What Knocked Our Socks Off on Day 2 @ Automatica 2022

As we speak was a whirlwind of a day at Automatica 2022. We noticed so many superb new applied sciences and traits on this planet of robotics, from “The Way forward for Espresso Bars” to weightlifting robots.

Listed below are just some of the issues that knocked our socks off on Day 2 of the present.

Collaborative Robotic Welding? Robotics comes full circle

Some years in the past at Robotiq, we had an answer known as Kinetiq Educating. This was an answer that used our Drive-Torque sensing expertise to can help you “drive” your welding robotic by hand.

Effectively… it appears we had been forward of the curve!

Now, there are a bunch of collaborative robotic welding options popping up far and wide.

This answer from Cobot Weldspace even has a demo the place you’ll be able to check out programming the welding robotic for your self. 

Although, do bear in mind {that a} welding robotic will not be inherently protected round folks. It is effective for the programming, however when the welder activates, the folks should be out of the best way

This welding answer is so safety-conscious, it is appears to be inside a nuclear-style bunker!

The Way forward for Espresso Bars… and alcohol bars?

One highly regarded a part of Corridor B5 at this time was this robotic espresso bar as a part of the Kawasaki sales space B5.328.

You could possibly order a espresso from 2 robotic baristas, which might then function the espresso machine. As you typed in your identify, there’s much less likelihood of the robots getting your identify incorrect!

Although the robots nonetheless had a human helper readily available to verify.

There was additionally a human helper for this robotic bartender we noticed.

Effectively… you would not need to go away folks alone with a robotic that might serve you limitless quantities of beer!

A weightlifting robots exhibits off its payload capability

How do you exhibit the payload capability of your robotic. We have seen a few progressive approaches at this time.

This robotic on the Nachi sales space (B5.320) had a hologram, which confirmed a sequence of photographs, together with its payload (you may have to observe the video above to get the total impact).

However this Epson robotic has acquired to be some of the distinctive methods to exhibit payload – it was lifting weights! Effectively, that’s how we people “exhibit our payload” is not it?

That is it for Day 2 at Automatica 2022

All in all, it has been a enjoyable day at Automatica. We have seen some cool functions of robotic expertise. The overall development feels a bit extra “tentative” than earlier years, however persons are nonetheless recovering from the impacts of the pandemic.

We won’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

What are your ideas on Day 2 of Automatica?Have you ever seen any traits that we have missed?

Tell us within the feedback or come and go to our sales space (B4.502) when you’re right here!