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How robotics can help improve packaging lines

December 11, 2015

Tree Top, an agricultural cooperative with eight processing facilities, installed robotics to its packaging line.

Japan to develop fully automated lettuce factory

Jeremy Gerrard

August 7, 2015

In Japan, SPREAD Co. has begun construction on what will be the world’s first fully automated, large-scale

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Collaborative dual-arm robot

June 19, 2015

The ABB YuMi collaborative dual-arm industrial robot features flexible hands, a universal parts feeding system, lead-through programming and state-of-the-art motion control.

ABB to manufacture robots in US

Jeremy Gerrard

May 26, 2015

Power and automation technology corporation ABB says it will start producing robots in the US, a move the company says makes it the first global industrial robotics company to fully commit and invest in a North American robotics manufacturing footprint.

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Random case erector

April 15, 2015

Engineered for end-of-line packaging operations, the Combi RCE robotic random case erector combines a 6-axis robot with multiple case magazines and a bottom flap folder with integrated tape head.

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University creates US database of food safety inspections

University of Maryland researchers used automated data capturing to create the database.

Jeremy Gerrard

April 13, 2015

Automated robots collect data from local government websites.

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Robotic advancements to surge in manufacturing productivity

The new wave of industrial robots is near a point of takeoff that could boost productivity for many food and beverage manufacturers.

Jeremy Gerrard

February 25, 2015

By 2025, labor costs are projected to be 18 to 33 percent lower in countries such as the US and China.

Engineering R&D

Get a grip: The light touch

Wayne Labs

February 5, 2015

Technically inclined people in the baby boom generation no doubt remember the crystal (more properly known as piezoelectric) phonograph cartridge or microphone.

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