What's Your Automation Style: Brainy, Brawny Or Tiny?
What’s Your Automation Style: Brainy, Brawny or Tiny?
In July this year, Changying Precision Technology Company, a manufacturer of cellphone modules, set up the first fully-automated factory at Dongguan, China. Any time during the day or night, you can see 60 robot arms at 10 production lines polishing the modules, a job that required 650 workers in the past. According to reports, 90 per cent of the factory’s workforce comprises robots, with just a few human workers to monitor the machinery.
Elsewhere in the world, Ports of Auckland plans to replace 50 jobs with Autostrads, which are 15m tall, automated straddle carriers. These container-stacking robots can stack up to four containers high and would result in a 30 per cent increase in container …show more content…
While the size has shrunk, their importance has increased manifold, especially at NCATS, which is a heavily-automated research lab that runs high-throughput screening of compounds. It recently hit the news as Yale University researchers used the NCATS facility to discover that a drug, originally meant for cancer, could restore memory and reverse cognitive problems in mice with Alzheimer’s type …show more content…
This particular helper is capable of handling 35kg payloads, which according to the company is an industry-first. A soft green foam cover helps protect humans working around the robot, which reportedly meets ISO 10218-1:2011 robotic safety requirements and is designed to work alongside humans in operations such as machine tending, handling heavy payloads that require lift-assist devices or custom equipment, higher payload mechanical assembly, palletising or packing, and tote or carton handling.
Another recent example is Fetch Robotics’ team of vision-guided robots, Fetch and Freight. Freight is a mobile base, while Fetch is an advanced mobile manipulator. The duo is designed to work alongside humans in warehouse environments, performing tasks like warehouse delivery and pick-and-pack operations. Interestingly, the robots are built upon the open-source robot operating system (ROS).
In addition to a range of sensors, grippers, and so on, which help them do their job, the two robots are also fitted with components that help them navigate automatically and work safely with humans. In Fetch's base, there is a charging dock, 25m range laser scanner for navigation and an obstacle-avoidance laser from German company SICK. Freight also features a 25m range 2D laser scanner used to detect workers and follow them at speeds of up to 2m/s.
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In July this year, Changying Precision Technology Company, a manufacturer of cellphone modules, set up the first fully-automated factory at Dongguan, China. Any time during the day or night, you can see 60 robot arms at 10 production lines polishing the modules, a job that required 650 workers in the past. According to reports, 90 per cent of the factory’s workforce comprises robots, with just a few human workers to monitor the machinery.
Elsewhere in the world, Ports of Auckland plans to replace 50 jobs with Autostrads, which are 15m tall, automated straddle carriers. These container-stacking robots can stack up to four containers high and would result in a 30 per cent increase in container …show more content…
While the size has shrunk, their importance has increased manifold, especially at NCATS, which is a heavily-automated research lab that runs high-throughput screening of compounds. It recently hit the news as Yale University researchers used the NCATS facility to discover that a drug, originally meant for cancer, could restore memory and reverse cognitive problems in mice with Alzheimer’s type …show more content…
This particular helper is capable of handling 35kg payloads, which according to the company is an industry-first. A soft green foam cover helps protect humans working around the robot, which reportedly meets ISO 10218-1:2011 robotic safety requirements and is designed to work alongside humans in operations such as machine tending, handling heavy payloads that require lift-assist devices or custom equipment, higher payload mechanical assembly, palletising or packing, and tote or carton handling.
Another recent example is Fetch Robotics’ team of vision-guided robots, Fetch and Freight. Freight is a mobile base, while Fetch is an advanced mobile manipulator. The duo is designed to work alongside humans in warehouse environments, performing tasks like warehouse delivery and pick-and-pack operations. Interestingly, the robots are built upon the open-source robot operating system (ROS).
In addition to a range of sensors, grippers, and so on, which help them do their job, the two robots are also fitted with components that help them navigate automatically and work safely with humans. In Fetch's base, there is a charging dock, 25m range laser scanner for navigation and an obstacle-avoidance laser from German company SICK. Freight also features a 25m range 2D laser scanner used to detect workers and follow them at speeds of up to 2m/s.
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