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Prof. Dr. Peter Hofmann, who took over as Chief Technology and Development Officer in November 2019, is leaving Kuka. The Supervisory Board and the Chief Technology Officer have jointly decided to end their collaboration for personal reasons as of February 20, 2020.
read more...Mobile Industrial Robots and Universal Robots are investing 36 million dollars in the development and production of robots at the site of a new cobot center in the Danish city of Odense.
read more...According to the IGZA (Institute for the History and Future of Work), the German labor market will be 10 million people short in 2040 due to demographic change. To compensate for the consequences, 77% of decision-makers are relying on "colleagues" robots.
read more...New series: Three questions for ...
Under the title "Three questions for ...", computer-automation.de is publishing short interviews with the leading figures in the automation industry on a monthly basis this year.
read more...DFKI scientists want to combine deep learning methods with formal calculation methods to make them more reliable. To this end, they are teaching a robot to juggle - it is supposed to perform calculated movements and at the same time decide on the next arm movement.
read more...Dr. Lars Friedrich is a new member of the Executive Board of the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association. He succeeds Dr. Jürgen Hohnhaus, who stepped down from the board for statutory reasons.
read more...Industrial robots at Bloomingdale's
They decorate Christmas trees, play in an orchestra and serve customers coffee - in the New York department store Bloomingdale's, robots and cobots from ABB are mutating into hard-working Christmas helpers. But see for yourself!
read more...As Managing Director of Universal Robots (Germany) and Regional Sales Director for Western and Northern Europe, Helmut Schmid is now responsible for all of the company's activities in Northern Europe in addition to the DACH and Benelux countries: in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
read more...The human hand is still considered the benchmark when it comes to the flexibility of gripping tools. In service and assistance robotics in particular, humanoid manipulators that enable a wide range of gripping variants will be increasingly in demand in the future.
read more...The timber construction industry has so far only made limited use of automated production processes. A joint project between the University of Stuttgart and plant manufacturer BEC at this year's Federal Horticultural Show (Buga) demonstrates what robotics could achieve in this area.
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