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Archives for June 11, 2019

Taiwanese store employs robot to make and serve tea

June 11, 2019 by Mai Tao

A Taiwanese food and beverage store called Babo Arms is now using a collaborative robot from Universal Robots to make and serve tea.

Universal Robots’ UR5 unit was chosen by Babo Arms to “add a twist of modernity” into their production process.

Babo Arms were searching for an automated device to enhance operations and address the ongoing recruitment issue faced by the food and beverage industry. [Read more…] about Taiwanese store employs robot to make and serve tea

Filed Under: Industrial robots, News Tagged With: arms, babo, babo arms, beverage, business, cobot, collaborative, customers, drinks, employees, food, human, industry, intimacy, maintain, rate, repetitive, robot, robot makes tea, robots, space, staff, store, taiwanese, tasks, tea, time, traditional, universal, Universal Robots, ur, workers

Hydrogen fuel cell company Plug Power acquires EnergyOr

June 11, 2019 by Sam Francis

Plug Power, a provider of hydrogen engines and fueling solutions enabling e-mobility, has acquired EnergyOr. 

The transaction involves technology, assets, and personnel, but the financial terms have not been disclosed.

EnergyOr is based in Montreal, Canada, and is the leader in advanced lightweight and compact PEM (proton-exchange membrane) hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) systems for robotics, small scale material handling and aerospace applications. [Read more…] about Hydrogen fuel cell company Plug Power acquires EnergyOr

Filed Under: Industry, News Tagged With: applications, cell, company, energyor, fuel, hydrogen, plug, plug power, power, solutions, technology, uav

Kassow Robots prepares to enter North American market

June 11, 2019 by Sam Francis

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Kassow Robots, a startup company from Denmark which makes collaborative robots, is preparing to enter the North American market.

Kassow’s robots will be showcased for the first time in North America at the booth that the company’s new partner, Gibson Engineering, will set up at the expo ATX East in New York.

Kassow Robots has been expanding its partner network throughout Europe since it entered the market in June 2018 – the company has already found partners in countries that extend from Portugal to Bulgaria and from Denmark to Spain as well as in central Europe. [Read more…] about Kassow Robots prepares to enter North American market

Filed Under: Industrial robots, News Tagged With: company, engineering, gibson, kassow, kassow robots, market, north, partner, robots

ZF wins multi-billion-euro order for 8-speed automatic transmission

June 11, 2019 by Anna

ZF Friedrichshafen has received a customer order with a double-digit billion euro value for its enhanced 8-speed automatic transmission. The business is planned to run over a period of several years.

The latest version of ZF’s 8-speed transmission – a technology which has been production since 2009 – has been improved by integrating an electric drive. This also includes a hybrid variant.

The new transmission generation will start series production in 2022 at ZF’s plant in Saarbrücken, the lead production facility for ZF’s automatic passenger car transmissions.

[Read more…] about ZF wins multi-billion-euro order for 8-speed automatic transmission

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: automatic, automatic transmission, billion, business, drive, hybrid vehicles, order, production, speed, start, technology, transmission, zf

IOC takes delivery of zero emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from Toyota

June 11, 2019 by Anna

A fleet of Toyota Mirai zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell cars has been delivered to the International Olympic Committee  in Lausanne, Switzerland as a key part of the organisation’s mobility plan.

The eight fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) were unveiled on the eve of World Environment Day at Olympic House, the IOC’s new sustainability-driven headquarters to be inaugurated on 23 June 2019.

To allow refuelling of the vehicles, a temporary hydrogen fuelling station – one of the first in Switzerland – will be installed at the new headquarters, before a public station is commissioned nearby.

[Read more…] about IOC takes delivery of zero emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from Toyota

Filed Under: News, Transportation Tagged With: cell, fcev, fleet, fuel, future, games, headquarters, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, ioc, ioc's, mirai, mobility, olympic, organisations, station, support, switzerland, tokyo, toyota, vehicles, working, zero-emission

Six innovative companies nominated for grand prize at microtechnology trade show

June 11, 2019 by David Edwards

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Six innovative companies have been nominated for the grand prize at the microtechnology trade show EPHJ, the leading showcase for watchmaking, jewellery, and micro- and medical technologies sectors.

The jury of experts of the 2019 EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Fair has selected six highly innovative projects for the Exhibitors’ Grand Prix to be voted on by the exhibitors to select and announce the winner at the show, which will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 18-21 June.

