Robots have been built with inspiration from kangaroos, turkeys, cheetahs, and octopi. Next up: elephants. Elephant trunks are both flexible and powerful. They have a level of agility beyond that of any current machine. Now European researchers are working to figure out how exactly elephants do what they do with their trunks, with the goal… Read more »
The flying cutoff? If you’re not familiar with machining, or you don’t know much about motion control systems, you might have some strange ideas about what flying cutoff means. You may think that a flying cutoff is a really fast sprinter in a pair of home made shorts, or maybe a super hero – possibly… Read more »
People sometimes get discouraged by the fact that Indramat products are legacy components. “Legacy” means that those products that are no longer made new. People assume that because Indramat parts are legacy products it will be difficult to find replacement units, and even more difficult to find support for those legacy components. But there’s good… Read more »
We wrote about Amazon’s Astro earlier this week. Gizmodo wrote about Astro, too, but it reminded them of the previous attempts at home robots. Their list of “adorable dead robots” included Kuri, a Bosch offering. Bosch is the parent company of Rexroth and, since Rexroth acquired Indramat, therefore the…well…maybe the stepparent company of Indramat as… Read more »
Amazon is rolling out its highly-anticipated home robot, named Astro, by invitation only. It;’s just under $1,000 for early adopters and will go up to just under $1,500 after the special price expires. This is the upper end of Roomba pricing. Astro incorporates Alexa, but Amazon insists that it is not “just Alexa with wheels.”… Read more »
We know that you want to resolve error codes as quickly as possible. Most Indramat error codes have several possible causes, however. You can quickly go down a rabbit hole chasing the wrong remedial action, which wastes time and money. Keep a spare Indramat cable on hand, and always check your cables first. Start by… Read more »
It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your Indramat drive manuals are? It really doesn’t matter what time it is. Unless you have a photographic memory, or you have incredible organization skills, there’s a good chance that you no longer possess your Indramat drive manual. Your Indramat drive is at least 20 years old, and… Read more »
Indramat servo repair isn’t something that you can do on your own. It’s not like building RC cars, or tinkering with electronics in your spare time. Those are great hobbies, but Indramat industrial motion control systems are too advanced, and too important, to fiddle with. Of course, sometimes you can resolve Indramat errors on your… Read more »
We always want the answer to our problems to be really clever. We want the solution to be ingenious, intelligent, or imaginative. Sometimes, the answer isn’t clever, though. More often than we’d probably like to admit, the solution to our problem is really straightforward and direct. There’s no mystery to solve, there’s no eureka moment,… Read more »
A new study found a strong correlation between automation and aging workforces around the world — up 35% of the difference in the nations’ commitment to automation is the result of having lots of aging workers age 56 or older. Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University conducted the research. The pair… Read more »