Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi is working with FANUC to accelerate the marriage of artificial intelligence with ...

ABB Robotics is expanding OmniCore EyeMotion with AI Robot Trainer. The tools are designed to help customers train, deploy and update AI-based robot vision applications without building AI models from ...

Design World is thrilled to announce the 2025 LEAP Awards winners! LEAP stands for Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program and celebrates innovative engineering achievements in product and ...

In 1984, Lockheed ceased production of the L1011 TriStar airplane and exited the world of commercial aircraft for good. For Lockheed, its latest passenger jet had been heralded as a technological ...

Managing the six-axis platform in robotics requires special consideration when designing cabling systems. In the field of multi-axis robots, industrial integrators are faced with the unique challenge ...

The August 2026 issue of Design World examines Ford’s decision to bring back 350 veteran “gray beard” engineers to fix quality problems its automated systems couldn’t catch on their own — and what ...

The September 2026 issue of Design World leads with cabinet-free automation, where Bosch Rexroth’s Joaquin Ocampo explains how mounting power electronics directly on the motor — rather than in a ...

I've interviewed a lot of engineers at trade shows. Most are good. A few are great. Every so often, someone stops you cold. That happened at a booth at ...

In discrete automation, edge devices include actuators, sensors, and connectivity components including gateways and motor-mounted controllers with computational resources to eliminate data bandwidth ...

Have you ever had problems with fastener threads getting stuck? If so, and you attempted to remove the seized fastener by force, you likely ended up with little success to show for it other than a ...

The choice of using threaded fasteners, such as machine screws, or rivets depends on many factor and is complicated by the wide range of fasteners available. The advantages of machine screws and bolts ...

igus has announced a self-supporting twisterchain energy chain for cable management on compact industrial robots with rotation angles of more than 600°. The rotary module sits in a sag around the ...