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Giant robots prepare to fight China biggest buyer of robots Makers of giant robot in the US China is now the world’s largest have challenged their counterparts buyer of robots, overtaking the in Japan to a mechanised duel. US. Sales of robots in China grew MegaBots, a US company, said 54 per cent last year, according it has built a giant robot to fight to the International Federation , another giant robot of Robotics (IFR). The IFR is built by Japanese company forecasting the China market will Suidobashi Heavy Industries. In a grow again in 2015. IFR chairman, good-natured challenge, rocket Arturo Baroncelli, said China is launchers would be filled with “the most dynamic robot market paintball and the whole spectacle in the world”. According to the will be designed for entertainment, IFR, approximately 225,000 robots on television and online. In an were sold worldwide in 2014, an interview with qz.com, MegaBots Two humanoid robots were ‘married’ in Japan, at a ceremony conducted by Pepper the robot increase of 27 per cent from 2013. The bricklaying robot which marks the beginning of a new era in the construction industry founder Gui Cavalcani said: “I All major markets saw growth, definitely need to see this in a with Asia growing the fastest, sport. “We’re children trapped largely because of China, which in engineers’ bodies. We wanted Pepper leads the way bought 56,000 robots in 2014. Robotic bricklayer can video games to come to life.” Rethink raises $40m Gone in sixty seconds Rethink Robotics has raised $40m It took just one minute for by ‘marrying’ robots to expand operations worldwide, build a house in two days Japanese telecom giant and launch its latest robot, Sawyer, SoftBank Corporation to sell which can perform precise tasks 1,000 of its newly launched They make not be as useful around the house “With this emotion function, Pepper’s emotions that robots have not previously been The world’s first bricklaying robot, named industrial revolution, they have tried to automate humanoid Pepper robots when as some people might expect or want them are influenced by people’s facial expressions able to do. Rodney Brooks, who Hadrian, has been unveiled in Australia. the bricklaying process,” Pivac told PerthNow. it went on sale on June to be, but humanoid robots are massively and words, as well as his surroundings, which runs Rethink, said: “So The machine uses a 28 metre articulated robotic “We’re at a technological nexus where a few 20. SoftBank is working popular regardless. The first batch of 1,000 in turn affects Pepper’s words and actions,” far manufacturing robots arm to lay bricks, and works by first eating a 4D different technologies have got to the level where it’s with Hon Hai Precision Pepper robots sold out in one minute, said SoftBank Robotics in a press release. have only been sold in image of the house, then calculates where each now possible to do it, and that’s what we’ve done.” Industry (Foxconn) to according to its makers, SoftBank and Foxconn. “For example, Pepper is at ease when the US … but the Sawyer brick needs to be located, and develops a sequence While Hadrian is claimed to be the first of build the humanoid Pepper’s developer, Aldebaran, claims he is around people he knows, happy when will be a worldwide to lay those bricks, all from a single location. its kind, there are other similar machines that Pepper, which has a it designed the robot to be able to able he is praised, and gets scared when the robot and it will have The man who invented the machine, Mark have been used in construction for some time. price tag of 198,000 to detect emotions. Pepper is said to be lights go down. Depending on the emotion certification for anywhere Pivac of Fastback Robotics, says Hadrian can lay Construction Robotics has two robotic Semi- Japanese yen ($1,600). able to understand facial expressions at the time, Pepper raises his voice or in the world.” Europe has 1,000 bricks an hour. ““People have been laying Automated Masonry (SAM) systems available on a The companies say they plan to and other clues to a person’s mood. sighs, for example. Pepper’s emotions potential but so does Asia – China bricks for about 6,000 years and ever since the limited release basis. SAM works just like a human manufacture and release 1,000 can be seen on the heart display, which in particular, Japan and Korea. He mason, says the company, and can lay bricks and units a month, most likely at the shows different colors and movements. said the original Sawyer robot was mortar. “SAM will actually put mortar on the brick same price. Customers can buy Pepper is happy when he is “Furthermore, a number of robot apps have good at packing and repacking but We’re at a technological instead of on the wall,” says Zak Podkaminer, Pepper, which has 200 related praised, and gets scared when been developed to make life fun with an emotional this is a machine which can do light nexus where a few different operations manager for Construction Robotics. apps available, on SoftBank’s the lights go down.” robot. The ‘Pepper’s Diary’, for example, links assembly. technologies.” “We tested it out in 2013 on a prototype system website. “ Pepper’s emotions with daily family events “ that worked alongside a mason. Then we went Aldebaran that are recorded with pictures and photos.” Japan has most robots Mark Pivac of Fastback Robotics back to the drawing board and made SAM smaller.” Ageing workers spurs growth Japan has the most number of Workers in Japan are getting industrial robots in the world, older, which is leading employers with 60 per cent of the global to turn increasingly to a robot 3D Robotics chief predicts big year total, according to a new report by Arup installs new lab technology workforce, according to the Research in China (RiC). In terms government. Kyuuichiro Sano, Chris Andreson, chief executive of 3D flight,” said Anderson. “It’s not just smarter of sales, the company claims One of the most important labs in the US, uct, which it developed with Tekmatic, earli- a director of a trade ministry Robotics, calculates that more than so that it can do more; it’s smarter so that Japan, the US, Germany, Arup, has installed new track technolo- er this year. At the time, Tekmatic’s