Innovative packages are the key in the fight against food loss and wastage. More effective barrier layers, germicidal films and freshness indicators are intended to help products to keep for longer and halt consumers’ throwaway mentality. However, despite all these improvements, companies have to keep a constant eye on process efficiency and on costs. In the developing countries, one child in six is undernourished, which amounts to an absolute figure of 100 million. The United Nations (UN) estimates that undernourishment causes the deaths of 2.6 million children under five years old per y...
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Capital injection of clever money into the Danish robot industry: High-growth robot company MiR receives growth capital from a strong team of private investors Thanks for the offer, but no thanks, was the final answer to several Chinese, European and US investors, who in 2015 became aware of the obvious potential in up-and-coming Danish robot manufacturer Mobile Industrial Robots.Only a year ago, MiR launched its innovative, flexible, mobile robot MiR100, and in step with MiR''''s steep growth where new countries were conquered each month, the company received a growing nu...
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Motion simulation in a new dimension Under the lead of the Tübingen-based Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI), Fraunhofer IPA has co-developed a new cable-driven parallel robot that is the first one capable of transporting humans while at the same time setting new standards in terms of workspace, acceleration and payload for a motion simulator. The scientists have thus succeeded in decisively advancing a technology previously used for automation solutions in the field of intralogistics. To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in product...
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Blue Ocean Robotics announces 3D bin picking system A standard solution based on collaborative robot and proven 3D vision technologyCincinnati, OH - November 11, 2015 - Blue Ocean Robotics announced the release of a standard solution for 3D bin picking of small industrial parts.The Mini-Picker bin picking solution is available with the Universal Robots UR5 collaborative robot. A robot that leads the industry in ROI and ease of deployment and re-deployment as production needs change. The system is well-suited for machine loading of small parts. Automating the loading and unloading of machi...
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North American Robotics Market Sets New Records for First Nine Months of 2015 Robot orders and shipments in North America set new records in the first nine months of 2015, according to Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry''s trade group.A total of 22,427 robots valued at $1.3 billion were ordered from North American companies in the first nine months of 2015, an increase of six percent in units and nine percent in dollars over the same period in 2014, which held the previous record. Robot shipments to North American customers through September totaled 21,436 robots v...
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Shifting Trends Drive Manufacturing Sector Job GrowthThe Association for Advancing Automation (A3) published a white paper entitled "Robots Fuel the Next Wave of U.S. Productivity and Job Growth" in which data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a wide range of manufacturing firms document how and why increasing the use of robots is associated with increased employment.Key statistics from the A3 white paper show that during the non-recessionary periods - 1996-2000, 2002-2007, and 2010-2014 - general employment and robot shipments both increased. Since 2010, the robotics...
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Frankfurt, 30 September 2015 - By 2018 global sales of industrial robots will on average grow year on year by 15 percent - the numbers of units sold will double to around 400,000 units. Five major markets representing 70 percent of the total sales volume: China, Japan, USA, South Korea and Germany. So says the 2015 World Robot Statistics, issued by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). "The main driver of this development is the global competition of industrial production. The automation witnessed by the automotive sector and the electrical/electronics industry comes ...
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Frankfurt, 30 September 2015 -By 2018 global sales of privately used service robots will increase to around 35 million units. At 25 million units, domestic robots (vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, window cleaners etc.) will be right at the top of the future shopping lists of private customers. Estimated sales value - upwards of 12 billion US dollars (2015-2018). Added to that there are around nine million entertainment- and leisure robots with an estimated volume of 7.6 billion US dollars (2015-2018).At the same time service robots for professional use boom. The biggest markets in this segment ar...
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Sales up 56 percentIn 2018 China will account for more than one-third of the industrial robots installed worldwide. At this very moment China is engaged on a historically unprecedented effort to catch-up in the race towards automation. The latest figures show that sales of industrial robots jumped to around 57,000 units in 2014 - a rise of 56 percent. This is according to the 2015 World Robot Statistics, issued by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). The nation's robotics industry is benefiting from an additional boost in the form of the Chinese Government''''s n...
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