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Mobile Industrial Robots to supply AMRs to Faurecia

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Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), the industry first mover and market leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), has announced a global strategic collaboration with one of the world’s leading companies within automotive technology, Faurecia, to deploy AMRs in its manufacturing plants worldwide.

Faurecia has investigated and tested different solutions for automating its in-house transportation for years in order to optimise productivity and internal workflows.

The company has now partnered with MiR to rethink the internal logistics in its production sites globally and make their logistics processes more efficient using autonomous mobile robots.

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New study: Mobile robots in logistics centres to exceed $3 billion in 2022

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Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) used in logistics applications are forecast to enjoy massive growth in the next five years and grow ten-fold to exceed $3bn in 2022, according to a new report from Interact Analysis.

Despite the market being worth just $300m in 2017, the report forecasts that more than 400,000 mobile robots will be installed by the end of 2022.

Whilst AGVs have long been used in manufacturing environments to lower costs and improve efficiencies, logistics and fulfilment centers are a relatively new opportunity.

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Panasonic develops 3D lidar sensor for autonomous mobile robots

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Panasonic has developed a 3D lidar – light detection and radar – sensor that it says accurately measures the direction of and distance to objects with a wide angle of view, which is critical for autonomous operation of mobile robots.

Employing Panasonic’s propriety laser-scanning technology, the 3D lidar is capable of scanning the laser as wide as up to 60 degrees vertically and 270 degrees horizontally to achieve stable operation of autonomous robots.

Sample shipments will start in January 2018, and Panasonic will exhibit the 3D lidar at Ceatec Japan event, from October 3 to 6, 2017.  [Read more…] about Panasonic develops 3D lidar sensor for autonomous mobile robots