【标题】Robotic Rotational Molding Creates New Opportunities for Military and Aerospace Applications
【参考中译】机器人旋转成型为军事和航空航天应用创造了新的机遇
【类型】 期刊
【作者】 Chitra Sethi
【摘要】 Innovative robotic rotational molding technology allows for the use of new materials in manufacturing parts and hard cases for military and aerospace applications. This is creating opportunities for new product geometries, tighter tolerances, and less waste than traditional plastic molding. There are thousands of applications within the aerospace and defense industries using plastic parts and storage containers. Today, the production of specialized parts and protective hard cases for military applications can call for unique materials to meet more stringent standards (flammability, high heat/cold tolerances, airtightness, watertightness, electromagnetic interference shielding, multi-layering, to name a few). Meeting these strict requirements can be challenging when using traditional molding processes such as rotational molding, thermoforming, blow molding, or injection molding.
【参考中译】 创新的机器人旋转模塑技术允许在制造军事和航空航天应用的部件和硬壳时使用新材料。这为新的产品几何形状、更严格的公差和比传统塑料成型更少的浪费创造了机会。在航空航天和国防工业中，使用塑料部件和储存容器的应用程序数以千计。今天，军事应用的特殊部件和保护性硬壳的生产需要独特的材料来满足更严格的标准(易燃性、高耐热性/耐冷性、气密性、水密性、电磁干扰屏蔽、多层等)。在使用旋转成型、热成型、吹塑成型或注塑成型等传统成型工艺时，满足这些严格要求可能具有挑战性。
【来源】 Aerospace & Defense Technology 2023, vol.8, no.3
【入库时间】 2023/8/29
【标题】Crane robot to install solar panels
【参考中译】起重机机器人将安装太阳能电池板
【作者】 ALEX DAHM
【摘要】 Bailey Specialty Cranes and Aerials has launched its Solar Trax 824, a solar panel installation robot. Drawing from the US company's experience with custom-designed lifting equipment, Solar Trax is the result of a several year effort. The patent for the technology is still pending. The company has a history of developing assembly products such as aircraft assembly robots for Boeing, spacecraft clean-room machines for Northrop Grumman, and explosion-proof lifts used by the United States Air Force.
【参考中译】 Bailey专业起重机和天线公司推出了太阳能电池板安装机器人Solar Trax 824。Solar Trax借鉴了S公司定制设计起重设备的经验，是几年努力的结果。该技术的专利仍在申请中。该公司有为波音公司开发飞机组装机器人、为诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司开发航天器洁净室机器以及美国空军使用的防爆电梯等组装产品的历史。
【来源】 International Cranes and Specialized Transport 2023, vol.31, no.4
【标题】Robot integration steps ahead
【参考中译】机器人集成领先一步
【作者】 Mike Bacidore
【摘要】 Programming and controlling multiple brands and types of robots can be daunting. ROBOT APPLICATIONS AND implementations continue to become simpler, despite the explosion of growth. The robot-manufacturer market consists of more than 500 companies, which make conventional industrial robots and cobots; automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for transporting large and small loads in logistics or assembly lines; stationary medical and agricultural applications; and mobile cleaning, construction and underwater activities, according to Boston Consulting Group's "Robotics Outlook 2030: How Intelligence and Mobility Will Shape the Future," released in 2021. More than half a million robots were installed that same year, according to the International Federation of Robotics' (IFR) World Robotics Report 2022. The bulk of those came from a handful of companies, including ABB, Fanuc, Yaskawa, Kuka, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, Nachi, Denso, Epson, Staubli, Comau, Omron, Universal Robots and Foxconn.
【参考中译】 编程和控制多个品牌和类型的机器人可能会令人望而生畏。机器人的应用和实施继续变得更简单，尽管出现了爆炸性的增长。根据波士顿咨询集团于2021年发布的《2030年机器人展望：智能和移动性将如何塑造未来》，机器人制造商市场由500多家公司组成，这些公司生产传统工业机器人和Cobots，在物流或装配线上运输大小货物的自动引导车(AGV)，固定的医疗和农业应用，以及移动清洁、建筑和水下活动。根据国际机器人联合会(IFR)2022年世界机器人报告，同年安装了50多万个机器人。其中大部分来自少数几家公司，包括ABB、发那科、安川、库卡、三菱、川崎、Nachi、电装、爱普生、Staubli、Comau、欧姆龙、环球机器人和富士康。
【来源】 Control Design 2023, vol.27, no.4