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Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC will operate under the new name EndFlex LLC, a Florida-based manufacturer of secondary and end-of-line automated packaging solutions.

The new addition, scheduled to open mid-2020, will be built alongside the current warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, and have the capacity to house more than 500,000 stocked products.

The ringing of the closing bell on October 17th at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was performed not by a human, but by a robot arm. The bell ringer, Universal Robots’ UR5e is a collaborative robot.

Brenton introduces the new and innovative RPX Series of configurable robotic palletizing cells, giving food and manufacturing companies the opportunity to quickly, easily and cost effectively advance from manual to automated palletizing. 

JLS Automation has named Markus Franke as Director of Parts and Service, and Steele Burchell as Project and Application Engineering Manager.

OnRobot has acquired Purple Robotics, which developed the world’s first vacuum gripper specifically for cobots. 

Kawasaki has come out with the RS007N and RS007L, two 6-axis vertically articulated robots with a maximum payload capacity of 7 kg and different reach.