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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., Brett Adcock, Figure’s founder and CEO, said the initial tasks include moving bins and boxes and other “various logistics things” inside the BMW body shop. STR is an AMR optimized for intralogistics work in BMW’s automotive factories.

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Chinese automaker to use UBTECH humanoid

Robotics Business Review

Ubtech says its humanoid robots can be used in industrial manufacturing, exhibition halls, warehousing and logistics, commercial office services, home services, and college and research institutions. Walk S is designed for inspection, assembly, and logistics tasks. Walker S humanoid robot The Walker S humanoid is 1.7 m tall (around 5.58

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Murata Manufacturing Presents Solutions to Realize a Safe and Comfortable Car Society at the Automotive Engineering Exposition

i4.0 today

Murata Manufacturing (hereinafter “Murata”) participated in the Automotive Engineering Exposition (Yokohama), Japan’s largest automobile technology exhibition, on May 22, 2024. We unveiled a CO2 adsorption filter at this year’s Automotive Engineering Exposition. The CO2 concentration is steadily decreasing.”

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Ricoh to provide customer support for Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid

Robotics Business Review

The Digit humanoid could work in distribution, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, and third-party logistics. Agility Robotics described Digit as “a multi-purpose, human-centric robot” designed it to work safely in human spaces and help with a variety of repetitive tasks in logistics. The Corvallis, Ore.-based

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Triangle Fastener Corp. To Acquire Pro Fastening Systems

Fastener News Desk

TCF said Pro Fastening Systems fits well with TFC’s long-term plans to grow its business through acquisitions of successful fastener distributors in large markets not currently serviced by TFC. The portfolio company operates precision components and assemblies, mechanical fastening systems, quality tools, and logistics solutions companies.

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30 kg Collaborative Robot Unveiled and Ready for Sale

Gary Mintchell

The automotive and electronics markets are hot, and logistics has become an increasingly good market for cobots. This will be beneficial in, for example, the automotive industry. Why develop a new product? CEO and President Kim Povlsen says the market is good and growing—especially in Asia. The UR30 is a bit of a paradox.

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ABB discusses the evolving role of robotics in healthcare

Robotics Business Review

Some years ago, we already saw that we’ve been leading the revolution of logistics with the Amazons and online commerce. And today, logistics is the largest market for robotics,” he said during a MassRobotics webinar. The challenge in that project was really that the equipment was not fit for automation,” said Collados.

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