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Quanta Storage, the company behind the Techman industrial robot, is aiming to ship 1,000 collaborative robots this year, according to a report on DigiTimes.com.
The company is further planning to ship another 2,000 units in 2018, says the website.
Techman produces a range of collaborative robots. The TM5 has two models – one with a payload of 6 kg and another with a payload of 4 kg. [Read more…] about Quanta Storage aiming to ship 1,000 collaborative robots this year
US telecommunications company Sprint is employing Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank Robotics, for customer relations.
SoftBank Robotics America and Sprint to will initially place Pepper in locations where it will interact with Sprint business clients and retail customers.
Pepper is said to be the first humanoid marketing platform that could help businesses and consumers embrace the power of robotics and artificial intelligence. [Read more…] about Telecommunications company Sprint to employ Pepper robot for customer relations
A company called Canvas Technology has launched what it claims is the world’s first self-driving industrial cart.
The company says the logistics robot brings driverless vehicles to workplaces “long before self-driving vehicles hit street”.
Canvas says its carts are also the first self-driving vehicles to use 3D vision to map and navigate dynamic indoor workplaces. [Read more…] about Canvas Technology launches ‘world’s first self-driving carts’ for factories and warehouses
GE Ventures and Silver Lake have invested $40 million into Aras, a provider of enterprise product lifecycle management software.
The investment round was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a fund of Silver Lake, with participation from GE Ventures, the investment arm of General Electric.
Aras says it will use this minority investment to drive growth, expand operations – including Aras’ service and support – and further extend Aras’ technology leadership through development and acquisitions. [Read more…] about GE Ventures and Silver Lake invest $40 million into Aras product lifecycle management
Nabors Industries, an oil and gas drilling company, has acquired Robotic Drilling Systems, a provider of automated tubular and tool handling equipment for the onshore and offshore drilling markets.
This transaction integrates the RDS team and product offering with the technology portfolio of Canrig, Nabors rig equipment subsidiary, and strengthens the development of its drilling automation solutions.
The RDS modular systems are applicable both in onshore and offshore markets, on new builds as well as retrofits. [Read more…] about Offshore drilling company Nabors acquires Robotic Drilling Systems
Spectral Imaging, or Specim, has agreed to an investment of €3.5 million ($4.2 million) by Bocap SME Achievers Fund, with the aim to double its current €10 million revenues by 2020.
Specim is a global pioneer in hyperspectral imaging technology and related products and solutions. Its products are widely used in industrial, environmental and security applications.
Specim’s solutions serve mining industries in drill core scanning and producing mineral maps, agriculture to screen the crops for disease and infestation, and they are key components in waste-sorting robotics. [Read more…] about Bocap invests $4.2 million in Specim vision systems for waste-sorting robot
Swisslog has secured an order for the first of its PowerStore intralogistics systems from Coca-Cola Malaysia.
As part of Coca-Cola Malaysia’s investment of RM500 million ($119 million) to expand the size and production capacity of its current plant at Bandar Enstek, the company has commissioned Swisslog for a flexible, robotic, data-driven automated warehouse for intralogistics.
This will make it the first Swisslog PowerStore system in South East Asia. [Read more…] about Coca-Cola orders robotic warehouse system from Swisslog
Cambridge Medical Robotics, which is developing a surgical robot, has released the first photographs of the system, Versius.
The images show the “revolutionary” design of the robot, including its “highly versatile” surgical bio-mimicking arms.
The release of the photographs marks a major milestone, says CMR, which aims to make minimal access surgery available to all the estimated 6 million people a year who could benefit and make it easier for laparoscopic surgeons to learn and perform the technique. [Read more…] about Cambridge Medical unveils its new surgical robot
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to create a national framework for the development and testing of driverless cars.
Until now, the situation has been that each individual state deals with automakers which want to test and develop autonomous cars in their area.
The new measure would allow automakers to acquire permits for up to 25,000 vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards, according to Reuters. [Read more…] about US politicians approve driverless car bill
The Industrial Technology Research Institution of Taiwan says it is working with local manufacturers to develop what it says will be more “affordable” robots for factories and warehouses – in other words, collaborative robots.
This is according to a report in the Taipei Times.
Patrick Yu, acting division director of ITRI’s mechanical and mechatronics systems research labs, is quoted on the website as saying: “Traditional industrial robots are suitable for large-scale production lines. They need a lot of space and cost a lot of money, which small and medium-sized enterprises cannot afford.”
Traditional robots – the large industrial machines which tend to be caged off and require separate computers to run them, called programmable logic controllers – are said to be too big and expensive for a lot of smaller companies, says ITRI. [Read more…] about Taiwan to develop ‘affordable’ industrial robots for factories and warehouses
