Kuka Robotics is showcasing packaging and palletizing solutions at this year’s Pack Expo event in Las Vegas, US. At the event, the company is exhibiting its robotic solutions, including KR 6 R900 Agilus robots. The company will ...
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On April 19th, JAC World Truck strategy was released in Auto Shanghai, and meanwhile the first model of JAC World Truck-N series announced its global launch into the market. JAC World Truck is China initiative world-class truck strategy ...
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Worldwide robot makers have been expanding their capacity recently with Germany-based Kuka cooperating with the China-based Midea Group to expand its capacity in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Japan-based Yaskawa has also increased investment ...
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China's overseas direct investment is estimated to soar 40 percent to a record $189 billion in 2016 from the previous year, according to a study released by the US consultancy Rhodium Group and Berlin-based Mercatur Institute for China ...
Ford Motor is undertaking a trial at its assembly plant in Cologne, Germany where collaborative robots, also known as co-bots, are being used to help workers fit shock absorbers to Fiesta cars. The robots will ensure perfect fit and ...
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Robot sales in China are set to almost triple by 2018. Data shows annual robot sales in China may jump to 150-thousand by the end of 2018, up from 57-thousand last year. The country is trying to modernize its industrial production and ...
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Modern direct-shift production at the KODA Vrchlabí plant has received an intelligent assistant: An innovative lightweight robot is now aiding employees in the 'gear actuator piston insertion' manufacturing step. This is the first ...
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Over 220,000 visitors attended this year’s Hannover Messe, the largest industrial trade show in the world. Swisslog exhibited with KUKA, presenting its jointly developed Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) concept named ‘Automated ...
China will have more robots operating in its production plants by 2017 than any other country as it cranks up automation of its car and electronics factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Thursday. Already the ...
China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Let's start with the word "robot." The idea behind the word "robot" grows from the ancient concept of the golem. A golem was an artificial person created by people. Frankly, the idea of a golem scared the bejeezus out of the ancients ...
Horst J. Kayser has been appointed the new head of strategy at Siemens, effective November 1, 2013. He succeeds Peter Herweck, who is to make Siemens a leader in the process industry. Janina Kugel, head of human resources at Osram, will ...
In 2012, although the growth rate of global demand for industrial robots has slowed down, the sales volume of robots worldwide set the record the second highest just after that in 2011 and arrived at 159,000 units. In particular, ...
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"With this joint approach, the two companies are strengthening the fundamental idea of integrated production and can, for example, develop new markets by close intermeshing of machine tool tasks and loading tasks," said Kuka Roboter chief ...