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Source: Digitalist Magazine A few years ago, BMW created a new team at an assembly plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Installing sound insulation and water-sealing vehicle doors is not a one-person job. On the new team, one team member spreads out material and glues it to the door. A second team member holds the material in place. What made this team so unique? One team member is human. The other is …Read More
FourByThree will be present at the Machining-Tool Biennial (BIEMH), which will take place in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain), from May 30 to June 4, 2016. This edition will focus on the topic of Industry 4.0 and its impact on the sector. So far, 982 companies are listed as exhibitors. One of our project partners, PILZ, will hold a workshop on safe collaborative robots, with the support of Universal Robots and …Read More
Source: The Robot Report Universal Robots, the Danish manufacturer of a line of collaborative robots (also called “co-bots”), recently published financial statements which provide valuable insights into the growth potential of collaborative robots. At present, sales of collaborative robots represent just 5% of the overall robot market. The collaborative robotics sector, according to multiple pay-for research reports, is expected to increase roughly tenfold between 2015 and 2020, reaching over $1 …Read More
Source: Packaging Digest The anonymous nature of our packaging poll about collaborative robots elicited some interesting feedback such as the news that more than 25% of respondents were either using cobots or would in 2016. Given the on-going politicking surrounding the presidential race in the U.S. these past months, Packaging Digest held a primary of sorts when we released the preliminary results of the first question in our short online …Read More
The European project FourByThree kicks off today, December 1st 2014. It is an alliance made up of 15 European partners who will design, build and test pioneering robotic solutions able to collaborate safely and efficiently with human operators in industrial manufacturing companies. The project, which will last for 36 months, has a total budget of 6.9 million euros and is partly funded by the EU within the European Framework Programme …Read More