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Industrial robot giant Kuka is partnering with two other companies to offer what it describes as a “SmartFactory as a Service”.
The two other companies are insurance giant Munich Re and MHP, which is a process supplier and a subsidiary of Porsche, the automotive company.
Kuka says the “revolutionary co-operation opens the door for new ideas”. [Read more…] about Kuka launches ‘smart factory as a service’ with partners
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have created an aquatic robot which could be used to inspect otherwise inaccessible pipe networks to deal with blockages.
The researchers revealed their findings later this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016) – the world’s largest gathering in robotics, held this year in Stockholm, Sweden.
The study looks at a set of robotic modules that, similar to Lego, can be assembled into robots of arbitrary shape. This allows robots to be customised to meet the changing demands of their task. [Read more…] about Water-based reconfigurable robot could offer new solutions to underground pipe network inspection