president, division, said: “Shortage of labour 500,000 consumer drones were sold that you have to do less. We’ve turned South Korea and China bought a gy in its facility at the University of Utah. Chris Muldowney, said: “We are confident that is a structural problem Japan last year, and 70 per cent of them to his the Hollywood toolkit into software, and combined total of 70 per cent of The organisation is now “one of the most the advanced engineering solutions provid- faces in the long run, given the company’s main competitor, DJI Technology. allowed everyone to experience epic video, the world’s robots. China was the automated laboratories in the United States”, ed by both Tekmatic and MagneMotion will ageing society.” Underlining this Anderson has high hopes for 3D Robotics’ both behind and in front of the camera.” world’s largest buyer in 2013, with according to Dr Charles Hawker, who re- be valuable tools for engineers and scien- view, a recent Bank of Japan new launch, the Solo, quadruple-rotored Solo is claimed to be the first to support full 36,560 units, or 20 per cent of the cently retired after 23 years working at Arup. tists as they pursue new discoveries and in- survey showed large companies consumer drone which is on sale at Best Buy control of GoPro cameras, through which it can global total. RiC had predicted The MagneMover LITE automation creased productivity in laboratory automation.” were planning to boost capital for around $1,000. The company is confident deliver live streaming HD video straight to mobile China to buy 45,000 units in 2014, track system, supplied by MagneMotion, The lab automation market was worth expenditure, which would mean of gaining market share from DJI because, he devices or through the controller’s HDMI port. a figure which differs somewhat will help Arup process the 50,000 sam- $3.5 billion in 2014, according to a re- directly putting money into claims, Solo is the world’s first smart drone. The controller itself can accommodate from other researchers, which put ples it receives every day from patients. port by Markets&Markets, which forecasts robotics and automation systems. “Solo is a breakthrough in intelligent iOS and devices, such as tablets. the number at more than 50,000. MagneMotion first demonstrated its prod- it will grow to more than $5 billion by 2020. 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l all cars are produced in manual and transmission include a nice picture), automatic transmission technology version; and is advancing all the time. l young people prefer to learn to drive manual cars. In 2013, a German company called ZF launched what Adolph surmises that advances in automotive technology it claimed was the world’s first nine-speed automatic mean that the old perceptions about manual gearboxes are transmission, the 9HP (inset picture). The company “not supported by the facts”. claimed the new system offers higher efficiency and lower CO2 emissions than the six-gear autos that are most in use Does a Ferrari have an ‘economy’ mode? today. It also claimed fuel consumption was up to 16 per Whatever the other facts are, the reality is that automatics cent lower than other automatic transmission systems, and are outselling manuals in America. The reasons for this that the nine gears enable small gear steps for more ride are inevitably manifold, but in the modern era, one of the comfort, and due to the high spacing, “the engine always most influential factors could be trends in sports cars, or operates in the ideal speed range”. supercars as they have come to be known. Most average family cars in the US have four, five or The majority of high-performance cars sell for vastly six gears. Trucks, however, can have anywhere between more money than the average road-going vehicle, the price nine and 18 gears, depending on their size mostly. And of which is calculated by auto researcher Kelly Blue Brook while most cars have automatic transmission, most to be around $33,650. trucks are manual, although this is changing as automatic At the above-average end, the price of a Ferrari can be transmission technology becomes more available and as high as $1.7 million. Yes, that’s one point seven million usable for larger vehicles. dollars. A McLaren can be picked up for around $1.3 ZF also has an automatic transmission systems for million, while a Porsche is a bargain at $1.1 million. larger trucks, called the AS Tronic, which features 12 All these are high-end sports car makers, and all of speeds. “It is considered a milestone in drive development them integrate automatic transmission. In fact, very few and has meanwhile become indispensable in modern-day Above: Mercedes has cars in that category feature manual transmission at all. commercial transport,” said Fredrik Staedtler, head of ZF’s launched the F015 And it can’t be just because automatic transmission has commercial vehicle technology division. Luxury in Motion become more fuel-efficient over the years. If someone can The company had sold 1 million units of the AS Tronic, concept car, saying afford to buy a car at those prices, it’s unlikely that they’ll as of March 2015. And the 9HP is selling at a rate of about it has the technology worry too much about saving money on fuel. 400,000 units a year. Among the first customers of the 9HP to produce fully The Ferrari 458 Italia, which was the beginning of the were Fiat, Chrysler, BMW, and Jaguar Land Rover. autonomous end for manual transmission systems in supercars Mercedes, the inventor of the first production car vehicles. Left: the When it comes to supercars, the metaphorical end featuring a combustion engine in the form of the Benz Daimler Freightliner of the road for the manual gearbox was probably Patent Motorwagen, was also the first to break free of Inspiration signposted by Ferrari, which in 2009 launched a the apparent limit of six gears, launching its seven- autonomous truck model – the 458 italia – which did not offer manual speed 7G-Tronic system in 2003. The 7G-Tronic was transmission. From then on, automatic or at least integrated into several Mercedes models, and the semi-automatic transmission became the rule company announced its in-house-developed nine- rather than the exception. speed automatic transmission system in 2013. Lamborghini followed suit a few years later by Cars featuring the 9G-Tronic are just making dispensing with manual transmission altogether their way off the production lines and onto the because, as the company said, no-one cares. roads this year. At the time, Lamborghini’s chief engineer Maurizio Automatic gearboxes have a come a long way since the Reggiani said only five percent of Gallardo orders were for days of the Oldsmobile Hydramatic. Indeed, the whole area The robocar race is on a manual. Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann went of automation of driving actions has come a long way. Such further, saying: “Close to zero percent Gallardos were a long way that cars no longer need to be driven – they can ordered in manual.” drive themselves. From being a hi-tech feature worthy of The reasons for the global shift towards automatic Star Trek, electric windows seem almost a non-event. Autonomous cars ith fully autonomous road-going vehicles on the Automatics are thought to have been outselling manuals transmission could perhaps be summed up in five points: Now, drivers are not only saved the trouble of winding The growing horizon, and many examples already upon us, it’s in the US since the 1950s, with sales taking a dramatic dip l they are easier to drive because the driver does not down their windows, they no longer even have to keep their popularity of Wprobably a good time to take a closer look at the between 1987 and 2003, according to Edmunds.com, an need to manually operate the gearstick and clutch pedal eyes on the road, or their hands on the steering wheel – origins of the automation technology in cars and how it has automotive research company. simultaneously as they speed up or slow down; which isn’t there anyway. Drivers can now, quite literally, vehicles with developed over the years. “The stick shift (gear stick) hasn't yet gone the way of l there’s more of them around and, therefore, more take a back seat. And let the car drive itself. automatic Since their introduction in the late 1930s and early the passenger pigeon and the dodo, but it's definitely an choice for the buyer; transmission is 1940s, cars with automatic transmission have almost wiped endangered species,” says John Adolph at Edmunds. He l less to frustrate you in slow traffic, which requires That annoying backseat driver is you in a few years’ time the evolutionary out manual alternatives in the US. According to several lists what he says are five myths about manual cars. stopping and starting and slowing down and speeding up – Driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles, are here. Some backdrop to the reports over the past couple of years, the percentage of They are: all of which require gear changes, and restarting if the car are already in use, in business sectors where the spaces fully autonomous automatic cars in the US is anywhere between 3 per cent l manual transmission cars are more fuel-efficient stalls, which rarely happens in an automatic; they navigate are privately owned. But on public roads, road vehicles we and 10 per cent. than automatics; l they can provide more power and smoother gear they’re still being tested. are seeing today Automatic transmission was first patented by Alfred l a car with a manual transmission costs less than the changes for non-professional drivers; and Having undergone trials in California, Google’s self- Munro, in 1921, of Canada. The first car to feature the same model with an automatic; l they tend to sell for higher prices on resale market. driving cars have taken to the roads of Texas. The internet technology was the Oldsmobile, a product of the Olds Motor l sports cars, or supercars, use manual transmission Interestingly, unlike in America, most Europeans drive search giant seems to be in a race with the big, heritage Vehicle Company, which was the biggest-selling carmaker because of better performance; manual cars, partly because automatics are, on average, automakers because only last month Daimler debuted its of the early 1900s, selling 425 cars in 1901. a thousand dollars more expensive. But even in Europe, robot truck in Nevada for the first time. Oldsmobile, subsequently acquired by General more and more countries are reporting increasing sales Daimler’s Freightliner Inspiration truck was apparently Motors, launched its first fully automatic transmission The stick shift hasn’t yet gone the way of automatics, and some countries are seeing automatics given the freedom of the roads in Nevada, and a licence. car in 1940, naming it the Hydramatic. And manual cars of the passenger pigeon and dodo, but outnumber manuals in recent annual sales. “This is not a testing licence,” said CEO Wolfgang Bernhard. have been in inexorable decline ever since, only clinging it’s definitely an endangered species” “We believe that these vehicles and systems are ready.” on to a significant market presence because of the “ What do those Europeans know? The 18-wheel heavy-goods vehicle uses long- and perception that they were more economical and could John Adolph Apart from the dubious point about supercars influencing short-range radar, as well as a stereoscopic camera, in achieve better performance. Edmunds the wider market (it may have been just an excuse to its operation, and has already clocked up nearly 20,000 [email protected] www.roboticsandautomationnews.com www.roboticsandautomationnews.com [email protected] 8 News Sensor Readings Sensor Readings Advertise 9

kilometres in the US state. The autonomous truck was first demonstrated in 2014, driving along a closed-off section of the autobahn in Germany. Daimler claims the vehicle is the first autonomous truck on the road anywhere Advertise in Sensor Readings in the world. Navigation of the Inspiration is enabled by what Daimler calls the “Highway Pilot system”, the company’s built-

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Rockwell CEO calls for youth “If the legislative framework for autonomous driving China’s robot revolution ‘Manufacturing needs to teach The world’s most populous nation and reach younger students’ can be created quickly, the launch of the Highway Pilot is now buys the most robots conceivable by the middle of the next decade,” Bernhard said last year. Looks like he didn’t have to wait as long as he expected.

