Smoker Craft adopted a robotic tube-welding system about two years ago to automate its entire pontoon assembly process. (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) A welder’s flame fuses a pontoon tube at Smoker Craft ...

Experimental design work with laser welding of steel retaining rings carried out using a collaborative robot has begun at the Central Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering in St Petersburg. (Image: ...

In the UK, an estimated 744,000m3 of nuclear waste must be safely contained between now and 2140. This monumental decommission is demanding rapid production of containers, however the shortage of ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.—Could “collaborative robots” get Navy submarine projects back on cost and schedule? General Dynamics Electric Boat is seeing results using programmable devices that cut and weld ...

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