Design to manufacturing – the future is collaboration
Machinery Magazine UK Podcast
Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Autodesk’s Jonathan Geffen about the global giant's design-manufacturing collaboration platform, Fusion 360.
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Cobots in action at Unipart Manufacturing
Machinery Magazine UK Podcast
Unipart Manufacturing - how Universal Robots' collaborative robots have been implemented across a number of processes, replacing previously manual tasks; how their flexibility has aided their reuse as work has changed, indeed, how that particular aspect was actually key in one application; how Universal Robots’ cobots are now being used in the training of apprentices at both degree and sub-degree level; and also how the cobot message is being taken to other parts of the Unipart organisation.
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SP Elements brings Universal Robots' cobots to Scotland, officially
Machinery Magazine UK Podcast
Dundee-based SP Elements, a division of SP Automation & Robotics, is Scotland’s sole distributor of Universal Robots’ cobots. SP Automation & Robotics has over 30 years’ experience in automation, but this new venture is aiming at a new market. Based around its core product of Universal Robots’ cobots, SP Elements will bring automation to a wider audience, as its managing director, Roy Henderson, explains in this edition.
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Sheffield, the UK's cobot research/activity hot-spot
Machinery Magazine UK Podcast
In this second episode of a four-part series sponsored by Universal Robots, Machinery’s editor, Andrew Allcock, talks to Dr James Law, the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Robotics, one of the largest robotics research institutes in the UK, and the lead for Collaborative Robotics. James also holds a joint appointment between the Department of Computer Science and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, or AMRC, at the University of Sheffield.
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Why should I consider using cobots?
Machinery Magazine UK Podcast
Machinery editor Andrew Allcock talks to Universal Robots' UK sales manager Mark Gray.
info_outlineMachinery editor Andrew Allcock talks to Universal Robots' UK sales manager Mark Gray.
They discuss the company’s history and technology; the UK industrial robot automation picture, with an emphasis on collaborative robots, so cobots, which are intended for work alongside and with people; what the barriers to cobot uptake have been and are; what UR is doing to address these barriers; we’ll example some relevant cobot success stories; and we’ll finish by considering the future outlook for cobot uptake in the UK.