From strength to strength Germany makes progress As well as Google and Daimler, many other companies Japan unveils the Robotics sector grows 11 per ‘world’s strongest robot’ cent in first quarter of 2015

Off side are currently testing driverless car technology. Mercedes, We talk to the people behind RoboDK, the new offline Bosch develops individual components and entire systems BMW, Tesla and all the major carmakers around the progamming tool world. Which will inevitably create vast opportunities for technology companies of all types, and even individuals. Bosch makes progress In software, Google and Stanford programmers with skills in Python to have a go at learning to programme a in autonomous market robotic car through a course being offered on Udacity.

For Bosch, automated connectivity solutions Unpronounceable automation thingy for the people. Ja! Directory Listing 12 issues 24 issues 48 issues driving is not just inside and outside German industrial giant Bosch wants to bring together tech a pipe dream. The the car. experts to develop more powerful computers for driverless Quarter-page advertisement 6 issues 12 issues 24 issues supplier of technology As Hoheisel says: cars, under something it calls the AMALTHEA4public and services is “Bosch develops project. 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Taxi drivers in France £399 £599 Contact us for Hoheisel adds: so again in 2015. “ apparently recognised this and protested recently. “In 2016, our sales in When it comes to We believe Uber, the app which enables users to hail the nearest more details driver assistance will the radar sensors that these cab, has said it wants to buy half a million driverless cars. exceed one billion used in systems vehicles and Forbes reported that Uber chief Travis Kalanick told euros.” As a systems such as ACC adaptive Tesla that he would buy 500,000 of the company’s electric supplier and one of cruise control, Bosch systems are cars if Tesla can meet the deadline of 2020. the world’s largest leads the market ready” Although it sounds more or less like an order, it’s Mechanical data Information automotive suppliers, worldwide. Its uncertain whether Tesla would take up the offer. 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numbers of robots being “employed” in stores and other network. We transport about a quarter of the whole environments where they interact with humans. internet traffic worldwide, anywhere. Pepper is also available for work. Cocoro has launched “These are large, multinational companies that have a service which “dispatches robots to perform simple a global presence and need to connect their offices, routine work such as handing out tissues, working factories, sales points, data centres and so on in order reception or promoting goods for an hourly wage, just like that the company can function as one entity.” with hiring people for part-time work”. The only company that carries more data around the The company says Pepper is capable of image internet, says Rondelli, is Global Crossing, now known recognition, action plans, collision avoidance, voice as Level 3, which carries about 50 per cent. Another recognition and speech synthesis. All of which are cloud company that carries a large amount of internet traffic is robotics AI, served through SoftBank’s massive global Indian company Tata. data infrastructure. For corporate customers the size of Honda, for SoftBank is a multinational telecommunications and example, NTT provides what’s called a managed service, internet services provider, established in 1981, and one which come with realtime monitoring and management of of the largest 100 largest companies in the world by the entire network. market capitalisation. “The network business is in a very interesting stage The company offers cloud services to enterprise at the moment,” said Rondelli. “We have seen the customers, and may have placed itself in a strong rise of cloud business, and applications, and now the position to capture a significant proportion of the cloud network itself has changed as well. It has become more robotics market. flexible and agile.” He added: “Automation is a core driver for every NTT has its head in the cloud company. From the point of view of the person using, for Another company that is well placed to play a leading example, a portal to access services, things seem simple. role in the cloud robotics is Japan’s national carrier, But in the background a huge amount of things have to NTT, which has been preparing for the new wave of happen and have to happen quickly, and all that is only robots for some years. possible through a high level of automation.” The senior robotics expert at NTT Data, Toyoaki Meanwhile, NTT Docomo has signed a deal with Kagaya, said the company was researching ways to General Electric to create an IoT network for industry. approach the technology, with a view to using machine- The network will integrate GE Digital Energy’s MDS Orbit to-machine (M2M) communications networks. router into the infrastructure, and utilise an NTT IoT- Kagaya said: “NTT is continuing its research and enabled embedded communication device for the robots. development of the cloud robotics infrastructure Also, last month NTT teamed up with toymaker Tomy and solutions to provide a to launch a small robot called Ohanas, which they system that is highly beneficial to users, as say can make conversation in a natural manner well as M2M cloud coordination. with human beings. It will be available in “We intend to achieve such October and will be priced at around $150. infrastructures and solutions by equipping Ohanas, short for Organized Human robots with high-speed computation interface and Network Artificial intelligence abilities, large storage, advanced System, is connected to NTT’s cloud functions, and knowledge, robotics architesture for its natural- which cannot be achieved with language dialogue functionality. conventional