A case can be made for zigzagging through a topic to illuminate different facets to achieve broad and dynamic knowledge of what an industry offers. That’s what Machine Design set out to achieve during our Automation & Robotics Takeover Week, which ran May 19-23, 2025.
Drawing from the expertise of a myriad of vendors and subject matter experts, our coverage—conveniently collected for our readers in this eBook—explored how both novel and proven technologies can be integrated, and how mechanical and analytical capabilities are not only enabling users but changing how people work and live.
Among its highlights:
• Anders Billesø Beck, VP of innovation and strategy at UR (Universal Robots), discusses five AI-powered robotic applications that use physical intelligence models to interact with their environment.
• Nohtal Partansky is an aerospace engineer who, in a somewhat unorthodox career move, transitioned into automating cannabis manufacturing. We spotlight his invention of a user-friendly robotic card sorting machine.
• We also take a look at how a humanoid race exposed the measure of mechanical precision, in addition to exploring optimal choices in actuator systems for robotics applications.
