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Italy Has the Most Robotics and Automation Companies in Europe, Finds Report

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Italy is making its mark as a leader in the European robotics and automation industry, according to a new report from HowToRobot in collaboration with UCIMA, the Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association. With a total of 655 companies, the Italian industry is the largest in Europe by number of businesses, ahead of France and Germany, said the study. “Italy is…


AutoStore Introduces Enhanced FusionPort Workstations for Bin Picking

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…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…


To Help Recover Balance, Robotic Exoskeletons Have to Be Faster Than Human Reflexes

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…the University of Padua in Italy. “One thing that’s really special about this is, we were able to ask a very specific question about the interaction between the exoskeleton and human and understand a bit more about how exoskeleton either helps or disrupts human physiological responses,” Shepherd said. “This study is a very clean way to offer insight into improving…


Team PoliMOVE Makes a ‘Threepeat,’ Winning Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES 2023

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…University of Alabama. The Milan, Italy-based team consists of 12 Ph.D. students and research assistants, supported by about 15 MsC students and three faculty advisors, plus participants from the University of Alabama. PoliMOVE previously won the IAC at CES in January 2022 and the IAC at the Texas Motor Speedway in November 2022. It also set a land-speed record of…


Indy Autonomous Challenge Returns to CES 2023 and Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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…Waterloo (Canada) PoliMOVE—Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Alabama, which won last January's challlenge at CES. It also won the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco at the Texas Motor Speedway in November (see full video below). TII EuroRacing—University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Technology Innovation Institute (United Arab Emirates) TUM Autonomous Motorsport—Technical University of Munich (Germany),…


Raven Industries Debuts Driverless Tillage and Driver Assist Harvest Solutions at CNH Industrial Tech Day

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…Burr Ridge, Ill., and Modena, Italy, collaborated with strategic partner Monarch Tractor. The electric tractor prototype had New Holland Agriculture branding, while the commercial model will also extend to CNH's Case IH brand. The company touted the first-generation, battery electric light vehicle's power of 120hp, full-day endurance, and performance compared with diesel models. It also said the new tractor is…


Comau Provides Welding Robots for Foton Daimler Production of Actros Trucks

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…business modules,” he said. Turin, Italy-based Comau provides industrial automation, collaborative and wearable robotics, autonomous logistics systems, and digital services and products. The unit of automaker Stellantis said it has more than 45 years of experience, more than 4,000 employees, six innovation centers, five digital hubs, and nine manufacturing plants in 13 countries. It has an office in Southfield, Mich.…


PickUpPort Allows Customers to Pick Orders Directly From AutoStore System

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…the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. AutoStore PickUpPort designed for consumers The AutoStore System consists of an aluminum grid, robots, bins, ports, and a controller. The stacked bins are arranged in a grid. Robots ride on rails along the top of the grid, retrieving bins as needed. The bins are then delivered to a…


Fabric to Integrate Reply’s Supply Chain Platform With Its Warehouse Robots

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…of Things (IoT). The Turin, Italy-based company delivers consulting, systems integration, and digital services to organizations across the telecommunications and media, industry and services, banking and insurance, and public sectors. LEA Reply is designed to enable efficient, agile and connected supply chains, said Reply. It consists of a suite of microservices covering various business processes including the management of warehousing,…


Team NimbRo Wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE, Demonstrating Effective Robot Telepresence

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…Seoul, South Korea AlterEgo, Genoa, Italy Avatar-Hubo, Las Vegas Last Mile, Osaka, Japan Dragon Tree Labs, Moscow The mobile manipulators needed to traverse space in a simulated energy plant, find a weighted canister, and successfully pick and place them. NimbRo conducted its task in about 5:50, about half the time of second-place winner, Pollen Robotics. Team Northeastern placed third with…


IFR: Industrial robots and cobots installs hit “all time high” globally last year

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…of total installations in Europe. Italy followed with 17% and France with 7%. In 2021, 50,712 industrial robots were installed in the Americas, 31% more than in 2020. This is a remarkable recovery from the pandemic dip in 2020, IFR added, and the second time that robot installations in the Americas exceeded the 50,000-unit mark, with 55,212 units in 2018…


IFR’s World Robotics Report Finds More Than Half a Million Robots Were Deployed Globally Last Year

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…of total installations in Europe. Italy followed, with 17%, and France, with 7%. The number of installed robots in Germany grew by 6% to 23,777 units in 2021. This is the second highest installation count ever recorded, following the peak of 26,723 units caused by massive investments from the automotive industry in 2018. The IFR calculated the operational stock of…


Indy Autonomous Challenge Is Going Back to the Texas Motor Speedway

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…PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and the University of Alabama (USA) set a new land speed world record of 192.2 mph at the historic Kennedy Space Center in April. That prompted the adoption of refreshed technology on all IAC racecars moving forward. More on Ciso’s technologies Cisco powers the in-vehicle networking and connectivity to and from the vehicles for…


MAGNI TH and euroTECH to Jointly Exhibit Vacuum Handling on Lift at Bauma 2022

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…traveled to Castelfranco Emilia in Italy to seal the deal with Magni Telescopic Handlers (MTH). He and Carlo Magni, managing director of MTH, said they have a similar philosophy about understanding and addressing customer needs. Rosenfeld, Germany-based euroTECH offers handling and transport systems in the field of vacuum technology. The company develops and produces customer-specific vacuum systems and components for…


Amazon to Buy Mechatronics Maker Cloostermans to Expand Warehouse Efforts

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…its European Innovation Lab in Italy. It said it was “designed to enhance the employee experience through the development of advanced technologies that support safer ways of working.” Robotics is a big part of the innovation lab's mission, according to Amazon. Not only does Amazon use mobile robots in its warehouses, but it also develops and tests numerous types of…


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