German industrial group STIHL, manufacturer of chainsaw power tools, forestry machinery and robotic lawn mowers, announced a significant investment in the Danish robotics company, TinyMobileRobots. STIHL’s robotic lawn mowers share a strong technical kinship with the advanced and fully autonomous line marking robots produced by TinyMobileRobots, which are intended for use in sports fields, road construction, agriculture and more.
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The Internal Revenue Service is using software robots from UiPath to better manage its finance and procurement functions.
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Knightscope, developer of security robots, has announced that it will be listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “KSCP.” Knightscope based in Silicon Valley, and builds fully autonomous security robots that deter, detect and report. Their ambition is ‘to make the United States of America the safest country in the world’.
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NEC Corporation is developing control technology that must double the efficiency of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) in warehouses, while maintaining a high level of safety. NEC plans to put this technology into practical use by March 2024 and to have it installed in NEC’s cooperative AMRs in Japan.
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The study of robotics has long been a point of fascination as researchers have sought to discover the potential for automated technology. While the development of autonomous machines certainly isn’t new, mobile robots have found their way into a variety of industries as of late, especially in the manufacturing industry—specifically, quadrupedal robots.
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Seegrid Corporation, provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling, announced that it will be showcasing its newest autonomous lift truck, Seegrid Palion Lift, for the first time at MODEX, the world’s largest manufacturing and supply chain trade event.
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Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), experienced a 42% increase in sales in 2021 over 2020. December alone was a record month for the company, with close to 300 robots shipped, which is more than any previous month.
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What are the latest trends in automation? At the beginning of the new year there are of course all kinds of predictions. For the manufacturing-industry Diego Lombardo, VP of Product Marketing at UiPath, recently highlighted some market trends for Europe in the webinar Automation Accelerates: Industry Trends for 2022 and Beyond.
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Continental’s development and production service provider Continental Engineering Services (CES) is working with startup Volterio on developing an intelligent charging robot. They plan to release the jointly designed charging robot by mid-2022. With CES meeting all necessary certification criteria of the automotive industry, it will then also develop the system to production maturity and ultimately take over the production of the charging robot.
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Continental entwickelt gemeinsam mit Volterio vollautomatischen Laderoboter für E-Fahrzeuge
Continentals Entwicklungs- und Produktionsdienstleister Continental Engineering Services (CES) entwickelt gemeinsam mit dem Startup-Unternehmen Volterio einen intelligenten Laderoboter, der das Stromtanken künftig deutlich einfacher und komfortabler macht. Dafür sind CES und Volterio nun offiziell eine Partnerschaft eingegangen. Dabei wird CES bis Mitte 2022 erste seriennahe Systeme des gemeinsam konzipierten Laderoboters entwickeln.