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OnRobot has opened its first office in Germany. With the branch in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, the new General Manager Björn Milsch is expanding the company's presence in the DACH and Benelux markets.
read more...Chuck is a mobile collaborative picking robot from US logistics start-up 6 River Systems. It guides employees through their orders within the picking zones. Artificial intelligence identifies ideal routes and prioritizes the orders.
read more...The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology has developed a technology that makes working with large robots more intuitive. It enables robots to recognize gestures, faces and body postures.
read more...The intelligent parallel gripper Schunk EGI with certified Profinet-IRT interface was specifically designed for demanding and multi-variant handling tasks in electronics, pharmaceutical and laboratory applications.
read more...With the TX2 generation of robots, Stäubli offers six-axis robots that can be used both as standard robots and as cobots. This concept provides flexibility and qualifies the machines for use in the automotive and supplier industry.
read more...Interview with Thomas Suchanek, Yaskawa
Safety plays an important role in robotics in particular. We spoke to Thomas Suchanek from Yaskawa about current trends, safety terms that everyone should know and why safety can also become a risk.
read more...Collaborative assembly needs to be practiced
The University of Bremen has developed a simulation environment for the virtual testing of human-robot collaboration based on a mechatronic system simulation that supports real-time interaction between humans and robots.
read more...With the Gripkit technology, Weiss Robotics offers a universal platform with which smart gripper modules can be seamlessly integrated into robot applications.
read more...Schunk is exhibiting the Co-act EGL-C in Hanover, the first large-stroke gripper developed for collaborative operation. It has gripping forces of up to 450 newtons, a stroke of 42.5 millimetres per finger and is suitable for handling weights of up to 2.25 kilograms.
read more...Training and further education at Rittal
What does digitalization mean for the employees of a company that is converting, networking and digitalizing? For Rittal, one thing is clear: when it comes to machines, it's the people that count, and the company is investing in training and further education measures.
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