standalone robots.” Talking and conversing are relatively NTT has developed numerous easy activities for most humans. But I wandered lonely as a robot technologies and partnerships for robots, such complex functionality with other companies in the field is only possible through accessing of M2M networks, also known as extremely large amounts of Cloud robotics epper the robot goes on sale in the US this weekend, developed by cloud robotics artificial intelligence the internet of things (IoT), which information, or big data. The cloud is and the company behind the toy will offer customers company Cocoro, also owned by SoftBank. many believe will be crucial in What’s big data idea? playing an Pcloud robotics connection as an optional extra. The While it’s debatable whether even actual real-life the development of advanced initial purchase price is expected to be around $1,600. It humans understand each other’s emotions and moods, manufacturing processes, or Simply put, big data is extremely increasingly will cost an additional $100 a month for an online service what is perhaps easier to evaluate from a common-sense “smart manufacturing”. large amounts of information. A more important role in plan, which allows access to such things as the cloud perspective is whether the robot is using appropriate NTT has many large, detailed description, which market robotics, with both robotics voice-recognition software. words in its conversations. multinational corporate customers research company Gartner uses, is popular consumer When Pepper went on sale online in Japan last month, In this area, there are already many virtual robots, from the manufacturing sector. “high-volume, high-velocity and high- robots and the entire 1,000 available units were sold out within one or software, being used by large companies around the One of them is Honda, famous for variety information”. industrial robots minute. SoftBank Robotics, which makes Pepper, says the world, mostly for telephone call handling. making road-going vehicles as well For a computer, the amount of data being connected is capable of detecting human emotions In Japan, which is thought to have the world’s largest as Asimo, perhaps the most famous that the average human being generates to ever more and modify the way it communicates to suit human moods. robot population and where there has always been humanoid robot in the world. if engaged in an activity as straightforward as powerful artificial “Like any companion Pepper is a sociable person,” says more acceptance of robots, the virtual robot takes In an interview with conversation is probably too much for even the intelligence SoftBank subsidiary Aldebaran, a French developer of the humanoid form in many instances, with increasing RoboticsandAutomationNews.com, NTT top of the range machines available now. NAO robot, which is in some ways similar to Pepper. Comm’s global director of network services, The average desktop computer has about One of the key components of Pepper is its cloud Ivano Rondelli, said the company’s other 4 gigabytes to about 12 gigabytes of random robotics connection. Being able to call on big data in NTT is continuing its research and customers include Konica Minolta, Bank of access memory, or RAM. The hard disk could be the cloud is what enables the robot to interact, if not development of the cloud robotics America, and many others. up to 4 terabytes. That would be a reasonably understand, sophisticated human qualities, such as infrastructure” “We provide network services for good machine. But it’s nothing compared emotion and language, and communicate and behave “ enterprise customers,” said Rondelli. with the human brain. accordingly. Toyoaki Kagaya “Our core product is the global There are no definite or even widely The big data cloud which serves as the one-metre- senior robotics expert, NTT Data backbone, our MPLS (Multi- agreed figures for how much memory, high Pepper’s “mind”, or its outer-body brain, was protocol Label Switching) random or otherwise, the average [email protected] www.roboticsandautomationnews.com www.roboticsandautomationnews.com [email protected] 12 Features Sensor Readings Sensor Readings Advertise 13 human being possesses, but, writing on the Scientific American website, Professor Paul Reber of Northwestern University suggest that the brain’s memory storage capacity is around 2.5 petabytes. Advertise in Sensor Readings But that’s just storage, not the equivalent of RAM. And the volume of data generated by human beings when they engage in everyday activities – which could be classed as

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Off side Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and many other We talk to the people behind RoboDK, the new offline companies have massive cloud computing facilities. And progamming tool they offer big data platforms for many types of services. However, cloud robotics services – specifically designed for robotics – is a relatively new phenomenon and providers are few and far between, with the majority l robot testing and evaluation; of existing cloud robotics platforms proprietary, and l dual arm manipulator development; well-guarded. l calibration library improvements; and Google, for instance, may be a big supporter of the l ontologies for agile planning in manufacturing. 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Stanford AI Robot STAIR (STanford AI Robot). DPS Not available 6 issues 12 issues The Neurala Intelligence Engine (NIE) is based on A number of industrial robots – including those made research the company conducted for NASA and the US by ABB, Adept, Motoman and Universal – are supported Back-page full-page Not available 3 issues 6 issues Air Force in collaboration with the Boston University by ROS, which is designed to be run on Linux operating Neuromorphics Lab. The projects included developing systems, but can be installed on other platforms. 