A new family of PLC-controlled robots combines a SCARA robot with a PLC Server that allows direct programming of the robot from the Allen-Bradley family of PLCs, through a DF-1 serial connection. The ...

Universal Robots (UR), a supplier of collaborative robots (cobots), has now integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. UR said it is among the first cobot vendors to ...

The user interface in robotics is teach-pendent centric, and motion control uses programming methods such as ladder logic and FBD. Global PLC programming by programming language type 2015 ...

His company has introduced a robot gateway that simplifies the programming and control of multiple robots through a PLC.

Moving to PLC-based robotic controls brings additional advantages as well, including common programming controls, software interfaces, program backup and restore methods, and program documentation.

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Programming a robot to teach itself how to move Flexible, open-ended learning software works but finds the real world difficult.

Michelle Elizabeth Chuang figures her way through a maze of wires while working on her robot during the Expressive Robotics camp at UCI.

Recently I became interested in PLC programming. I'm not planning on working in this field on building a career, just want to play with a bit. I've some background in software development and ...