Robotics

IDTechEx spoke to Glen Cahill, the director of Remix Robotics at the event Robotics & Automation 2021. Remix Robotics is a small start-up with only seven employees, founded in July, 2018. They are an automation design agency and integrator that builds customised robotic systems. They also have services of training, maintenance, and scaling the existing automation systems.

IDTechEx spoke to Jose Luis Lopez Garcia, Business Development Manager at Cassioli at Robotics & Automation 2021. Cassioli is a material handling equipment manufacturer and integrator, based in Torrita di Siena, Italy. They employ about 500 people worldwide. Their active regions are Europe, Japan and Brazil. Cassioli has diverse products that can cover every procedure (e.g. picking, sorting, transporting) in the material handling operations.

IDTechEx spoke to James Hart, Business Development Manager, EMEA at Lucas Systems. They are headquartered in the US, but now have a regional office in Bracknell, the UK for the EMEA market. 99 employees now work for this company, generating an averaging annual turnover of about 15-20 million USD. In the event they were presenting only videos that introduced functions and interfaces of their software.

CKF systems is an integrator of warehousing automation solutions, specialising in robotic picking, layer palletising and conveyors. They employ about 30-35 people, and now are headquartered in Quedgeley, Gloucester, the UK. Their targeted regions are the UK, Europe, north America and east Asia.

IDTechEx briefly spoke to Brillopak at the event Robotics and Automation 2021. BrilloPAK is a British manufacturer of automated packing and palletising systems. The company now employs about 20 people, based in Tonbridge, Kent, and is active primely in the UK and Europe market. They sell their products mainly to end-users but also integrators. Morrisons, the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the UK, is one of their biggest customers and end-users.

IDTechEx spoke to Ross Lacy, mobile robot product manager at RARUK automation. They employ about 30 people, generating an average annual turnover of 15-20 million USD in recent years. RARUK is a robotic solution distributor for many types of robotics products, but the primary ones are collaborative robots from Universal Robots, mobile robots from Mobile Industrial Robot (MiR), and robots and components from Robotiq.

IDTechEx spoke to Mark Turner, AI, IOT, Edge & Embedded Computing Sales Director, UK & Ireland at ADLINK. They are a computer manufacturer, making industrial computing systems to open standards such as PICMG, COM Express, or ROS. They were displaying various industrial computing systems, including robotic control and vision systems.

IDTechEx briefly spoke to Piab at their booth at Robotics & Automation 2021. They are a leader in robotic end effectors, with original speciality in suction cups and vacuum pickers, but more recent expansion into gripping and palletising systems.

Sick AG (SICK) are a global manufacturer of sensors and related solutions for industrial applications. They were demonstrating their robotic systems at the Robotics & Automation 2021 event, where IDTechEx visited their booth.

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IDTechEx spoke to Fernando Daniel Pazos, Applications Design Engineer at Schneider Electric at their booth at Robotics & Automation 2021. They were primarily demonstrating their industrial PLC and motion controller units at the event.

IDTechEx spoke to Sean Wood, Sales Director UK & Ireland for Clearview Imaging at their booth at Robotics & Automation 2021. They are a machine vision systems distributor based in Thame, UK, and demonstrated various industrial vision systems at their booth.

Anronaut was formed in 2002, specialising in automating forklifts for high-racking material handling in very narrow aisles (VNAs). The company is small-sized with only three employees, focusing on designing and building autonomous transport systems with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for other companies. So far they have accomplished over 30 projects, mostly in Europe and a few in the USA.

Although novel ergonomic interventions such as industrial exoskeletons have shown promise in reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries, new research finds that the cognitive fit (where the wearer has ample mental resources available to accurately operate the exoskeleton while conducting their daily work tasks) of such wearable robotic solutions in the workplace may impose newer risks on workers.

In October 2021 Hamburg played host to the ITS World Congress which focusses on the future of urban mobility and showcases technologies for autonomous and connected transportation. In total there were over 210 talks and panel discussions. This premium article covers some of the key ones that IDTechEx attended.

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In October 2021 Hamburg played host to the ITS World Congress which focusses on the future of urban mobility and showcases technologies for autonomous and connected transportation. The congress offered 27 demonstrations of some of the latest technologies and pilots. IDTechEx used this as an opportunity to get some hands on experience with the topics we write about.

Swiss start-up, one of the most well funded agricultural robotics companies