The Kuka Group closed the 2015 financial year with record figures. Due to the strong global demand for robots and automation solutions, both order intake and sales as well as earnings increased by a significant double-digit percentage.
read more...The Chinese Huawei Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kuka at Cebit. The aim: to develop 'smart manufacturing solutions' for industrial markets in Europe and China.
read more..."Human meets Robotics" - this was the motto of Schunk's 9th 'Expert Days on Service Robotics'. It became clear that international standards are needed for robot-supported assistance systems to become a matter of course in everyday industrial life.
read more...In a demo video, scientists from Google subsidiary Boston Dynamics show the results of their current work on the humanoid robot 'Atlas'. Even deliberate disruptive maneuvers do not throw the biped off its stride.
read more...Universal Robots, the Danish manufacturer of collaborative robots, achieved a turnover of 56 million euros last year - a growth of 91% compared to the previous year. Profits increased even more.
read more...At the beginning of December 2015, the Japanese automation trade fair SCF and the robot trade fair iREX took place together for the first time in Tokyo. What can already be seen there in terms of Industry 4.0? Computer&AUTOMATION interviewed two industry experts to find out.
read more...The kick-off event for the 'Aquias' research project took place at the Fraunhofer IAO on February 2 and 3. Its aim is to enable broad groups of employees to participate in attractive work in human-robot collaboration.
read more...Human-robot collaboration (HRC) alone is not enough to make production more flexible. There is also a need for mobile platforms on which robots can move independently through factory halls and transport goods or workpieces.
read more...The Agumos Q40 from Melkus Mechatronic is an automated guided vehicle system developed for the automated transportation of small parts, which are often transported in stackable 60 x 40 cm boxes.
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