The new challenge of robotics: take over the handwork manufacturing The Robotic Industry is growing bigger day by day, launching on the market several advanced solutions which promise to revolutionise the way factories produce goods and assembly parts in a near future. As a result, also the expectations of Industry are constantly increasing and they…
How does a robot learn how to perform a task nowadays? Since Henry Ford’s assembly lines, automation systems have been developed and integrated in the industry all over the world. Clear examples of this are Amazon’s automated warehouses or Coca-Cola’s dark sheds. While these examples are stunning, it is also true that nowadays, these robots…
The development of robotic systems and their applications has rapidly increased in recent years. The challenge today is, e.g. that the robot performs different successive subtasks to achieve one or more complicated tasks similar to humans, and at the same time, to have the ability to cooperate with humans safely and efficiently on different levels…
From Manual Work to Automation Imagine a line worker picking and placing parts. This image is not unusual in certain industry fields in Europe. Those jobs are subject to high automation potential. The European Commission projects up to 50% of all jobs to be possibly automated in the future. Now, imagine the line worker to be blind…
Nowadays, productivity is not anymore the only driver for the evolution of manufacturing. Companies pay more attention to the worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, training and education for the employees. Moreover, a set of directives have been issued in Europe considering safety and health at work environment to improve the worker conditions, which in…
