Quick Tips: Setting A Laser Safety Area Scanner with the ZA6 Robot

A laser safety area scanner is a device you can use with Tormach’s ZA6 industrial robot to help ensure a safe workspace. For this quick tip video we are using the Keyence safety scanner, which creates a protective plane that detects objects that intersect its path. As objects come closer to this plane, the scanner signals the ZA6 industrial robot by activating either a warning or a safety input.

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Quick Tips: Setting up A ZA6 Industrial Robot with an 1100MX CNC Mill

Do you want to learn more about integrating the ZA6 industrial robot with your 1100MX CNC mill? This ZA6 robot quick tip video, hosted by Tormach CEO Daniel Rogge, will walk you through the physical setup and networking process to ensure seamless communication and efficient operations between these two powerful tools.

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Tormach ZA6 - Not Your Typical Machine Tending Robot

The new Tormach ZA6 robot can be used for a number of different applications, so when it entered the beta phase, we weren’t exactly sure what our testers were going to do with it.

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Tormach Owners Help Robotics Teams Win

At Tormach, our mission is to not only empower people to make things, but to also embolden them to make a difference.   It is invigorating to see how our customers cultivate creativity, foster ingenuity and encourage the development of their own industry and businesses, as well as the lives of future innovators.  Recently, a Tormach machine owner led me to a pristine winter landscape of stretching farmlands and an exceptionally resourceful robotics team in central Minnesota. 

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So Many Robots, So Little Time

April is an exciting time for robotics around the office at Tormach. We're helping the kids competing at FIRST Robotics in Milwaukee and LaCrosse, Wisconsin, as well as the championship event in Detroit.

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Robot Builder and Former MythBuster Takes to CNC

His credentials include MythBusters, BattleBots, and working as a Disney Imagineer -- it goes without saying that Grant Imahara knows what he's doing when it comes to making stuff.

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