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New Comau S-Family of Small Industrial Robots, a photo appearing on Industrial Automation Monthly

Comau Debuts Small Element-Resistant Industrial Robot Series

May 21, 2024January 6, 2025 Components Source, LLC

The Turin, Italy headquartered Comau, 50-year industry experts in delivering advanced industrial automation products and systems, has announced the global market introduction of its new S-Family, a series of small, fast, and element-resistant “hollow wrist” 6-axis articulated industrial robots. The robots are expressly designed for applications where accuracy, repeatability, and speed are absolute requirements, such […]

Universal Robots Announced SCRI Integration, photo appearing on Industrial Automation Monthly

Universal Robots Debuts SCRI Software Integration

May 21, 2024December 8, 2024 Components Source, LLC

Universal Robots (UR), the Danish collaborative robot (cobot) company, has announced that it has integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. This makes UR one of the first industry cobot vendors to offer this functionality. The SRCI is a new standard for robotics manufacturers, designed to establish a unified interface between PLCs and […]

Purely decorative photo appearing in an article on Photonics Industry Monthly entitled ABB Robotics Announces New Global AI Startup Challenge

ABB Robotics Announces New Global AI Startup Challenge

May 14, 2024January 13, 2025 Components Source, LLC

ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation has announced its 2024 Robotics AI Startup Challenge, a new global competition to accelerate AI development in robotics while fostering international innovation and further collaboration with startups and scale-ups.

SwRI Debuts Workbench Toolkit for Offline Robotics R&D

May 6, 2024December 8, 2024 Components Source, LLC

SwRI (Southwest Research Institute has recently introduced the SwRI Workbench for Offline Robotics Development™ (SWORD™), a new toolkit designed to simplify robotics programming by integrating computer-aided design (CAD) into robotics motion planning, modeling, and execution. Making its debut at this year’s Automate 2024, SWORD features an intuitive graphical interface that makes the fundamental coding requirements […]

Photo of new five new half-bridge industrial-grade IGBT power modules, housed within a newly redesigned INT-A-PAK package, and designed for reduced conduction and switching losses, appearing in an article in Electronics Industry Monthly.

Vishay Intros Next-Gen High-Efficiency IGBT Power Modules

February 28, 2024January 6, 2025 Components Source, LLC

The Malvern, Pennsylvania-headquartered Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH), a global designer and manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components, has introduced five new half-bridge industrial-grade IGBT power modules housed within a newly redesigned INT-A-PAK package and designed for reduced conduction and switching losses. With a design builds upon the foundation of Vishay’s own proprietary Trench […]

ST New ToF Sensors support mobile robotics applications

New STMicroelectronics ToF Sensors Support Mobile Robotics

February 26, 2024December 8, 2024 Components Source, LLC

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), whose innovative products support customers across a broad spectrum of sensing applications, has introduced an all-in-one, direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) 3D LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) module with market-leading 2.3k resolution. Even before its first commercial availability, the product was revealed as an early design win for the world’s smallest 500k-pixel indirect Time-of-Flight […]