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 ...

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As the 245th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaches, it’s a good day to celebrate both the ideals of liberty as well as its symbols. Perhaps the most iconic of those symbols is the ...

Russia's Baltic Shipyard has demonstrated the use of a collaborative robot and a welding robot with machine vision, which it says will be an important part of the plant's modernisation programme.