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Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.27
…components from multiple sources, or they could use the RBTX Robotics Marketplace 2.0. Motion plastics provider igus GmbH last week announced an update to the RBTX.com marketplace it launched in 2019. The online platform brings providers and users of low-cost robotics together with the goal of making automation more accessible. The redesiged marketplace includes enhancements and new features to make it even easier for users to find components or complete solutions that meet their requirements and budget, said igus. “There are now 76 partners on our RBTX marketplace,” said Alexander Mühlens, head of the Automation Technology and Robotics Business Unit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.39
…and found out: Virtually all roads currently lead to RBTX.” RBTX is a marketplace for low-cost robotics, which unites manufacturers of robotic components in a construction kit. Robots from the Cologne-based plastics specialist igus® – including articulated arm robots, delta robots, and Cartesian vending machines – form the electromechanical framework. This framework can be expanded to include individual components from other manufacturers, such as cameras, GUIs, grippers, motors, sensors, or controllers. With just a few clicks, Roose assembled a robotic solution from these components. Michael Hornung, product manager for drylin® linear and drive technology international at igus®: “Compatibility is guaranteed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.19
…visitors. The roadshow aims always to automate directly on-site.” RBTX online marketplace: new partners are adding more and more new products to the range Since 2019, users have also had access to the igus RBTX marketplace – an online marketplace that brings users and manufacturers of low-cost robotics together. Mühlens continued: “At RBTX.com, interested parties can find compatible components from a total of 78 partners. The marketplace currently has 100 low-cost applications with parts lists and hardware and software compatibility for price transparency. As an open marketplace, we are always interested in new partners for the low-cost robotics mission to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.68
…stated Dr. Christian Meyer, founder of Commonplace Robotics. “The RBTX platform for low-cost robotics, operated by igus, brings new requirements from customers from all areas of the industry to our laboratories every day. Much of this can be implemented quickly, especially as we expand with this investment.” Meyer, who worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation at the time, founded Commonplace Robotics in 2011. The Bissendorf, Germany-based company said it works to make the integration and operation of robots so cost-effective and easy that they can be used anywhere. Its first products with a control system and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.37
…be mounted on a mobile robot. Credit: Eugene Demaitre RBTX bundles, free consulting to ease adoption Through igus' expanding RBTX online marketplace, customers can also choose validated end-of-arm tooling and vision systems from partners, as well as Delta and SCARA robots from other providers, Brockmeyer added. “We guarantee that everything will be low-cost and that everything fits together,” he said. “We recognized that people were looking for applications, not robots. Last year, we already had more than 200 application examples.” “We're adding products and bundles all the time. For example, we have a linear robot educational bundle and a laboratory…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.70
…the company has expanded by creating internal startups for technologies such as ball bearings, robot drives, 3D printing, the RBTX platform for Lean Robotics, and intelligent “smart plastics” for Industry 4.0. Among its most important environmental investments are the “chainge” program—recycling of used e-chains—and participation in Plastic2Oil, an enterprise that produces oil from plastic waste. “We are dreaming of a different kind of igus,’’ said Frank Blase CEO of igus GmbH. “We are dreaming of an igus that has the sense of really improving the world, in a genuine, honest and measurable way.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.29
…and sensors are available to automation novices at the RBTX automation marketplace. Now, users can configure an individual linear robot ready for connection faster and easier – in just five minutes and with instant price information, said igus. With the help of the online tools, any automation solution can be programmed and tested directly in the selected working area. Even small and medium-sized companies can immerse themselves without a barrier in the world of automation – without the know-how of specialists and CAD software, igus argued. Linear robots are available without control system from €1,000 ($1,048 U.S.) per unit, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.54
…More than 300 solutions are already available on the RBTX online marketplace as a source of inspiration for immediate imitation, 95 percent of which have an investment cost of fewer than $17,250. But igus simplifies the configuration and the control of Low Cost Automation. igus offers intuitive software for defining ReBeL robot movement sequences within 30 to 60 minutes – even without programming knowledge. The new AnyApp software will also be presented at Hannover Messe 2023. AnyApp is particularly well-suited to companies that combine robots from different manufacturers into automation solutions but do not want to learn multiple control software…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.46
…technologies including robot drives, 3D printing, ball bearings, the RBTX platform for Lean Robotics, and intelligent “smart plastics” for Industry 4.0. Company revenue, inventory grow igus predicted that growth will continue until 2023. The 32% increase in turnover from 2020 is a 26% increase from the previous record in 2019. In pursuit of its goal of being “the easiest company to deal with,” igus implemented its “No. 1 Catalog” plan. It said it has kept more than 80,000 additional items in stock or in higher quantities. The rate of catalog products shipped from igus' 15 distribution centers the same day…