Over the past few years, you’ve likely heard mobile manipulation is a trend to watch. Perhaps advances being made in a variety of enabling technologies – sensors, controls, power – are finally making mobile manipulation a reality. There have been at least three mobile manipulators introduced within the past month. Boston Dynamics certainly had the…

Productive Robotics said its new Productive Analytics cloud-based platform can provide history and real-time monitoring of OB7 cobot operations.

Calif.-based Productive Robotics added a fourth model to its OB7 lineup of cobot arms. The new OB7-Stretch is similar to the company’s standard OB7 cobot, but it has a longer reach of 1250 millimeters and a slightly lower payload of 4kg. Zac Bogart, President of Productive Robotics, said applications in plastics molding, packaging, and palletizing […]