Back in 2010, Designfax posted a great headline: “Waterproof Servos are Here, Robot Fish Rejoice.” Eight years later, robot fish may or may not be rejoicing, but they are heading to Antarctica to do something human beings cannot. They’re doing research on the sheet of ice keeping frigid antarctic waters in place. Their goal… Read more »
We wish you a happy, productive New Year. Don’t forget to put our number in your phone so you can get fast service when you need Rexroth electric motion control in the New Year. (479) 422-0390. We look forward to serving you in 2018.
Can your IndraDrive Control work with third-party motors? The answer is yes, but be careful. Many factories use Rexroth modules from different time depths together. With careful configuration, there’s no reason to update all your machinery when you update one piece. Retrofitting legacy units with new sensors can breathe new life into older machinery. Reman… Read more »
Wired magazine reports that 2017 ushered in the Golden Age of Robotics, which should really take off in the coming year. They point to the food delivery robots and household robots, not one of which can reliably make you a cup of coffee yet. Self-driving vehicles are a reality, though, and robot coworkers are… Read more »
Happy Holidays! We hope you won’t have any emergencies, but if you do, we’re ready to help.
Experts in industrial automation agree: getting servo drives out of the cabinet is important. What’s wrong with cabinets? Servo drives are kept in cabinets for protection. Avoiding overheating and damage from dirt extends the life of your servo system and keeps your system from malfunctioning. The controlled environment of a cooled cabinet provides a high… Read more »
More accurately, Rexroth helped venerable tea company Yamamotoyama get out of hot water with their product packaging machinery. Yamamotoyama began as a company in 1690, giving it an even longer pedigree than Rexroth.One of their most important accomplishments was to make green tea available to everyone, not just to the wealthy. They still specialize in… Read more »
Rexroth motion control systems are very popular in packaging applications, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. Today we’re talking about the way Rexroth components are packaged when they’re sent to your facility. The picture above shows how it’s supposed to be done. When a component comes from the Rexroth facility to your facility,… Read more »
We get calls that start off, “I’ve got a problem with a machine. It says ‘Rexroth’ on it.” But it can be faster and easier to get the help you need if you have a little more information. Often the name plate of your component is easy to find and includes all the information you… Read more »
Elon Musk says we should quit worrying about robots taking our jobs and worry instead about robots taking our lives. This isn’t a robot overlords scenario. The fear is that robots are not very secure. This allows them to be used by hackers to do things with their arms or wheels. Yes, the limbs are… Read more »
