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1. We know motion New Scale Robotics is a division of New Scale Technologies, an innovative company making compact micro-mechatronic solutions for precision motion motion - anything from lenses in smart phones, to fiber optics in telescopes, to neural probes in brain...

The Q-Span Workstation Kit was featured in a recent post, “How to Succeed When the Pace of Electronics Manufacturing Continues to Accelerate” on the Universal Robots blog. Universal Robots says it’s no surprise that the electronics industry has enthusiastically...

New Scale Robotics CEO David Henderson recently joined Carl Vause, past CEO of Soft Robotics, and Jim Beretta on the Robot Industry Podcast. They explore, from their own experiences and industry examples, how companies can use innovation as a strategic differentiator...

In our keynote at the Universal Robots Cobot Expo on Machine Tending, we showed how collaborative robots can do QC inspection while performing machine tending functions. We demonstrated how this improves output and quality. Watch this recorded keynote presentation to...

New Scale Robotics was featured in the new Universal Robots white paper: Improving Quality with Cobots - Deploy Advanced Quality, Inspection and Metrology Applications, Today. The new Universal Robots (UR) White Paper explains why New Scale Robotics chose the UR cobot...

In our last post, we discussed how to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) for a Q-Span Workstation based on labor savings alone. Now we will discuss one of the biggest sources of error in those calculations. By calculating ROI based on labor savings alone, we...

How do you calculate the return on investment (ROI) of implementing a Q-Span Workstation, with a collaborative robot, to automate small-part measurements? While automation delivers value in many ways, it’s common to calculate ROI based on labor savings alone. When we...

"We are in the early innings of a technology-driven, decade-long investment cycle centered on data and digitalization that allows businesses to gain insights, improve business outcomes, and drive productivity…the transition to the ‘Data Era’ is accelerating during...

When making contact measurements for QC, the quality of your data depends on following good metrology practices. This is true whether you use manual calipers, a CMM, a robotic Q-Span System, or any other metrology tool. In our work with quality teams...