Day: June 24, 2020

  • Comau launches global support network for small businesses

    Comau launches global support network for small businesses

    Comau has launched a global web-based networking platform designed to support general industrial small medium enterprise. The company says the platform will help create a “win-win ecosystem” between verified systems integrators and companies exploring automation opportunities. To help industries of all sizes reap the benefits of automation in an intelligent and cost-effective manner, the Comau…

  • Hyundai Robotics launches its first ‘mobile service robot’

    Hyundai Robotics launches its first ‘mobile service robot’

    Newly created company Hyundai Robotics has launched its first “mobile service robot”. The company held an research and development presentation for the mobile service robot – which has been named “UNI” – at its Yongin Research Lab recently. The first part of the presentation was a demonstration, and the second part consisted of a presentation…

  • PAL Robotics delivery robots for hospitals now integrate Accerion positioning sensors

    PAL Robotics delivery robots for hospitals now integrate Accerion positioning sensors

    PAL Robotics is using delivery robots that are now integrate Accerion positioning sensors. The TIAGo Delivery Robot will part of the fight against coronavirus in hospitals and is scheduled to start operating in hospitals next month. With the unpredictable health crisis of Covid-19 continuing to place high demands on hospitals, PAL Robotics is building a…

  • DHL partners with Microsoft and Blue Yonder to develop platform for warehouse robots

    DHL partners with Microsoft and Blue Yonder to develop platform for warehouse robots

    DHL Supply Chain has launched what it describes as a new “plug and play” robotics platform in collaboration with Microsoft, and artificial intelligence driven digital fulfillment provider Blue Yonder. The robotics platform significantly reduces integration time and programming efforts to on-board new automation devices into warehouse facilities, while giving DHL customers more flexibility in selecting…

  • Country Garden builds ‘world’s first’ robot restaurant in China

    Country Garden builds ‘world’s first’ robot restaurant in China

    Country Garden says it has built what it claims is “the world’s first-ever robot restaurant complex” in Guangdong, China. The modern eaterie was opened on June 22 by Qianxi Robot Catering Group, a subsidiary of Country Garden. The location is Shunde, a city in China’s Guangdong province. Powered by the latest in advanced technologies, the…

  • Caterpillar acquires delivery robot maker Marble

    Caterpillar acquires delivery robot maker Marble

    Caterpillar, the manufacturer of large-scale equipment for sectors such as construction, mining and transportation, has agreed to acquire Marble, a startup company that makes delivery robots. According to a report on construction news website KHL.com, Caterpillar is looking to build on its work in autonomous mining vehicles, where it’s famous for using gigantic driverless dump…

  • Grote automates sandwich production using Stäubli robot to make one per second

    Grote automates sandwich production using Stäubli robot to make one per second

    US-based company Grote specializes in automating production lines that slice, fill and cut sandwiches. Until recently, the upper and lower halves of the sandwich were put together manually. Now, Grote has managed to automate this process as well, using a Stäubli TX2-60 HE six-axis robot with wash-down capability. Filling a sandwich is not a particularly…