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MATERIAL HANDLING

MOVE 11,000 POUNDS AUTOMATICALLY OR MANUALLY VIA A DRIVER

The EZS 350a NA automated guided vehicle (AGV) from Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany) adds precision navigation technology to the company’s standard electric truck to provide transport automatically or manually in mixed operations with manual trucks and pedestrians.

SMALL-PAYLOAD COBOT PROVIDES INDUSTRIAL SPEED AND COBOT SAFETY

The 6-axis Racer-5 Cobot from Comau (Turin, Italy) combines flexibility and collaborative safety features with high repeatability and accuracy.

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT TUGGER TOWS 15,000 POUNDS

The Max N15 from AutoGuide Mobile Robots (North Reading, MA) is a modular autonomous mobile robot (AMR) tugger capable of transporting up to 15,000 pounds.

AGV/AMR MAKES MOVING LOADS A NO-BRAINER

Three models of autonomous vehicles – the K03 Twister, K50 pallet truck and K55 pallet stacker – from Kivnon (Barcelona, Spain) circulate around their environment using magnetic guidance or simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology.

FULLY AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING WITH ‘ONE SYSTEM FITS ALL’ MODULE AND COBOT-ARMED GATES

While autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) transform increase efficiency and reduce employee injuries, their benefits are only maximized with top modules and gates that transfer the materials.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTION LOWERS MATERIAL HANDLING TIME AND ERRORS

Wi-Fi instability is a common workplace challenge. In material-hendling applications with devices communicating through complicated setups passing data between autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), third-party receiving stations and conveyors, intermittent Wi-Fi can cause errors and downtime.

MOBILE COBOT AUTOMATICALLY MOVES FROM STATION TO STATION TO AUTOMATICALLY PERFORM TASKS

An autonomous mobile robot (AMR) equipped with a 6-axis TX2 cobot arm with CS9 controller and variable assembly language (VAL) 3, the HelMo from Staubli Corp. (Duncan, SC) fetches tools from a magazine and loads and unloads machine tools without human intervention.