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SoftWear Automation, a company which builds machines for the textiles industry, is launching something it calls “Sewbots as a service”.
“Sewbots” – short for sewing robots – is the name the company uses for its automated sewing machines, and whereas previously it was looking to sell units, now it will also hire them out.
If SoftWear’s technology takes off, it will have dramatic implications for the textiles industry. [Read more…] about SoftWear Automation launches ‘Sewbots as a service’
The National Expo Center in Kiev, Ukraine has set a new record for the highest number of automated lockers in one place.
The record was announced by the Guinness Records Committee as the largest electronic locking parcel lockers station in the world.
The Guinness Records Committee said “the most electronic locking parcel lockers in one single venue is 1,182”, granting the creators of the project with the “Officially Amazing” Guinness World Record certificate. [Read more…] about World’s largest automated lockers record broken
Micropsi Industries, a robotics software company, provides its predictions of the technologies that will affect manufacturing and industrial robots this year.
Ronnie Vuine, founder and CEO, Micropsi Industries, says: “Smart industrial robots aren’t science fiction anymore.
“Equipped with more and more sensors and ever-easier to program, robots can now take on repetitive or dangerous tasks that were too hard to automate, even just two years ago. [Read more…] about Industrial robotics: 5 trends in 2019 and beyond
Spot welding is becoming ever faster and more reliable, as illustrated by a customer-specific solution installed at Volvo in Sweden.
The ingredients of this special Swedish recipe are electric drive technology and vision systems from Festo, linked to the automation platform CPX.
In the south Swedish town of Olofström lies the most important bodywork plant of the Volvo group.
[Read more…] about Volvo installs fast Festo spot-welding solution
Visteon Corporation, a leading global cockpit electronics supplier, and China internet technology leader Tencent will cooperate to develop autonomous driving and intelligent cockpit solutions, initially for Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) R&D Center in China.
Under the agreement, Visteon’s SmartCore cockpit domain control platform will incorporate Tencent Automotive intelligence (TAI) solutions to enable user interaction and control based on facial expression and voice and gesture recognition.
Visteon, Tencent and GAC R&D will jointly develop, and share research results for, intelligent technologies for an integrated cockpit project targeted for commercialisation on GAC pure electric vehicles starting in 2020.
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Automation is one of the things that plays a big part in the world of business, and will become even more important in the future.
As technology progresses, businesses develop better ways of doing things, and adapt to embrace the world of tech.
It is pretty clear that there are a lot of things to keep in mind when it comes to integrating technology into your business. [Read more…] about Automation: What it Means for the Future of Business
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU have developed an innovative technology enabling people and large industrial robots to work together in an intuitive way that feels a lot like human teamwork.
Currently, heavy-duty robots operate alongside their human coworkers without safety fencing, but direct interaction is a no-go. Safety precautions dictate that the robot freezes as soon as a human sets foot in a sizeable surrounding safety zone.
Using the benefit of this technology, robots can recognise gestures, faces and postures to make this collaboration that much safer and more efficient.
[Read more…] about New algorithms for heavy industrial robot-human collaboration
