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Progressive Automations just got back from the ATX West show. This trade show and conference are located at the Anaheim convention center in the beautiful and always sunny Anaheim, California – home of Disneyland. The ATX West show is USA’s largest annual automation technology event which showcases motion control products, motors, and drives, sensors, and detectors, machine components. As a leading linear actuator manufacturing company, Progr...

Robotics are paving the way for automation; even wheelchairs are no longer missing the race towards making a better future for the disabled. These days, robots are no longer just a mass of hardware; instead, they have been designed to reflect and work on algorithms, making them smarter and better than just pieces of metal. Robotic assistance devices are springing up all over the world, promising to change the façade of the technological gamut....

Automated robotics might be the next best thing of the future; the moment you identify a process that is repetitive and predictable, chances are it can qualify for an automotive makeover using Robotic Process Automation. However, the process of identification and implementation is not as simple as it seems. For this very reason, it is very important to understand what robotics process automation is about and what it entails in the real world. ...

Getting your home decor right is crucial to any homeowner. It partly involves arranging all the elements in your home to make sure you achieve comfort. Ensure to maximize each square foot, creating enough space to move around. From the kitchen to the living room, ensure the space you create permits you to freely move from one room to another. One of the most reliable ways to make sure you create extra space is by using an actuator. An actuator...

Whether It’s Netflix or cable television, we all own a flat-screen TV at home to binge-watch all our favorite movies and TV series. Television has become a significant part of our homes either proudly displayed on a wall or perfectly set up on a TV cabinet. We are living in the age where many aspects of our day-to-day lives are moving towards automation - from automatic lights, garage doors, heating, cooling and much more. A lot can be control...

As robots become more and more popular in industrial, commercial and other sectors, there is a renewed interest in developing grippers that can assist in various tasks. This is more so in the case of collaborative robots that may be required to do more than one task and hence requires the dexterity and grip to hold different types of objects. Vacuum, magnetic, claw, rotary and parallel grippers have become quite common in the market due to the...