One of the latest trends in clinching technology is the ability to process newer types of materials used in lightweighting ...

Russia's Baltic Shipyard has demonstrated the use of a collaborative robot and a welding robot with machine vision, which it ...

Sheet metal fabrication equipment manufacturer Prima Power has announced its acquisition of longtime robotics partner Sistec ...

At this writing, most installations have involved gas metal arc welding (GMAW), but some new applications incorporate wire-fed robotic gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, or TIG). “There are trade-offs ...

UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into ...

That’s beginning to change, however. Robots are slowly becoming a key part of military and commercial aircraft assembly lines ...

The path planning of tube-sheet welding can be approximately equivalent to traveling salesman problem (TSP), which belongs to NP-hard problem. To solve this problem, the standard firefly algorithm is ...