Moon delivery service company Astrobotic and Lunar Logistics Services are teaming up for the European Space Agency’s first commercial delivery on the moon in 2024. The companies have been selected by the European Agency to carry a landing sensor called the LandCam-X on Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One, GM1. The announcement was made during the 73rd International Astronautical Congress in Paris. “Innovative technologies are a must to open the dawning new era of lunar exploration, with more sustainable and global access…
MachineMetrics earlier this month announced the availability of its Connector for Universal Robots (UR). The product, which is part of the UR+ program, is designed to give customers better access to data that will help them determine the health and performance of their cobots. “Connecting to – and capturing real-time data from – manufacturing equipment is what enables our customers to quickly and easily understand their production performance and the health of their machines,” said Bill Bither, CEO and co-founder…
Jobs and tasks change over time. This is true not just for manufacturing, but for any industry—and often for the better. Ice cutters from before the 1930’s may have enjoyed the natural exercise that came with the job of sawing ice blocks off frozen lakes, but having freezers make ice cubes instead was likely seen by most people as a way forward. The usual solutions within manufacturing no longer apply: Offering human laborers to work the same dirty, dull, and…
KUKA Systems Corp. has partnered with a U.S-based modular housing company to bring automation to home construction. Yesterday, the robotics company announced it has worked with Waypaver International to produce System P4, a factory system template for modular house building that was designed by Waypaver and uses KUKA’s robots. Augsburg, Germany-based KUKA and Boise, Idaho,-based Waypaver said they designed System P4 to help address the global housing crisis caused by labor shortages and the construction industry’s slow technological progress. The…
Geek Plus Technology Co. announced today that it has deployed more than 150 of its goods-to-person robots at the facility of a heating, ventilation, and air condition specialist in northwestern Germany. With a warehouse that stores over 80,000 different products, OEG is taking advantage of Geek+’s P800 picking robots and custom-made shelving. The systems were installed in OEG’s warehouse in Hessisch Odendorf, Germany. The facility stores OEG’s different spare parts and accessories for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.…
ABB has launched its first range of rebranded autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, following its acquisition of ASTI Mobile Robotics in July 2021. ASTI Mobile Robotics’ products have been rebranded and integrated into ABB’s portfolio, grouped under the Flexley name, indicating the flexibility of operations that the AMRs offer, the company said. The first models to be released, Flexley Tug and Flexley Mover, cover applications including towing, trolley transportation up to 2,000 kg (4,409 lb.), as well as lifting and…
While the global construction market continues to grow, the number of surveyors could be a limiting factor. Robots can help augment human labor. Civ Robotics today announced a $5 million seed funding round. The San Francisco-based startup has designed CivDot, an unmanned ground vehicle or UGV for civil engineering and infrastructure projects. The global construction market exceeded $10 trillion in 2020, with $3.4 trillion spent on large infrastructure projects, according to Oxford Economics. Over the next decade, $1.2 trillion will…
A customer enters Roose’s Chocolate World at Havenstraat 1 in Bruges. She approaches a box made of glass the size of a small room. Inside, several displays filled with delicious chocolates in various colors and shapes. Is there a salesperson expecting an order? If so, they are nowhere to be seen. Instead, the customer places her finger on a touchscreen terminal, scrolls through the range, puts together a collection of chocolates, and places a transport box on the base of…
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