When it comes to robotics, the ties to artificial intelligence (AI) weren’t always so linked, but experts note that those connections have grown in recent years.
According to the latest International Federation of Robotics (IFR) World Robotics 2025 U.S. companies in the food and beverage (F&B) sector have been feasting on flexible industrial robots, driving the number of installations up by 21% in 2024.
Regal Rexnord Corp. joined forces with automation leader ABB Robotics to simplify integration of its GoFa cobots into 7th Axis Cobot Transfer Units (CTUs).
James Taylor, chief commercial officer at OnRobot, Novi, Mich., says that, while there is a lot of buzz surrounding AI, he suspects the value it could create is something the industry still is trying to figure out.
D:PLOY is an automatic development platform for cobots and industrial robots that enables the configuration of complete, Off-The-Shelf robotic systems for high-mix manufacturing applications.
Sidel presented CoboREEL, an automated reel loading solution for beverage packaging labels with three times the reel capacity of any other solution on the market, it says