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Cloud robotics suggest an exciting alternative as it goes about its environment. where robots access and exchange data and code via Massamiliano Versace, CEO and co-founder of wireless networking.” Neurala, says: “We plan to develop practical commercial Goldberg lists what he sees as the five elements of Mechanical data Information applications for both flying robots and ground-based cloud robotics: robots that utilize our deep learning software.” l big data; Directory Listing 40 mm X 50 mm All measurements given in millimetres, width X height. l cloud computing; Some robots are more equal than others l open-source software; Quarter-page advertisement 100 mm X 150 mm No bleed necessary. All artwork to be PDFs. RGB or CMYK. 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Perhaps the reason why OLP solutions in the past have been expensive is because OLP is complex. Unlike the teach pendant method, which tends to concentrate only on one robot at a time, OLP makes a graphical representation of the entire workspace – including the robot and all the machines and instruments connected to the robot. Using an OLP app, an offline programmer can design the system on a computer using a virtual representation of the workspace and a simulation of the robot. Only when the program has been finalised will it need to be installed into the robot and its linked machines, minimising and possibly eliminating any downtime. RoboDK has hundreds of simulated robots in its library, all based on data taken from real-world robots made by all the leading makers, such as ABB, FANUC, Kuka and A screenshot from inside the RoboDK software application Motoman. Any one of these virtual robots can be used in the RoboDK virtual workspace to easily design a system and Main features of RoboDK workflow. Unusually for an industrial application, RoboDK is also available for Mac, Linux and Android, as well as Windows, of Offline programming: Robot accuracy: course. Nubiola claims RoboDK was the first cross-platform Offline programming Certificate robots. application of its type, and says the team intends to keep has never been easier Check the accuracy updating the software to make it available for as many users thanks to RoboDK. of your robots with a on as many platforms as possible. RoboDK is an “active You don’t need to ballbar test. Obtain a project”, he says, and it is being updated and improved with learn brand-specific PDF report describing each project that they become involved in. languages anymore. the accuracy Having been involved in research and industrial robotics RoboDK handles and repeatability for eight years, and having helped develop RoboDK itself, the robot controller of your robots. Nubiola says he finds it surprising to see engineers syntax and outputs RoboDK allows you using Notepad to program their robots in assembler-like the right program to calibrate your programming languages. for your robot. Try a robots and improve “RoboDK is highly customisable and we help our basic Pick and Place production results. customers achieve what they need,” says Nubiola. example. Contact us for more RoboDK is approaching 2,000 downloads since launch information. at the start of the year, and the customers come from a CNC friendly: Use variety of backgrounds. “They can be engineers, integrators, your robot like a CNC. Python powered: maintenance departments, robot programmers, and so on.” Convert CAM files RoboDK is a robot Nubiola says his team saw that maintenance personnel into robot programs, development kit in factories needed ways to validate the ‘health state’ of their your robot can be that allows you to Offline programming for robots robots. The common practice has been to use something used like a 5-axis program any robot called the “ballbar test” to check the accuracy of CNCs. CNC. You can easily from any brand “The ballbar test has been used for CNCs for a long simulate the result through Python. Industrial robots ffline programming (OLP) seems like such a logical people used it a lot,” says Albert Nubiola, founder and CEO time,” says Nubiola. “Now with RoboDK it is possible to with RoboDK and Python is easy to method of managing industrial robots that it’s difficult of RoboDK. “We got a lot of feedback and we used it to build easily make this test to robots.” avoid collisions, robot learn yet powerful RoboDK is a to find a good enough reason to do it any other way. the commercial version, RoboDK. There is no doubt that this “health state” check to robots singularities and joint and flexible. Robot new offline O OLP, mostly in the form of robot simulation software, is a “There is a demand for cheaper and more effective offline can reduce scrap parts. Integrating a robot into a production limits. Download and offline programming programming relatively new development in industrial robotics but it has programming solutions. Current solutions are too specific line may be expensive. However, over the years, buyers have try our robot milling has no limits with application for been gaining popularity over the past few years. and expensive. You often end up using more than one seen an increase in hardware choices and decrease in price. example. RoboDK’s Python API. industrial robots. Previously, the majority of robots were programmed using software, or plugins, to accomplish simple tasks.” Software will likely follow a similar trend. RoboDK believes it Here, in an the teach pendant method. A teach pendant, also known as a Nubiola says RoboDK integrates many features in one is well-positioned to satisfy industry needs. Multiplatform: Extended library: The interview with “teach box”, is a hand-held device often attached to the robot software application – offline-programming; robot milling The download comes with a set of examples RoboDK is the first RoboDK Library has Sensor Readings, which has numerous buttons and a screen with which to from numerical control programming