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Kawasaki is clearly very pleased with the appearance of not one but two of its industrial robots in the new Hollywood blockbuster film, Transformers 5: The Last Knight.
The company has been crowing about its fame on its website.
The two Kawasaki RS010L robots make an appearance in the Transformers film. [Read more…] about Kawasaki gloating over appearance of its robots in latest Transformers film
Comau has signed deals with two new partner companies in Greece and Argentina.
In Greece, Comau has appointed the Nimac Group as its robotics distributor.
Nimac (pictured above) is located in Thessalonikki, and started the production of horizontal panel saws in 1977. It is now said to be one of the top manufacturers in the beam saws sector.
The newly created business line, Nimac Robotics, will bring the Comau’s robotics and automation products portfolio to the Greek market. [Read more…] about Comau signs up new robotics and automation partners in Greece and Argentina
An automated painting system, involving an industrial robot, is claimed to save significant resources by its developer, the Fraunhofer Institute.
The robotic system – called SelfPaint – is said by Fraunhofer to offer reductions of 20 percent in paint use, 15 percent in energy consumption and 5 percent in production time.
These are “significant advantages” compared to manual painting operations, which have previously been the preferred option, adds Fraunhofer. [Read more…] about New robotic painting system saves ‘significant’ resources, claims Fraunhofer
Mobile robotics in material handling and logistics will become a $75 billion market by 2027, according to a new report, which adds that it will be more than double by 2038.
These staggering headline figures mask turbulent transformative change underneath: some technologies will rise and transform the fortunes of industries, fuelling growth rates far outpacing recent trends, whilst others will face with decay and obsolescence.
“We are at the beginning of the beginning of a transformative change, and the time to plan is now,” says the report by IDTechEx Research. [Read more…] about Market for logistics robots predicted to exceed $75 billion in 10 years
By John Murdoch, Alfacon Solutions
Lloyd Betcher, vice president of operations and services with Kuntz Electroplating (KEI), recently shared that the firm will celebrate 70 years in business next year.
A family owned and operated business since 1948, KEI boasts North America’s largest and most advanced metal finishing operation for original equipment manufacturers of steel and aluminum components.
As the first metal finisher to simultaneously achieve ISO 9002 and ISO 14001 certification, Kuntz set the industry’s benchmark for quality and service. [Read more…] about Opinion: Automation ‘engineer to order’ solution reduces rejects by almost 11 percent for electroplating company
A mobile robot called Tally has got a job at Schnucks grocery stores, where it will wander round the aisles and make mental notes of what products are running low on stock and checking prices.
Developed by Simbe Robotics, Tally is said to perform the tasks humans might find boring and time-consuming. It can do this while customers are shopping or after the stores close.
Simbe claims Tally is the “world’s first fully autonomous robotic shelf auditing and analytics solution for the retail industry”, and suggests the technology could save some of the $450 billion retailers lose annually through inefficiencies which Tally can help resolve. [Read more…] about Schnucks grocery stores give Tally the robot some work to do checking the shelves
Kiva Systems was a company that built a mobile robot for logistics operations, mainly for use in warehouses. It was a basically a small platform on wheels, and proved popular throughout the industry.
But then it got bought out by Amazon, which initially said it would still sell it to the rest of the logistics industry but actually didn’t. Instead it rebranded Kiva as Amazon Robotics and turned it into a business unit of its own.
The online retail giant now has one of the largest number of robots in operation of any company in the world.
But two former executives at Kiva Systems – Jerome Dubois and Rylan Hamilton – have now launched a new company and a range of new logistics automation solutions. [Read more…] about Kiva Systems developers launch new company and their own logistics robot
A company called Plenty claims it has attracted the “largest-ever agriculture technology investment”.
The company says the investment will drive its development of its global, large-scale indoor farm network to deliver “radically fresher, affordable food to local communities everywhere”.
Plenty describes itself as a “field-scale indoor farming company remaking the global food system”. [Read more…] about Plenty attracts ‘largest-ever agriculture technology investment’ led by SoftBank to develop indoor farms in city centres
Even for Apple, selling 60 million units of anything would be a big deal. For most small and medium sized companies, just six units might be the start of a wonderful voyage in the world of enterprise.
For Hillcrest Labs, the journey started more than a decade ago, and over that time, the company has reached the milestone of having sold 60 million units.
Having started out selling software, the company moved into bundling that software into chips, which have become more elaborate over time and found an increasing number of applications.
In an exclusive interview with Robotics and Automation News, Chad Lucien, senior vice president of business development at Hillcrest Labs, tells the company’s story. [Read more…] about Smartphones have created a whole new world of opportunities, says Hillcrest Labs boss
The world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing, has decided to extend its use of Dassault Systèmes applications to include more software from the 3DExperience platform for its design, manufacturing operations management, and product lifecycle management.
Boeing will expand its deployment of Dassault Systèmes’ products across its commercial aviation, space and defense programs.
This decision follows a competitive process that included the rigorous analysis of technical and functional capabilities, cost and business benefits across the value chain. [Read more…] about Boeing and Dassault Systèmes extend design and product lifecycle management partnership
