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Multi-Axis Robot Machining With the Fusion 360 Plugin

November 7, 2019January 20, 2020 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

What does a project using the Fusion 360 plugin look like in practice? Here’s how one university fabrication lab Protolab used multiple external axes.

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Art / CAD / CAM / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining

What Links Hip-Hop and Robot Milling? Spotify’s RapCaviar!

October 17, 2019November 8, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

What links hip-hop music with robotic machining? The RapCaviar Pantheon project from Spotify and NeoSet Designs used RoboDK to make significant sculptures.

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Automated Inspection / Metrology / Press Releases / RoboDK projects / Universal Robots

How NASA Uses RoboDK For Multi-Robot Inspection

April 30, 2019April 3, 2025 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

When it comes to making aircraft, safety is paramount… and that means inspection. One team at NASA is using RoboDK to achieve multi-robot inspection to increase the safety of their …

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3D Printing / RoboDK API / RoboDK projects / Robot Manufacturing

Case Study: Improving the Additive Manufacturing Workflow

April 23, 2019November 15, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Improving your software workflow can shave vital minutes off your 3D printing process. Here’s how researchers improved the additive manufacturing workflow with RoboDK.

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3D Printing / ABB / Art / RoboDK projects

How to Supersize 3D Printed Art With a Robot

March 19, 2019April 15, 2021 - by Alex Owen-Hill - 2 Comments.

3D printing is great, but it can be restrictively small. What do you do when you want to go bigger? Here’s how one German artist supersized his designs.

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3D Printing / Construction / Fanuc / Rhino / RoboDK projects

Researchers Tackle the 5 Challenges of 3D Concrete Printing

March 12, 2019March 13, 2019 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Concrete is a challenging material to work with, particularly for robot 3D printing. A team at the Danish Technological Institute are tackling the challenge head-on.

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Art / Online Programming / RoboDK API / RoboDK projects / Robot Drilling / Robot Manufacturing

When Aerospace Technology Meets Art

February 7, 2019July 13, 2022 - by Albert Nubiola - 2 Comments.

It’s no secret that the aerospace industry needs to drill thousands of holes per aircraft. In the last few years, however, drilling with industrial robots has helped reduce manufacturing costs …

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Construction / offline programming / RoboDK API / RoboDK projects / Robot Welding

This Startup is Tackling the Construction Industry Skills Gap

January 30, 2019November 21, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Rebar manufacturing is suffering and the construction skills gap is causing the strain. But, startup Rebartek can cut 90% of labor time for this vital task.

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offline programming / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining

How Sunrob Robotics Makes Hockey Sticks With Robot Milling

December 19, 2018November 7, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

This case study shows an ingenious use of robot milling to produce ice hockey sticks. We never knew that they were so challenging to make!

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3D Printing / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining / Robot Manufacturing / robot programming

Is This the Only Manufacturing Cell You’ll Ever Need?

November 1, 2018February 25, 2020 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Imagine you only ever needed one manufacturing cell which could do everything. That’s what a team of researchers is doing with RoboDK.

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3D Printing / Art / RoboDK projects

Would You Eat Robot 3D Printed Food?

October 18, 2018November 12, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - 2 Comments.

Food printing could be the next thing in high-end restaurants. Here’s how one of our users achieved 3D printed food with a robot, and how you can do the same.

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Incremental Sheet Forming with Robots
Incremental Sheet Forming / offline programming / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining / Robot Manufacturing / robot programming

The 5 Steps to Achieve Quality Robotic Incremental Forming

July 3, 2018November 5, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - 1 Comment

Robotic incremental forming is cost-effective for small batch sheet forming. This case study shows how one team achieved quality with RoboDK.

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Blade Inspection with an ABB Robot
Automated Inspection / offline programming / RoboDK projects

Automated Turbine Blade Inspection

June 28, 2018December 2, 2024 - by Albert Nubiola - Leave a Comment

Turbine Blade Inspection is a challenging step of turbine blade manufacturing . Turbine blades are made of advanced metal alloy to resist extreme conditions.

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Automated Inspection at NASA
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Automated Inspection at NASA

September 22, 2017November 15, 2024 - by RoboDK - Leave a Comment

NASA’s goal is to quickly inspect every fuselage after manufacturing, preventing manufacturing defects to become critical. To accomplish this task, NASA built an automated inspection system for composite aircraft fuselages. …

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Automated Fiber Placement with a robot arm
RoboDK projects / Universal Robots

Automated Fiber Placement

August 7, 2017April 21, 2023 - by RoboDK - 1 Comment

We’re delighted to highlight the successful automation of fiber placement on a custom-made leg brace by Saxion University in the Netherlands. Saxion uses RoboDK for Simulation and Offline Programing a …

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3D printing concrete
3D Printing / Art / Rhino / RoboDK projects / Robot Manufacturing

Concrete 3D Printing

May 18, 2017September 21, 2024 - by RoboDK - 3 Comments.

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. Industrial robot arms are typically used in applications such as pick and …

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