They come in all shapes and sizes and they are getting smarter, not to mention more tame and easier to work with. When humans and robots work together on something, safety is obviously of paramount importance. The robot pictured here, developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT , has several sensors which ensure that the robot retreats or is halted when a safety distance is exceeded.
Christian Trapp is an engineer with the automation firm Festo. He and his colleagues have developed a self-learning work-aid robot.
Controlled via eye detection, voice control, remote control, VR glasses and sensors on clothes, the machine learns on the job. Mexico is the first Latin American country to be a partner country of the Hanover Fair.
Heard at the exchange of jerseys was the sentiment that the only wall Mexico needs any time soon will be when they play Germany in the forthcoming World Cup. Using a cloud-based solution, it can isolate harmful corn kernels contaminated with aflatoxins, a naturally occurring fungal toxin that can be highly dangerous if it enters the food chain.
If electric cars are to become a common feature of German roads, the country will need a comprehensive network of efficient charging stations. The industrial company ABB already knows electricity; now it is bringing that expertise to the road.
The charging station pictured behind the car here puts more power in, with greater range and for less charging time than many current alternatives.
E-mobility is nothing new in some quarters. The electric cart has been around for decades, especially as a means of transport in factories. Jungheinrich, a manufacturer of forklift trucks and other warehouse vehicles, has a lot of experience with battery technology because many of these vehicles are electric.
This one can pull as much as 28 tons behind it. The German robot firm Kuka, now under Chinese ownership, is a world market leader thanks to its increasingly intelligent industrial robots. Now the firm is developing robots for the home.
The prototypes, named "I do", can bring you coffee, operate as a games console and even as an air conditioning machine. With so many robots, servers, computers and other digital applications in operation, the possibility of errors grows in proportion. So what kind of issues might crop up when things go wrong in the factory of the future?
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Wrong language? Change it here DW. With an all-purpose design, it is built to work in virtually any market segment, from automotive to foundry to medical — and everything in between. The KMP is an omnidirectional, mobile platform that navigates autonomously and flexibly.
Combined with the latest KUKA Sunrise controller, it provides modular, versatile and above all mobile production concepts for the industry of the future. Different versions, installation positions, reaches and payloads transform the small robot into a precision artist.
KUKA established this special form of solid-state welding as an industrial joining process more than 50 years ago. With the Genius, KUKA is now offering a compact and modular friction welding machine with up to kN of forge force for the flexible implementation of friction welding processes for a broad product range.
This signals the beginning of a new era in industrial, sensitive robotics — and lays the foundations for innovative and sustainable production processes.
Your opinion can help us make it better. We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. The industrial robot maker recently revised down its revenue prediction and its share price has plummeted. In a statement, the DAX-listed company said the head of the supervisory board and Reuter "are discussing the premature termination of Mr. Reuter's Executive Board activities.
No further details were given. Reuter's departure comes nearly two years after Kuka was the subject of a hostile takeover by China's largest home appliances manufacturer Midea, which now holds almost 95 percent of the German firm's shares. At the time of the acquisition, Midea gave assurances about keeping Kuka's German operations intact and made guarantees to maintain existing staff levels until Read more: China takeovers in Germany follow one major pattern: study.
Sources in the company told the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur DPA on condition of anonymity that Midea is now trying to speed up the integration of Kuka into its larger business operations and increase its control over the management. Read more: China's economy not opening up despite Beijing's assurances.
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