Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.95
ABB yesterday announced that its new GoFa collaborative robot has won the Red Dot “Best of the Best” design award in recognition of its approach to making robotics appealing and accessible to users. The global Red Dot Design Awards recognize achievements in product design, with the jury assessing thousands of entries every year. The Best of the Best award is for groundbreaking design and is the highest award in the competition, reserved for the most aesthetically appealing, functional, smart or innovative design. Zurich-based ABB Group is a leading automation, electrification, and software provider, with more than 105,000 employees in over…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.47
…but with no physical safety barrier between the two. ABB Robotics’ latest offering in that space is the small-parts-handling YuMi, says Rick Tallian, manager of picking, packing and palletizing products and applications.” Users with space constraints in their palletizing zones are eager to see the same type of barrier-free interaction on robotic palletizers that are much larger,” he says, adding that ABB is developing such a solution now. However, some suppliers may be over-promising on current collaborative robotic palletizer capabilities, he cautions. Before a facility considers purchasing such equipment, a few key points are important to keep in mind. First,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.12
…it has been selected as an authorized integrator of ABB Robotics’ new YuMi dual-arm collaborative robot. The company, which recently celebrated its 25th year anniversary as an automation integrator in the U.S. specializing in material handling automation solutions, will be one of a select few integrators that will help end users integrate the robot into their small parts assembly applications. “We are very excited to be teaming up with ABB and their amazing YuMi robot which is the first truly collaborative dual-armed robot designed for a world in which humans and robots work together,“ said Tom Doyle, president of QComp…