New prospects for robotics and AI in 2024
Marc Segura, Head of the Robotics Division at ABB, outlines three main drivers for robot-assisted AI solutions in 2024, with an increased focus on the crucial role of AI.
read more...read more...International study on robot acceptance
Robots and their use in society are associated with different associations and expectations. The United Robotics Group conducted an international study with the help of market research expert Harris Interactive to find out how they are accepted.
read more...Flexxbotics and Zaptic win 'Sixth Sense' competition
Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence Division announces Flexxbotics and Zaptic as winners of the Sixth Sense Summit. Sixth Sense promotes startups that are developing cutting-edge innovations to solve key challenges in the manufacturing industry.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
Top 5 robot trends 2024
The number of industrial robots worldwide has reached a new record of around 3.9 million units. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) defines the most important trends that will shape robotics and automation in 2024.
read more...Microservice-based laser structuring
Digitalization is becoming increasingly important in photonic production, which uses light or lasers as a tool. This requires flexible, adaptive and lightweight infrastructures, for example in the laser structuring of large-area micro and nanostructures.
read more...Avatar control tested between ISS and Earth
For the DLR's 'Surface Avatar' experiment, Swedish ESA astronaut Marcus Wandt controlled various robotic systems on Earth from the ISS. The experiment is intended to show how time delays affect the remote control of robots.
read more...Electro-free soft robots from the 3D printer
Researchers at the University of Freiburg have developed 3D-printed pneumatic logic modules that enable logical switching of the air flow and thus imitate electrical control. They could be used to produce electro-free soft robots entirely using 3D printing.
read more...Human-robot collaboration / cobots
New ISO standard for the measurement of collision forces
In collaboration with numerous international partners, robotics experts at the Fraunhofer IFF have developed a new ISO standard that shows how contact forces and pressures on cobots will be measured in a standardized way in the future. The ISO standard has now been published.
read more...3D simulation for the use of AGVs
System integrator Fabmatics relies on 3D simulations with Visual Components and add-ons from Dualis IT Solutions to improve the simulation and evaluation of AGVs.
read more...Large mobile robot for flexible use
The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) at RWTH Aachen University has presented a large mobile robot as part of its research into line-free mobile assembly systems, or LMAS for short. This enables the flexible manipulation of heavy payloads.
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