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…seeking automated solutions,” Mühlens said. Fraunhofer Institute designs dual-arm cucumber harvester Harvesting cucumbers is a physically demanding task. Some companies have workers lie prone on a support surface behind a vehicle, picking the vegetables off the vines by hand. In more rudimentary businesses, workers walk down rows carrying a harvesting bucket, bending down to look for the ripe cucumbers. Carrying…
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…customers like BMW, Bayer, VW, Fraunhofer, Schaeffler, Rotop, and Vitesco. The company has also partnered with operational technology (OT) systems integrators in Europe such as Gibas, Alumotion, Heidenbluth, and Sojka. Wandelbots plans to use its latest financing to open its Robotics Software Platform to automation providers and the third-party developer community. The opening will enable developers to build their own…
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…logistics team worked with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML in Dortmund to document the requirements for a new facility. After picking, the contents of each tote is photographed. Source: HARTING Technology Group Ideas competition In 2013, HARTING sent a 300-page requirements document to 10 companies it believed might be interested in creating the warehouse. One of…
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…launched a new partnership with Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Germany. Ampower, an additive manufacturing consultancy, concluded in their independent benchmark study “Productivity Evaluation for Metal Additive Manufacturing Systems” that Additive Industries’ MetalFAB1 systems combine the lowest system investment with the lowest total cost per part and…
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…the Bionic Aircraft project: The Fraunhofer Institute for Additive Production Technologies IAPT, has developed optimized support structures. Support structures provide the needed support to additive manufactured components at certain areas, for example at overhangs, and must be removed after the 3D print. “Thanks to an optimized geometry, the new support structures do not need as much powder. We were inspired…
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…trends plus insights from industry thought-leaders such as the World Bank, Fraunhofer Institute, HP and 500 Startups on the future of the logistics industry. Transformative pilot projects from DHL Trend Research are also highlighted in the report such as DHL’s testing of collaborative robots in warehouse operations.
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
