
Schaeffler at the Hanover Fair
Sustainability for robotics and beyond
Among other things, Schaeffler will be presenting its new food program in Hanover. The company sees "sustainable engineering" as a lever for saving energy and raw materials.

Schaeffler at the Hanover Fair
Among other things, Schaeffler will be presenting its new food program in Hanover. The company sees "sustainable engineering" as a lever for saving energy and raw materials.

Fruitcore Robotics will in future be equipping its robots with four individually selectable software options. The flexible offer replaces the previous all-inclusive price for robots and software.

After strong growth in 2021, Kuka plans to invest 800 million euros in research and development by 2025. The new iiQKA robot operating system is already being used by the first companies.
Based on its experience in the construction of deburring robot cells, Kadia developed advanced solutions for general machining processes such as milling, drilling and thread cutting.

Japan is the world's largest manufacturer of industrial robots: 45% of the global supply comes from Nippon.

To optimize robot applications, teach points are readjusted manually. Robot operation must be interrupted for this. ArtiMinds now offers a solution for fully automatic optimization.
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK are researching the potential of cloud technologies for industrial robotics together with the Technical University of Berlin.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a significant increase in the need to convert passenger aircraft into cargo planes. The Zimmer Group is on board for this technically challenging undertaking.

The start-up was founded as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart and offers a manufacturer-independent robot operating system.
In five minutes, the new portal configurator from Igus can be used to configure and program a portal robot online, carry out functional tests in augmented reality and download CAD data.

From customer project to robotics lab
In order for robots to operate as efficiently and precisely as possible in production, many adjustments need to be made. The Fraunhofer Institute for Engineering Design IEM is researching these on behalf of its customers.


IAI Industrieroboter, the specialist for pneumatic electric automation, is opening a new showroom in Schwalbach am Taunus on November 10.

Used batteries from electric cars contain valuable raw materials that can still be used. To be able to recycle them, a research team from the Center for Digitized Battery Cell Production (ZDB) at Fraunhofer IPA is developing a robot cell with a wide variety of tools.

The number of industrial robots in factories worldwide has risen by 10 percent to a new record of around 3 million units - as reported by the International Federation of Robotics in the new "World Robotics 2021" yearbook.

Toolify Robotics has developed the manufacturer-independent Xito platform for robot components.

Since June 2021, visitors to the Märklineum have been going on a journey through time through over 160 years of Märklin's fascinating company history.

Highly flexible cables and hoses ensure that robot applications are supplied with energy, data and media.

Production at Italian automotive supplier PMC is fully automated. More than 100 robots from Kuka, mainly from the KR-Quantec family, ensure smooth and reliable parts production in modular cells.

Visitors to the Fanuc stand at EMO were able to see, among other things, how CNC machine tools, various robots and software solutions interact.