United Robotics Group, a European provider of service robotics, presents an extensive portfolio of robotics solutions for various industrial sectors, including CobiotX, the new generation of service robots. By incorporating products from its recent acquired Spanish subsidiary Robotnik Automation, the company debuts application showcases for the inspection and maintenance sector.
BMW Group Plant Regensburg uses an end-to-end digitalised and automated process for inspection, processing and marking of painted vehicle surfaces in standard production. AI-controlled robots process each vehicle individually to meet quality standards. This ensures more stable operations, shorter lead times and a consistently high level of vehicle surface quality. Data stored in the cloud also enables optimal analysis of causalities.
OTTO Motors and Kollmorgen have announced a strategic technical collaboration on autonomous material handling. They will jointly develop self-driving vehicle applications to OEMs and System Integrators that deliver material handling solutions to end-users globally.
Boring, strenuous, and exhausting are things of the past. The work environment of tomorrow looks different: exciting, simple, and easy. Cobots, AGVs (Autonomous Guided Vehicles), and AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots) put variety into daily work routines. Cooperation with the robot transforms previously tedious, strenuous tasks into popular activities that are easy to perform. Numerous exhibitors at automatica, held in Munich from June 27 to 30, 2023, will present examples of such transformations.
“Our time is characterized by major global challenges such as climate protection, supply chain resilience, lack of specialists, and the establishment of digital production facilities Rocking Robots sat down with Anja Schneider, Exhibition Director of automatica, to discuss the growing significance of automatica as the world’s leading exhibition for intelligent automation and robotics, and the rapidly evolving role of robotics in organizations.
As is the case with any type of infrastructure, sewers require regular maintenance. But the often narrow pipes below the ground are difficult to access. Instead of unearthing them at great expense, users of trenchless renovation procedures use specialized robots that carry out the work in the interior of the pipelines. Pipetronics is manufacture of sewer robotics. Markus Lämmerhirt, a member of the management board, talks about the highly specialized industry.
On the occasion of the company’s 75th anniversary, FAULHABER received a special honor by the municipality of Schönaich: From November 1, the street leading to the company site will be called Faulhaberstraße and the company building will bear the house number 1.
Digitalisierung, Fachkräftemangel, Nachhaltigkeit: Die Arbeitswelt hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark transformiert und stellt Unternehmen vor eine wachsende Anzahl an Herausforderungen. Auch die Arbeitseinstellung der kommenden Generation von Mitarbeitenden verändert sich und nimmt Einfluss auf den Arbeitsmarkt: Junge Talente haben ein neues Verständnis von Arbeit und damit einhergehende Ansprüche an ihren Arbeitsplatz. Um langfristig für gut ausgebildete Bewerberinnen attraktiv zu bleiben, müssen Unternehmen sich kontinuierlich neu ausrichten.
In recent years, the integration of robots into the workplace has become increasingly prevalent. Nadine Reißner, Senior UX Researcher at KUKA, believes that it is time to put the human into focus in the development of robot technologies. For this, one important part is to consider the impact of human-robot interaction on the human. In a workshop at the European Robotics Forum she presents the consortium’s initial findings on this topic.
Microsoft Germany has announced that GPT-4 will be released this week, according to the company’s CTO, Andreas Braun. The announcement was made during an event called “AI in Focus – Digital Kickoff” last week. The event focused on large language models (LLMs) like GPT, and their potential to disrupt companies, as well as Microsoft’s Azure-OpenAI offering.
