Industrial robots have become a regular sight in machining shops over the last few years. They handle jobs that used to take a lot of manual work, like loading parts into machines or finishing surfaces. The change didn’t happen overnight. Shops started adding robots for simple tasks, then kept expanding as the arms got better…

Industrial robots started showing up in factories quite a while back, mostly doing simple jobs like moving parts from one spot to another or holding a welding torch steady. At first, they stayed away from the real cutting or shaping work because the machines back then weren’t accurate enough for close-tolerance machining. Things changed as…