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The March 2021 issue includes the following articles:

ABB develops next-gen GoFa, SWIFTI cobots

ABB’s GoFa and SWIFTI lines offer higher payloads and speeds to complement its YuMi cobots.

Tactile sensing for feedback control, object classification

Enabling object classification and real-time feedback control based on tactile sensing enhances manipulation capabilities and will be especially important for cobots being designed to operate with more human-like capabilities.

Q&A: Greg Smith, President, Teradyne Industrial Automation Group

Inside Teradyne’s acquisition strategy and the future of collaborative robotics.

How ActiNav automated a challenging bin-picking task

Facing challenges due to labor shortages, Allied Moulded turned to Universal Robots’ ActiNav to automate an important bin-picking application.