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…for 11 important national markets including U.S., China, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and Italy. APAC region leads the global material handling cobots market in terms of sales volume as well as annual revenue, followed by Europe and North America. Strongest growth potential also exists in the vast APAC market in the future with China and Southeast Asian countries expected to be the main driving engines for the growth. The major challenges for material handling cobots market are safety concerns, technological difficulty of improving payload capacity & speed of cobots, and low penetration rates of industrial cobots. Highlighted with four tables…
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…build the 600,000+ sq. ft. distribution center in Espelkamp, Germany. The facility, which went live in September 2019, is a showcase for warehouse and distribution center automation. It features technologies including the following: Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) for non-value-added travel Automatic depalletizing, palletizing, and shrink-wrapping Pallet- and carton-handling, crane-based automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) Vertical lift modules (VLM) for small parts storage A shuttle system for buffer storage of order totes Pallet conveyor with transfer cars RFID for pallet tracking and quality control In addition, HARTING is using SAP’s Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) product as its control system. “We…
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…pallet-handling AMR at its booth at LogiMat in Stuttgart, Germany, and Automate in Detroit. Both events will be in June. Investors, users welcome autonomous truck loader “The new solution from Gideon brings us an exciting potential for optimization, creating new efficiencies, and new ways to work,” said Annant Patel, director at Koch Disruptive Technologies, an investment unit of Koch Industries, and a Gideon board member. “As new technologies become available, the supply chain challenges act as a catalyst to spur companies to innovate – Gideon being one of them,” he noted. “We may face uncertainties, but innovators like Gideon prove…
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…already available through Nano Dimension’s global sales channel. In Germany, the launch of the DragonFly LDM was already initiated by Nano Dimension’s reseller, Phytec New Dimension. Nano Dimension’s DragonFly LDM extends 3D printing for printed electronics beyond prototyping to true in-house, digital manufacturing, enabling one-off prototypes as well as low-volume manufacturing of printed electronics. The DragonFly LDM augments the capabilities of the DragonFly Pro system with new, proprietary, state-of-the-art technology that enables 24/7 3D printing. Improvements include the optimization of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and improved workflow and production processes of 3D printed electronics. The DragonFly LDM combines new advanced…
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…customers. They are in Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Vietnam. In addition, the company has offices in the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden, Malaysia, and China. About the author Malene Grouleff is CEO of Workspace and a robotics journalist, blogger, and consultant. This article is reposted with permission.
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…recorded movements are then transformed into a skill. Berlin, Germany-based Micropsi Industries said it provides artificial intelligence-based software for industrial and collaborative robots (cobots). MIRAI, its flagship product, allows these robotic arms to be controlled in real time, in direct response to sensor information. “MIRAI is a game changer,” said Jerry Perez, executive director of global accounts at FANUC America. “For the last 20 years, I’ve heard companies ask for this kind of dynamic path augmentation technology repeatedly, so seeing it work is really amazing.” “What’s even more amazing is how affordable it is to add this kind of automation-enabling…
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…of the Siemens Mobility ‘Easy Sparovation Part’ business in Germany, where this technology has provided us time-per-part savings of up to 95% compared to traditional manufacturing methods.” By storing all part data online, Siemens Mobility can access and replace older or newer train parts ad-hoc to meet stringent time limits. “The manufacture and delivery of an additional 13 new Velaro trains will see us work on multiple vehicles over a long period of time, and within very strict time constraints. As a result, 3D printing makes for a perfect add-on to aid our production and provides us with the flexibility…
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…AutoStore calls “partners.” The company’s headquarters is in Nedre Vats, Norway, with offices in Oslo, the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Japan, and Korea.
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…Dearborn, Mich.; Cranbury, N.J.; Palo Alto, Calif.; and Munich, Germany. Argo is also testing autonomous vehicles on public roads in Pittsburgh and Detroit. Argo and Ford said they have been operating in Miami and Washington, D.C., since 2018 and in Austin since 2019. They have been building autonomous ride-hailing and delivery services. The two companies have also established a real estate footprint and commercial fleet management capabilities, including fueling, servicing, and cleaning of self-driving vehicles. “Argo and Ford are aggressively preparing for large-scale autonomous vehicle operations across a broad footprint of U.S. cities,” said Scott Griffith, CEO of Ford Autonomous…
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…million in its Series E funding round. The Bruchsal, Germany-based said it plans to use the financing to certify its electric, autonomous air taxi and commercially launch it in the first cities worldwide. “This funding round is a testament to Volocopter’s leading position in what is a highly attractive emerging market,” stated Florian Reuter, CEO of Volocopter. “We continue to make significant technical and commercial progress as we work toward bringing urban air mobility to life at scale in cities worldwide.” Volocopter said it is developing a new and sustainable urban air mobility (UAM) ecosystem. Its aircraft include the VoloCity,…
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…the SCAPE system, and it has customers in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France, and China. Robotic vision provider scopes out growth Scape Technologies said it offers an integrated system including components and software modules that can connect directly with six-axis robot arms from leading vendors such as KUKA, ABB, Kawasaki, Universal Robots, and more. The company added that it is applying its expertise in 3D vision to increase its focus on artificial intelligence for automation. In May, it released the SCAPE Stationary Scanner P2 recognition as an alternative to its robot-mounted SCAPE Grid Scanner Recognition and SCAPE Stationary Scanner E1 Recognition.…
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…so far. For example, MBO Postpress Solutions GmbH in Germany has integrated the UR10e as part of its CoBo-Stack stacking cobot. “Increasing the payload of the UR10e will make our MBO CoBo-Stack much more profitable for our customers by expanding their application possibilities to include larger packages and heavier products, such as perfect-bound or saddle-stitched catalogs and brochures,” said Sebastian König, head of research and development at MBO Postpress Solutions. In addition, Universal Robots noted that the updated UR10e includes plug-and-play compatibility with products from its UR+ ecosystem of hardware and software peripherals, so users can quickly and easily get…