Cobot

Universal Robots, the Danish collaborative robot (cobot) company, has reported Q4 revenue of USD 85 million, bringing 2022 annual revenue to USD 326 million, up 5% on 2021. On a constant currency basis, growth over the year was 12%.

Last week, the fifth edition of the National Cobot Day took place at Olmia in Tiel. Visitors could network and exchange knowledge about the rapidly growing cobot market in a relaxed atmosphere. ‘We see that robots are not used to replace people, but to enable them to do other, more challenging work.’

At IMTS in Chicago, September 12-17, OnRobot will demonstrate an automated, application-centered software platform for robotic deployment. D:PLOY is presented as a turning point in OnRobot’s strategic evolution that began with its line of intuitive robotic tools and software, expanding the concept of collaborative automation.

Universal Robots’ UR20 makes its U.S. Debut at IMTS 2022, Expanding Cobot Automation in Machining Industry. Earlier this Cobot was unveiled in Europe at Automatica 2022.

NEURA Robotics has presented a range commercial cognitive robots family that can be used both in industry and as an intelligent Personal Assistant. Unlike conventional cobots, cognitive robots are meant to perceive their environment with all their senses, act autonomously based on AI, learn from experience, and can safely distinguish humans from other objects.

OnRobot has launched OnRobot Palletizer, a collaborative palletizing solution designed to take the physical and financial pain out of palletizing processes. OnRobot Palletizer extends OnRobot’s application-first approach to collaborative automation by letting users choose a palletizing system that works for their specific application needs thanks to its space saving footprint, and ability to handle many different types of boxes, packages, patterns, pallets and stacking heights.

Lightning eMotors has completed the expansion of its manufacturing campus in Loveland, Colorado by 102,000 square feet to a total of over 226,000 square feet and reconfigured workstations throughout the plant to incorporate advanced automation and augmented reality systems across multiple workstations and assembly areas.

Danish producer of collaborative robots Universal Robots has reported record annual revenue of USD 311M, 41% up on 2020 and 23% up on pre-pandemic results in 2019.

OnRobot make its software debut with the launch of WebLytics, a production monitoring, device diagnostics, and data analytics solution. WebLytics gathers equipment data from both robots and tools and transforms it into visualized device and application-level intelligence.

Universal Robots, which has just released its Q3 results for 2021, has reported record quarterly revenue of USD 78 million, up 46% on last year’s Q3 revenue and 31% up from its pre-pandemic Q3 revenue of 2019.