Smoker Craft adopted a robotic tube-welding system about two years ago to automate its entire pontoon assembly process. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) A welder’s flame fuses a pontoon tube at Smoker Craft ...

Spurred on by the colossal shortage of welders in manufacturing and other sectors, robotic welding has gained enormous ground since it was introduced in 2017. Now, with AI growing in power, both the ...

Matt Hendey, CEO of THG Automation, has found a niche for easier-to-use welding cobots. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) Automated welding machines are nothing new. In fact, they’ve been around for decades.

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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.

Welding robots aren't just for big shops anymore. Traditionally, robotic welders have been used by large shops specializing in high-volume production. But competitive pressures, a lack of skilled ...

LAKE CRYSTAL — The robot remained focused on its assigned task throughout the ceremony Tuesday morning, swinging its welding arm from one target to the next, even as the human workforce at Truck ...

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 ...

Universal Robots has grown its welding application segment with more than 80% this year as partners develop new capabilities for the pioneering cobot welders. At FABTECH, Universal Robots’ booth will ...

Pre-Tec’s new line of robotic weld cells are easy enough to use that mechanical engineering manager Jeff Johnston said his 10-year-old was able to program a robot in two hours during Bring Your Child ...