Levitation of machines, the green properties of supercritical CO2, machine learning algorithms, new hope for the 16 million people suffering from retinal vein occlusion, a machine that is mightier than a spark and a new fine-layer treatment process are just a few of the spectacular innovations proposed by the six nominees for the 2019 Exhibitors’ Grand Prix selected by the Jury for the EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show. [Read more…] about Six innovative companies nominated for grand prize at microtechnology trade show

Filed Under: Features, Industry Tagged With: beckhoff, cleaning, companies, company, degreasing, dense, design, discharge, elliseting, ellistat, energy, ephj-epmt-smt, exhibitors, femtoprint, films, fine, fluid, gf, grand, high-precision, innovative, june, levitation, machine, machines, machining, medical, parts, prix, process, project, reduces, retinal, solutions, supercritical, sy&se, system, takes, technology, time, tool, tools, trade, vein, water, xplanar

Veo Robotics launches ‘FreeMove’ application development kit

June 11, 2019 by David Edwards

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Veo Robotics, a startup which is developing solutions which transform traditional industrial robots into collaborative robots, has launched an application development kit, called “FreeMove”.

Below, we publish a statement released by the company, in which Patrick Sobalvarro, CEO and co-founder, Veo Robotics, talks about the new product and the company. 

Readers may also be interested in an interview we recently published on YouTube in which we interview Molly McCarthy, VP business development at Veo. 

By Patrick Sobalvarro, CEO and co-founder, Veo Robotics

Veo Robotics builds intelligence and perception for industrial robots so that humans and robots can work together productively, safely, and comfortably in factories. 

Now, I’m very happy to announce the availability of our first product, the Veo FreeMove Application Development Kit.

We call it “FreeMove” because it allows production workers to move freely around large robots, and because it gives manufacturing engineers the freedom to design workcells that combine the ingenuity, dexterity, and judgment of human workers with the tirelessness, strength, and repeatability of industrial robots.

The Veo FreeMove ADK is suitable for use in development environments where automation engineers are developing new process steps for their factory lines. It includes our intelligent vision and control software and our Veo Studio user interface for collaborative workcell setup and configuration.

The FreeMove ADK does not yet include our fail-safe hardware, which will enter beta testing at the end of 2019, and therefore is not intended for use on a production line.

Veo FreeMove makes manufacturing more efficient and productive by reducing both capital and operating expenses. It allows manufacturing engineers to build production workcells that include both robots (or other automatic machinery) and human production workers.

This leads to shorter design times, less custom machinery, and thus less time before the workcell is operational on the line. And in production operations, it enables fluid human-machine interaction, leading to shorter takt times, higher unit production rates, and quicker fault recovery. (The word “takt” refers to the time between starting to work on one unit and starting the next.)

It means no more waiting for maintenance to unlock a workcell to clear a simple fault. Production lines can resume operation quickly and experience less downtime.

We designed Veo FreeMove to be easily installed in one day or less. Our powerful processor, which runs Veo’s intelligent vision software, connects to standard industrial robot controllers over Ethernet and discrete I/O cables.

Simply place the FreeMove 3D time-of-flight sensors at the periphery of your workcell and connect them to the processor, and the Veo Studio software will guide you through camera aiming and registration. Program your industrial robot in its native controller language and continue to use the software development tools you’ve been using – FreeMove will respond accordingly.

The production version of Veo FreeMove will be compliant with the ISO 13849 functional safety standard, meaning you’ll be able to design truly collaborative applications using standard industrial robots.

FreeMove constantly calculates protective separation distances between humans, robots, and any workpieces they may be carrying, and will override the robot program as necessary to safely slow and stop the robot before a production worker can reach it or the workpiece.

Veo FreeMove is the culmination of three years of advanced research and development – we visited over 100 factories and interviewed hundreds of manufacturing engineers.

In the summer of 2018, prototypes of the system were installed at three major manufacturers to test their functioning and the practicality of our approach.

We worked closely with their engineers, gathered feedback, and incorporated it into our development process.

The FreeMove ADK is the product of that work, and while we finalize the development of our production-ready version, you can use the FreeMove ADK to build improved production processes.

Those processes can then be implemented at scale with the full production version of Veo FreeMove in 2020.

Safe, fluid human-machine interaction is the future of manufacturing. It will enable faster product cycles, increased productivity, better uptime, and reduced costs, all with improved ergonomics and safety. We’d love to explore the advantages with you.

Filed Under: Industrial robots, News Tagged With: adk, development, engineers, freemove, industrial, manufacturing, product, production, robot, robotics, robots, software, veo, workcell

Mitsubishi Electric to sponsor MassRobotics in the USA

June 11, 2019 by Anna

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc. has announced a sponsorship deal with MassRobotics.

MassRobotics is an independent, non-profit organisation serving as an innovation hub for robotics and connected devices.

Through this sponsorship, Mitsubishi aims to enhance MassRobotics’ prototyping space so startups can accelerate testing and support startup initiatives to develop the next generation of advanced manufacturing solutions that use cutting-edge technology and robots for factory automation customers worldwide.

[Read more…] about Mitsubishi Electric to sponsor MassRobotics in the USA

Filed Under: Industrial robots, News Tagged With: automation, connected, develop, electric, generation, independent, massrobotics, mitsubishi, mitsubishi electric automation, robotics, solutions, sponsorship, startups

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