The smart Robot Factory
Connecting a production cell to the cloud during ongoing production and providing it with all the features of a smart factory: Kuka has now realized this goal with partners from the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance.
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Connecting a production cell to the cloud during ongoing production and providing it with all the features of a smart factory: Kuka has now realized this goal with partners from the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance.
Cooperation between Zimmer and Schmalz
In the MATCH cooperation project, the Zimmer Group and Schmalz developed an end-of-arm ecosystem with a comprehensive function package and universal interfaces. The system enables an automated gripper change in the fixture.

Comau has released the Comau Next Generation Programming Platform, a protocol that uses the Uniform Robotics Data Interface (URDI) communication standard to simplify robot programming.

Volker Spanier was confirmed as Chairman of the VDMA Robotics Executive Board for the new 2021-2024 term of office following new elections to the Executive Board of the Robotics Division.

The startup Fruitcore Robotics has raised 17 million euros in a Series A financing round. The capital comes from three venture capital firms.

After two billion grips, it can retire - the 'IRB 340 Flexpicker'. The delta robot for handling tasks from ABB has been enriching the Fraunhofer IPA's 'Milestones in Robotics' exhibition since October 1, 2021.

Locus Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for robotic warehouse automation is establishing this location to support customers in Europe.
Without collision measurement and biofidelic measurement systems, it has not yet been possible to determine the maximum permissible speeds of a cobot. This is now set to change.
Particularly high safety requirements apply at the interfaces between humans and robots. However, this is precisely where enormous efficiency potential can be exploited, as the example of the modernization of a 'Kitkat' factory shows.

The Kion Group licenses Fraunhofer IML's LoadRunner technology for its group of companies. The autonomous vehicle swarm equipped with artificial intelligence is to be further developed and industrialized in a joint enterprise lab.