Robot support for bricklayers in space
A remedy for bad moods: the robot Cimon is to keep German astronaut Matthias Maurer company on the International Space Station ISS.
read more...read more...Autonomous agricultural robots for agriculture
How can farmers reconcile economic yields and ecological farming methods? Autonomous agricultural robots are seen as a promising solution here - for example from the Dutch company Pixelfarming Robotics.
read more...Loading and unloading machine tools
Hirata has developed a new robot cell for the automated loading and unloading of machine tools to increase productivity and reduce the workload of production staff.
read more...Exoskeleton with active walking support
The robotics company German Bionic has launched the fifth generation of the Cray X Smart Power Suit on the market. The latest power suit is now outdoor-capable, among other things.
read more...The autonomous forklift truck
Mobile Industrial Robots and Logitrans have entered into a strategic cooperation to develop autonomous forklifts. These are designed to enable the safe and automated picking up of pallets or other goods directly from the ground and their autonomous transportation.
read more...Midea delists Kuka from the stock exchange
Five years after the takeover of the Augsburg-based robot manufacturer Kuka, the Chinese investor Midea wants to delist the German company from the stock exchange. A so-called squeeze-out process has been initiated, Kuka announced on Tuesday.
read more...New management from January 2022
The management structure at drive supplier Dr. Fritz Faulhaber will change in January 2022. The previous managing directors will hand over responsibility to a five-member management team led by Karl Faulhaber due to their age.
read more...AI for autonomous mobile robots
ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Sevensense. The start-up will expand ABB's new portfolio of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) with artificial intelligence and 3D mapping technology.
read more...Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Research project on learning assistance robots
The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding the research network 'Responsable and Scalable Learning for Robots Assisting Humans' (ReScaLe) at the University of Freiburg as part of its 'Scientific Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence' program.
read more...General Electric plans to split into three companies
Will industrial groups get so big at some point that they get in their own way? Siemens and Philips are constantly selling off parts of their companies or taking them public. Now the US competitor GE is breaking itself up. The goal: more growth.
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