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55 - How 3D Printing Aids Automation, and How Additive Will Reach Farther With Robots
10/10/2024
55 - How 3D Printing Aids Automation, and How Additive Will Reach Farther With Robots
Additive manufacturing and robots are parallel technologies, both digitally enabled tools for manufacturing that are advancing in adoption. But they also enable each other. 3D printing can provide the grippers, end effectors and other specialized tooling that robots require to serve production. And robots are driving AM forward as well. Collaborative robots or cobots are being used to tend 3D printer farms, sometimes mounted on autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) for a fully mobile, as well as automated, solution. And robots are opening opportunities for larger and more complex part production, by providing the motion for a growing number of large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) systems. In this episode of AM Radio, Gardner Business Media Robots & Autonomy editor Julia Hider joins Stephanie Hendrixson and Pete Zelinski to discuss how AM and robots interact, and specific examples of this interaction. Find photos, video, related links and the transcript for this episode . This episode is brought to you by The Cool Parts Show. . Mentioned in this episode: How produces 3D printed end effectors for injection molders (first photo) , home of the 3D printed LEGO gripper happening in Pittsburgh provided by EMI Corporation, as seen in the Universal Robots booth at NPE , tended by a cobot informed by email and their potential usefulness for handling 3D printed parts , enclosing four individual printers tended by one gantry system for tending polymer printers of potentially dissimilar 3D printers
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