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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...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
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...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...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...Conveyor technology and intralogistics
Jan Drömer, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ek robotics, is taking over the chairmanship of the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association for the next two years.
read more...Instead of using automation to make existing processes more efficient, a group of researchers in Linz is trying to rethink these processes in a free and new way. Keyword: creative robotics.
read more...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...The year is off to a fast start for companies and is already bringing with it all kinds of collaborations and changes at this early stage. Developments in the field of robotics and control technology are not standing still either, as our top articles of January show.
read more...In Germany, robot density in the manufacturing industry is in third place behind South Korea and Singapore, according to the latest results of the World Robotics Report by the International Federation of Robotics.
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