

Four international robotics and automation associations have signed the Barcelona Declaration on Robotics and Automation 2026.

Edmund Optics is expanding its lighting portfolio for industrial machine vision to include configurable Lumimax ring lights, which are available worldwide from stock.

Developers in the fields of optics and electrical engineering can use it to model photonic components, circuits, and complete transmission links in a unified environment.

Lasers of various power classes are available in separate laboratory rooms, supplemented by Ophir measurement equipment as well as optical benches, optomechanical components, and motion systems from Newport.

In the EU-27, the robot density is 231, which is above the global average of 132.