Boston Dynamics robots spent a year and a half working their way up to three minutes of dancing to “Do You Love Me (Now that I Can Dance)?” The iconic song by The Countours told the story of a guy whose girl rejected him because he couldn’t dance. He went away and learned the Mashed… Read more »
We’ve worked with Rexroth servomotors and servo drives for decades and know just how much better Rexroth equipment is than your average motion control equipment — but we may never have shared with you that Rexroth is also in the movies. This weekend when you’re looking for a great movie to watch, try one of… Read more »
President Biden is calling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue new safety guidelines for workplaces to keep workers safe from COVID-19. “Healthcare workers and other essential workers, many of whom are people of color and immigrants, have put their lives on the line during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,” says the new… Read more »
Voltage can fluctuate in industrial settings and if you don’t ensure you’re getting what your equipment needs, it can take a toll on your productivity. Ensuring that your Indramat and Rexroth machinery is receiving the right amount of power and doing routine checks on the input voltage is important for maintaining your equipment. This is… Read more »
The Indramat DKR drive is specifically designed for high power, high stiffness applications such as printing, packaging, and textile operations. Essentially, the DKR drives were an outgrowth and an upgrade of the classic Indramat RAC drive. Bosch-Rexroth updated this family of drives and controllers, using HMV-R as the new name. Now these are in the… Read more »
Automation continues to increase in industrial settings, but a lot of the innovation in the industry is in personal care robots. These robots inspired “robots” in factory settings, and have made a difference in the level of acceptance of robots in the public in general. A new care robot showed up at the most recent… Read more »
A company that has been in business for 225 years deserves a pop anthem, right? “What a journey it’s been!” “Some people feel like singing and dancing. Others do not, and that’s okay,” says the video. But being in business for 225 years gives you perspective. Wars, revolutions, plagues, disasters…Rexroth has seen them all. And… Read more »
Bosch Rexroth has a clear position on repairs of their components by third party repair houses. In fact, they describe it as a “global policy”: Bosch Rexroth has a global policy that grants authority for repairs and installation of replacement parts solely to Rexroth personnel, and therefore does not sell components nor authorize third parties… Read more »
Apollo 11 was hurtling toward the moon, preparing for the first lunar landing in history. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were staring at the screen of their on-board computer, which showed an error code: 1202. Neither Armstrong nor Aldrin knew what the error code meant. Nor did the controllers in Houston. They searched frantically through… Read more »
Can you staff a hotel entirely with robots? The simple answer is “Yes.” In 2015, the Henn na Hotel in Nagasaki was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the first all-robot-staffed hotel in the world. “Please feel free to enjoy conversing with these warm and friendly robots as they efficiently go about… Read more »
