investing in Automation.
14 March 2018
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This is Becoming Imperative For Even The Smallest Production Or Packaging Business
5 Reasons Small Business Needs This Technology Think your business is too small for robots? Far from it, in fact, its now becoming urgent that businesses
1 March 2018
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Rethink Robotics to release a powerful new version of the Sawyer SDK
Rethink Robotics to release a powerful new version of the Sawyer SDK Gazebo Simulator – Allows you to simulate controlling Sawyer in a virtual environment before
19 February 2018
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Rethink Robotics announce new Sawyer software update
Rethink Robotics, the creators of the Sawyer collaborative robot, have announced a new software update designed for researchers and students to build and test programs on
8 February 2018
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How much can I automate without losing the human touch?
There are many industries that are put off by the idea of automation because they want to retain the human touch, in our experience, many companies
5 February 2018
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Why should robots be used in schools?
With robots slowly infiltrating our daily lives, surely there should be more of them in schools helping children get used to working alongside automation and gaining
29 January 2018
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Differences between a robot and a cobot
When you’re in the business of collaborative robots, or cobots, you often get asked the question – well what is the difference between cobots and robots?
19 January 2018
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Just got the hang of Industry 4.0? Well, look out for Industry 5.0!
Just as we all started embracing Industry 4.0 now the new buzz word is Industry 5.0, which focuses on the interaction between humans and machines, something
16 January 2018
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Is every industry easy to automate?
After spotting a picture of Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer robot wearing a hairnet as it got stuck into production at a factory in France, we started thinking
12 January 2018
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Wage changes leading to more automation?
A new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies suggests that raising the minimum wage will make workers unaffordable and push more businesses to automation. In
4 January 2018
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Industry 4.0 is here, are you ready?
The UK is suffering from a skills shortage, particularly in manufacturing, something that is likely to get worse over the coming years but something that can
3 January 2018
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The truth about collaborative robots
The truth about smart collaborative robots? We all know robots have been around for a long time used in a variety of industrial processes, such as
2 March 2017
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Rethink Robotics Intera 5 Press Release
Rethink Robotics Releases Intera 5: A New Approach to Automation Extensible software is redefining automation deployments and providing a gateway to the factory of the future
8 February 2017
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Sawyer Case Study June 2016
Matthew Daly talks about Assa Abloy’s experience of the Sawyer Collaborative Robot from Rethink robotics: “The team from Active8 very accurately interpreted our vision and turned it into a
17 July 2016
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