Walk onto a major film set today and you'll find something unexpected: the same software running on the same workstations you'd see in an aerospace machining shop. The dragon skull from a fantasy ...

Integrated motion control allows all kinds of robots to tackle a range of tasks with precision, in contrast with conventional machinery.

Robotic arms and legs provide robots with reach and the ability to affect the robot’s position and its environment. This book examines the process of controlling and tracking robotic limbs. It ...

The newly developed flexible milling kinematics with hybrid drive on a linear axis machines a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) vertical tail plane on a 1:1 scale with high precision. Source | ...

Modern PLCs now have enough processing power to handle complex robot calculations that previously required separate proprietary controllers and programming ...

An independent, applied research institute, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Stade, Germany, is changing the physics of machining – or to be ...