Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.07
March 24, 2023
…followed by the United States counting 1,457 units and Japan with 1,422 units per 10,000 workers. The world´s biggest car manufacturer, China, has a robot density of 772 units, but is catching up fast: Within a year, new robot installations in the Chinese automotive industry almost doubled to 61,598 units in 2021- accounting for 52% of the total 119,405 units installed in factories around the world. IFR highlighted a number of governmental developments that are forcing the car industry to invest in electric vehicles. Electric vehicles drive automation The European Union has announced plans to end the sale of air-polluting…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.22
March 17, 2023
…U.S. office in Derry, N.H., AutoStore has facilities in Norway, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, as well as production facilities in Koszalin, Poland. It has installed more than 1,150 systems in 49 countries. AutoStore said its partner network of systems integrators handles distribution, design, installation, and service. Editor's note: For more about ProMat 2023, visit Robotics 24/7's special coverage page.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.28
March 15, 2023
…Rochester Hills, Mich.-based FANUC America is a subsidiary of Japan-based FANUC Corp. The company said it provides CNC systems, robotics, and ROBOMACHINEs, as well as expertise to help manufacturers maximize reliability and profitability. FANUC to demo growing CRX cobot line FANUC claimed that its expanded series of CRX collaborative robots can run for eight years without maintenance. Interactive programming enables users to teach points using hand guidance or a Tablet TP (teach pendant) with drag-and-drop icons, said the company. The latest CRX cobots complement FANUC’s existing lines of CR and CRX cobots that now total 11 model variations. They can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.82
March 14, 2023
…deployed beverage restocking robots across 300 convenience stores in Japan. Deutsche Bahn is training AI models to handle very important but unexpected corner cases that happen rarely in the real world — like luggage falling on a train track, to improve safety. Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots. Fraunhofer is developing advanced autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) using the physically accurate and full-fidelity visualization features of Isaac Sim. Soft Robotics is harnessing NVIDIA Isaac Sim to generate synthetic data to train their robotic gripping systems to handle delicate foods like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.22
March 10, 2023
…San Diego, Geek+ has offices in the U.K., Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Geek+ brings updated portfolio to ProMat Geek+ listed the following products that it will display at ProMat 2023: PopPick is Geek+’s most advanced goods-to-person system and is a finalist for the MHI Innovation Award. It includes picking robots to carry shelves from storage to workstations and robot arms present goods to the operator to improving order throughput. PopPick can pick up to 650 totes per hour, improve warehouse storage density by 50%, and double throughput capacity, Geek+ claimed. Four-Way Shuttle is a high-density storage system that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.25
March 08, 2023
…year, deploying the robots across the U.S., Europe, and Japan and continuing to grow our customer base,” Tenzer said in a statement. “Now is the time to build on these foundations by accelerating the scaling of customers and deployments. I’m very proud of this company and I look forward to working with Brian in my new role as chairman.” Tenzer added. RightHand touted Owen’s thirty years of experience in finance, technology, and commercial deployments. It added that Owen will be charged with helping the company scale up. Owen has decades of experience in technology Under Owen’s leadership at Cambridge Semantics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.31
March 01, 2023
The working population of Japan will decrease by 30% in the next 30 years, according to Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. The country's rapidly aging population is causing a shortage of labor in the security space, among others. SEQSENSE aims to solve this challenge by providing security services with autonomous robots. The Tokyo-based startup has developed the SQ-2 intelligent security robot. It can navigate inside buildings with a pre-created map of each floor. The mobile robot can also communicate with elevators to patrol multiple floors. Using autonomous robots for security offers several advantages. For example, surveillance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.15
February 02, 2023
…machine vision and parts handling, it said. Epson Robots is a unit of Epson Group, which is led by Japan-based Seiko Epson Corp. and reported annual sales of more than ¥1 trillion ($7.7 billion U.S.). The company's regional headquarters for the Americas is Epson America Inc. in Los Alamitos, Calif.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.27
January 26, 2023
…technology to solve the increasingly serious labor shortage in Japan and the gap between the growth of e-commerce demand and the growth of physical volume,” said Yusuke Arima, a member of the System Development Group at Geekplus. “After evaluating various integration platforms, Geekplus chose Boomi’s intelligent, low-code, cloud-native platform for its versatility, development speed, and ease of use,” he added. “The Boomi platform will enable us to connect our operations with our shippers, suppliers, and partners, while mitigating potential real-time supply chain issues.” Geek+ needs to simplify data for growth Geekplus Co. was established in Japan in 2017 as a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.12
January 20, 2023
…begun selling to end users in North America. Osaka, Japan-based Kubota Corp. develops a range of machinery designed for the agriculture industry. Its products include “lawn mowers, utility vehicles, construction equipment, agriculture tractors, and hay equipment,” according to its website. Kubota’s M5 tractors start at around $50,763 and were designed to be used by professionals in the agriculture space. The series was launched in 2015. Sabanto’s autonomy kit is designed to retrofit the M5 series with self-driving technologies. That in turn helps companies address labor challenges, Sabanto said, since the tractors can now operate autonomously and work continuously. “We are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.30
January 16, 2023
…Electrical Engineering at the Suwa University of Science in Japan. They have collaborated with the Thermal Spray Technology Development Laboratory of TOCALO Co. to develop a repair technique using LDED. “Using our technique, the surface shape of a metal structure can be completely restored onsite, and the disposal of the metal powder required for repair can be significantly reduced,” explained Prof. Arai, who has been actively involved in the research of damage mechanics and repair technology. “However, the optimum forming conditions required for the widespread application of this technology in industry had to be hitherto determined by a trial-and-error process.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.42
January 16, 2023
…deploying its first autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, in Japan to help connect builders with materials. DesignFuture Japan Inc. and Locus Robotics last week announced that they plan to deploy LocusBots in Material Bank Japan's distribution warehouse. Founded in 2019, Material Technologies Corp. said its system combines a multi-brand cross-search and bulk-billing capability with established logistics facilities. It said this enables next-day delivery of orders placed before midnight to anywhere in the U.S. The company said it has handled building material samples for more than 100,000 participating designers and 450 manufacturers. DesignFuture Japan is the Japanese arm of Material Bank,…
