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YuMi cobot helps food company automate labeling process

April 5, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

In addition to the integration and programming of a YuMi cobot, moveline also designed a pneumatic/mechanical device with two vacuum suction pads so that YuMi can insert the labels into the holder.

Filed Under: Case Studies, Cobot Arms, Food & Beverage, News Tagged With: ABB

How a Canadian bakery automated its bread packaging line

January 7, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Soft Robotics

A Canadian bakery uses a UR10 cobot and six-finger Soft Robotics mGrip gripper to grab loaves of bread and carry them to a bagging machine.

Filed Under: Case Studies, Cobot Arms, End of Arm Tooling, Food & Beverage, Grippers, News Tagged With: soft robotics, Universal Robots

Piab piSoftgrip 50-2 gripper designed for food automation

December 4, 2020 By Paul Heney Leave a Comment

The vacuum-based soft gripper can hold sensitive and lightweight oblong objects with odd geometries and/or objects with an unusual surface.

Filed Under: End of Arm Tooling, Food & Beverage, Grippers, News Tagged With: piab

Six-packs now within reach of robotic grippers with new Piab vacuum system

October 21, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Six-packs now within reach of robotic grippers with new Piab vacuum system

Grabbing some beer is now possible for packaging and palletizing robots, thanks to a new gripper from Piab. It has designed a vacuum system that can handle six-packs without damaging them.

Filed Under: Design & Development, End of Arm Tooling, Food & Beverage, Grippers, Manufacturing, News, Packaging & Palletizing, Press Release, Vacuum Gripper Tagged With: piab

Schnuck Markets expands deployment of Simbe Robotics’ Tally inventory robot

September 30, 2020 By Eugene Demaitre Leave a Comment

Schnuck Markets expands deployment of Simbe Robotics' Tally inventory robot

Schnuck Markets announced that it will use Tally inventory robots from Simbe Robotics in up to 62 locations in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

Filed Under: AMRs, Food & Beverage, News, Retail / Wholesale Tagged With: grocery, Schnuck Markets, Simbe Robotics

OnRobot Soft Gripper is designed for picking challenges, food handling

April 7, 2020 By Eugene Demaitre Leave a Comment

OnRobot Soft Gripper is designed for picking challenges, food handling

The new OnRobot Soft Gripper is designed to work without an external air supply. The end effector comes in three configurations, is FDA-certified, and works with the One System Solution.

Filed Under: End of Arm Tooling, Food & Beverage, News, Soft Robotics, Vacuum Gripper Tagged With: ABB, Hanwha Precision Machinery, OnRobot

Europe coalition offers cobot support for manufacturing SMEs

March 2, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

A group of research centers, chambers of commerce and knowledge institutes across four European countries is offering to support small and midsize manufacturing companies in integrating collaborative robots into their production processes. The COTEMACO project, a group with members from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K., will offer SMEs within the automotive and food […]

Filed Under: Cobots 101, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, News Tagged With: Europe

Brewing giant Carlsberg uses cobots for safer packaging process

January 8, 2020 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

The Danish division of Carlsberg, one of the leading brewery groups in the world, was looking to improve safety conditions for employees at its factory in Fredericia, Denmark. To do so, Carlsberg adopted two collaborative robots (cobots) from Universal Robots. With the cobots, Carlsberg has significantly improved staff safety and taken steps towards achieving zero […]

Filed Under: Case Studies, Cobot Arms, Food & Beverage, News, Packaging & Palletizing Tagged With: Universal Robots

6 novel applications for collaborative robots

October 4, 2019 By Eugene Demaitre Leave a Comment

The global market for collaborative robots (cobots) will grow from $710 million in 2018 to $12.3 billion in 2025. While much of that growth will continue in automotive, electronics, and other manufacturing, the safety and flexibility collaborative robots will bring robotics to an ever-wider range of users. Here are some unconventional examples of how cobots […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Case Studies, Food & Beverage, News, Pick & Place, Retail / Wholesale, Surgical Systems

RT Corp raises $3.8M for Foodly lunch-packing humanoid

September 1, 2019 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

RT Corp

RT Corp., a Tokyo-based developer of service robots founded in 2005, raised 400 million yen ($3.8 million) in Series B funding for its food-picking collaborative robot Foodly. RT said it will use the funding RT to strengthen its business structure and hire personnel. Foodly is designed to work alongside people in food factories. RT said […]

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, Food & Beverage, Humanoids, Investments, News Tagged With: RT Corp

Mini Finger joins Soft Robotics’ mGrip offering for precise picking

June 23, 2019 By Eugene Demaitre Leave a Comment

Mini Finger joins Soft Robotics' mGrip offering for precise picking

Soft Robotics’ new Mini Finger product joins its modular mGrip line for compliant picking of fragile items in tight spaces.

Filed Under: Cobot Arms, Food & Beverage, Grippers, Packaging & Palletizing Tagged With: soft robotics

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