languages such as explained in the Examples section. An online multiplatform robot many robots, external CEO Albert program the robot, usually on-site, requiring the robot to be G-code, or high-level programming languages such as APT; library of more than 200 robots, tools and external offline programming axes and tools from Nubiola says isolated from the production line and not do any work. robot accuracy checks such as ISO 9283 or ballbar testing; axis can be accessed directly from the application. software. It works on different brands. the application This downtime can clearly be costly, even if the robot is robot calibration; and so on. You can also preview or download robots from the Windows, Mac, Linux We are constantly out of action for a few minutes, let alone a few hours or a “The RoboDK API gives you huge freedom to integrate library in the library section. and Android devices. adding new robots gives users ‘huge few days. Offline programming drastically reduces and can everything the way you want, allowing you to simulate almost RoboDK also comes with several examples: It even works on to RoboDK. The freedom’ even eliminate the need to take the robot away from the anything. Also, with the RoboDK API you can program robots Example 1: Pick and place your phone or tablet! library can be directly automated cell and, therefore, is far more cost-effective. using Python programming and run your programs in Simple pick and place simulation. Check the download accessed from our That’s the theory. But in practice, the offline programming realtime, or use one single script to simulate and generate Example 2: Pick and place with Python section. desktop app. l solutions released so far have been prohibitively costly for the robot program.” Pick and place using Python. This example shows how to many companies. use Python to program a robot. Download page: RoboDK, a new simulator for industrial robots, is Example 3: Drawing with a robot http://robodk.com/ aiming to change that. RoboDK is the result of many years’ RoboDK is highly customisable and Simulates a robot drawing an SVG image. This download.php development at École de technologie supérieure (ETS) we help our customers achieve what example shows how to use an external Python library to university in Montreal, Canada. It is the commercial spin- they need” easily draw an SVG image with a robot. off from RoKiSim, an educational simulator for industrial “ Example 4: Robot milling robotics that the university made available for free. Albert Nubiola, CEO, RoboDK Shows how to machine or weld. The example uses an APT “RoKiSim was a basic simulator but we realised that file (CNC program) to make the robot path. l [email protected] www.roboticsandautomationnews.com www.roboticsandautomationnews.com [email protected] 16 Case studies Sensor Readings Sensor Readings Case studies 17 ABB supplies auto parts maker in Wuhan Liaoyuan, China with first robotic painting

ABB met Wuhan Liaoyuan Mould control systems and an ductivity, reliability and quality & Plastics Co., Ltd. in the 1990s -based automatic using the ABB robots. “Robots when Liaoyuan was challenged by production line. are capable of handling compli- some process problems. The first Liaoyuan is a manufacturer of cated profiles. It was difficult to cooperation was started with the plastic auto parts and a quality improve the quality and capacity delivery of an IRB 4400, a flaming supplier to car manufacturers of the parts with manual labor. robot for bumpers. like DPCA. In 2003, to meet the Now, with these agile robots, our With China’s entry into the increasingly fierce competition, coating film thickness is ensured World Trade Organization, Liaoyuan decided to spend with better quality and doubled the manufacturing industry, over one hundred million Yuan capacity, and our costs for a especially automobile, building the first automatic single part has been reduced by motorcycle and household painting line for plastic auto parts 20%,” said Zhou Yu, Equipment appliances, increased its demand in Central China. Manager at Liaoyuan. for industrial robot applications This time ABB provided 6 to meet the dynamic growth and IRB 5400 paint robots, and Facts about Wuhan Liaoyuan fierce competition. Industrial installation and commissioning Located in Wuhan Economic therefore manufacture a variety of Pick&Place, the small robot robots and their automatic for the painting line, which and Technological Development parts,” says Bernd Haller, head of delivers impressive results production equipment play an helped Liaoyuan improve Zone, Liaoyuan is a specialist in Fanuc robot production for CNC machining. SS combined with minimized cycle important role in improving productivity and deliver on time. injection moulding and coating stands for Super Speed – high- times. quality and productivity and Increasing competition of small to large auto parts. The speed milling. At the same time, the KR reducing cost and labor intensity. resulted in increasing demands. company combines development, The VF-2SS has a spindle with a AGILUS family works with great injection moulding, coating and helps reach The focus of the In 2007, Liaoyuan bought 6 more direct drive which generates 12,000 precision, enabling manufacturing industrialization was shifted IRB 5400 paint robots to improve assembly with logistics and rpm. With resonance filtering, path quality of the highest standard. to industrial robot-based capacity even more. focuses on systematic support smoothing that can be set by the Its speed and accuracy make the production equipment and Liaoyuan enhanced its pro- and modularsupply. target at speed operator and an extended program performance of the KR AGILUS memory, the VF-2SS can machine unique in its payload category. The a wide variety of parts due to the product portfolio includes robots KS turns to automation in the milling of aluminum workpieces. short set-up times. with a payload of 6 and 10 kg and