David Sandiland, robotics product & sales manager, igus, shares insights into the design and guiding principles behind selecting the best cable management systems for six access robots. As a ...

Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) represent an innovative class of robotic systems that utilise flexible cables to actuate a moving platform. This design offers significant advantages over ...

Even with the ubiquity of wireless connectivity, cables still provide a steadfast thread connecting advanced manufacturing. The role of cables is critical. As technology becomes increasingly ...

Q: How are drag chain and torsion-rated cables designed and manufactured differently from each other? A: In many ways, with respect to the environment each cable will be installed in, they are very ...

KANAGAWA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKI Electric Cable (TOKYO:5815) today announced the launch of VEYOR-CABLE™ parallel robot cables, *1 which enable various high-flex robot cables to be combined and ...

Ever since he looked into them as a way to water and care for his plants, [Tom] has been fascinated with cable robots. These high-flying gadgets can move in three dimensions over huge areas, provided ...

EtherCAT’s deterministic, on-the-fly frame processing and flexible topologies make it a strong real-time Ethernet backbone for autonomous mobile robots. How EtherCAT’s “processing on the fly” and ...

Northwestern Engineering students studying to be mechanical, computer, and electrical engineers – both undergraduate and graduate students – have all come together to build robots that advance ...