A Louisiana steel plant has entered a new phase of industrial automation: live, on-the-floor testing of humanoid robot welders. Unlike ...

Holtec International has deployed the first industrial robot developed under a programme it launched in 2019: a portable robotic welder, which is used to weld lids to multi-purpose canisters. Using a ...

Welding tends to be thought of as a very manual, blocking-and-tackling type of function common to many discrete manufacturing assembly operations. While many aspects of welding remain manual, the ...

Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC) has acquired a state-of-the-art robotic welder for the college's instructional programs in welding, mechanical engineering technologies and advanced ...

Russia's Baltic Shipyard has demonstrated the use of a collaborative robot and a welding robot with machine vision, which it says will be an important part of the plant's modernisation programme.

WireSense is the assistance system from Fronius which makes robotic welding more efficient. The wire electrode is turned into a sensor that checks the component position before each weld.

We’ve been aware of the shortage of skilled welders due to retirements for some time. In recent years the shortage has been exacerbated by furloughing or the early retirement of workers during the ...