Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #7 The emergence of robots

By Armin Gruenewald

Robots are getting cheaper and cheaper. Robots are not as accurate as a traditional machine tool but it has almost unlimited machining space. You can put a machine on a crane upside down, you can put a machine next to the robot, the robot can do machine tending, but it can also do more and more components in the routing. It can do more in the steps to the routing, such as finishing, grinding, polishing and deburring. Now we traditionally also support robot processes in the automotive and aerospace industries. But what we did in the next video is put a robot simulation inside the NX CAM system. We can basically use the power of NX CAM and all the different options we have to program a machine but use it on a robot.

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Video: Robotics machining with NX CAM