Automation Trends At IMTS 2018: Cobots, Cameras, Careers, Mobile Robots, IIoT, AI And More
MCLEAN, VA — The International Manufacturing Technology Show will bring people and automation closer together — literally — with exhibits highlighting the benefits of collaborative robots, or “cobots."
“Automation suppliers have made tremendous leaps with software, control and sensor technology that enable quantifying what the robot ‘feels.’ If it feels anything out of the ordinary, it will stop before exerting too much force,” says Mike Cicco, president and CEO, FANUC America Corporation and a Board Member of the Association For Manufacturing Technology, which owns and produces IMTS. “Where robots previously operated in restricted areas, we can now bring people and automation together to improve assembly operations.”