Working with the extremely fast and compact KUKA KR AGILUS High speeds aren’t only reaches of 700, 900 and 1100 mm. A important in the milling cell but KR AGILUS is used in the solution Epson Robotics TT8800 robot KS Metallbearbeitung GmbH, in machining center. At EMO 2011 also in the loading and unloading of applied at KS. the Swabian town of Spaichingen, in Hanover they came into contact the machine tool. Therefore, for the The basic equipment of the has taken a bold step towards with Dreher AG, trade partner robot cell the decision was made in DR-1 cell includes an industrial automation: a decision well worth of the American machine tool favor of the new KUKA KR AGILUS robot with gripper system and a installed in automotive workcell taking. That’s because using manufacturer Haas Automation 6-axis jointed-arm robot. clamping fixture. Dreher supervised automated solutions in the form of Inc. and system partner of KUKA A conveyor belt transports the all components in this project: the industrial robots and machine tools Roboter GmbH from Augsburg. workpieces into the robot cell. After robot interface to the zero point has a clear competitive advantage. Once reservations regarding the that, the KUKA KR AGILUS collects clamping system, programming Inspection/ Problem based in Burton, MI, designed and built a workcell that KS Metallbearbeitung GmbH operation of the robot cell had been the workpieces from the selected of the KUKA robot and the Haas Packaging A Tier 1 automotive supplier wanted to prevent the automated the handling and inspection routines. The specializes in the machining dispelled, and the use of a variety position and temporarily stores machine. Application shipment of defective parts to their customers. Traditional workcell is equipped with an EPSON TT8800 robot and a of aluminum. Their technical of different parts was guaranteed, them on a special fixture in the cell. “At first glance, an automated methods had operators inspecting parts; separating known simple pneumatic gripper. expertise is predominantly in the Dreher AG devised a complete The configuration has been system appears to be an expensive good parts from known defective parts. The robot picks up a connector from an incoming machining of aluminum profiles – machine and automated robot cell programmed and saved on the matter. The combination of Dreher This manual method made it possible for operators to conveyor and loads it into a blanking press. After blanking, from sawing and CNC machining solution. separate user interface in advance. robot cell and Haas machine tool is accidentally include defective parts in shipments to the the part is transferred to a station that performs an to vibratory finishing. After visiting the 2012 in-house The robot grips the workpieces, a high-performance and therefore customer. Engineers concluded that an automated inspect electrical test. Next the part is moved to an automated KS was founded in 1983 by trade fair on Dreher’s premises, which are now aligned to the zero cost-effective solution with low and pack-out cell would significantly reduce the possibility vision inspection station that checks for flaws created Kurt Schuhmacher. He is still the the decision was made in favor of point, and loads them into the amortization times. of defective connectors being shipped to their customer. during the injection molding process. managing director of this company, an automated solution with a Haas VF-2SS. The machine carries out “All those who calculate After visual inspection the robot makes the connector which has its headquarters in VF-2SS. the drilling and milling work. The correctly know that automated Solution with a date and shift code for manufacturing traceability. Spaichingen, in the rural district “The automated solution from robot removes the workpieces after solutions mean an initially high- Flexible Automation, an automation equipment builder The final step is packout. Good parts are loaded into of Tuttlingen. The company the DR-1B robot cell and Haas machining and feeds them through cost investment, but the hourly a shipping container and defective parts placed in reject supplies businesses from diverse VF-2SS fulfills our requirements a chute into a receptacle installed rates of automated machining are chutes, segregated by their test results. As a result of the sectors, such as window and completely. Fully-automated outside of the cell. only a third of those for manual significant benefits achieved from the first workstation, the facade technology, mechanical manufacture means we can operation. Tier 1 supplier ordered 5 more identical stations. engineering and the electronics produce higher quantities, 24 hours The KUKA KR AGILUS: “This means that automated industry, each of which has its own a day, 7 days a week. In addition, the a master of speed solutions are internationally Benefits special requirements. connected VF-2SS milling machine The KUKA KR AGILUS is competitive and the production l Higher production yields as a result of consistent A complete and convincing accomplishes the required drilling characterized by short cycle times will stay here in Germany and not handling times solution consisting of machine and and milling work at high speed. At and a high degree of precision be relocated to Eastern Europe,” l Reduced number of shipments containing defective parts automated robot cell KS was on the same time, we remain flexible and reliability. When it comes explained Martin Dreher, director of l Increased end user satisfaction because they only the lookout for a new, high-speed due to the low set-up times and can to handling tasks, especially Dreher AG. received parts that were ready for use [email protected] www.roboticsandautomationnews.com www.roboticsandautomationnews.com [email protected] 18 Promotion Sensor Readings Sensor Readings Marketplace 19 Advertise in Sensor Readings Marketplace

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