June 2026

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Electronic Camming: Enabling Superior Flexibility in Advanced Motion Control Systems

In manufacturing, motion control has always been about precision and repeatability. For decades, motion control synchronization was achieved through mechanical means — cams, linkages, and carefully machined components that translated rotary motion into highly specific movement profiles.

In many cases, these standards continue to work well. But as product variability increases, changeovers become more frequent, and uptime expectations climb, mechanical camming is starting to show its limits.

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AGE OF AUTOMATION FILM SPOTLIGHT

The Mining Tech With People at the Centre

Under a vast sky coloured with smoky blue morning light, giant trucks haul their load along roads that wind their way out of the Earth. Charlotta Oscarsson, a pit patroller at Boliden, surveys their progress from her 4x4.

The winter weather is turning, and snow now falls in this remote part of northern Sweden, but the trucks continue undeterred.

This is possible as the trucks, that scale the mines’ vast structure, do not have a driver behind the wheel and are able to drive fully autonomously. “Right now, we are in a dark period which can be challenging,” Oscarsson says. “But we’ve noticed that the trucks are not affected by things like fog unlike in staffed mines where truck drivers are not able to continue when the fog is too thick.”

Produced for Komatsu as part of the Age of Automation series.

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Aya Durbin on What It Will

Actually Take to Deploy Atlas

Humanoid robots are everywhere in the headlines. But Aya Durbin says the real test is not whether a robot can impress people in a demo. It is whether that robot can deliver real value, positive ROI, and reliable performance inside industrial environments.

In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Aya Durbin, Director of Product for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, about what it will actually take to bring humanoid robots out of the lab and into the workforce.