ODENSE, Denmark — OnRobot announced yesterday that its One System Solution has won gold for industrial automation in the LEAP Awards, which recognize the best components and services across mechanical and electrical engineering. The One System Solution provides a unified interface for end-of-arm tooling for collaborative and light industrial robots.

Enrico Krog Iversen, CEO of OnRobot, said he sees the prestigious Gold LEAP Award as recognition from an industry ready to embrace solutions that break down automation barriers.

“With the One System Solution, we just launched a single robotic system that speeds deployment, making it makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for manufacturers to build collaborative applications,” he said.

OnRobot builds EOAT portfolio

On Robot was established in 2015 and merged with Perception Robotics and OptoForce in 2018, followed by an acquisition of Purple Robotics a few months later. In April 2019, OnRobot acquired the intellectual property of Blue Workforce, a Danish company making grippers and a vision system.

Now, the OnRobot product range features a wide assortment of end-of-arm tooling (EOAT), including electric grippers, force/torque sensors, a vacuum gripper, the award-winning Gecko Gripper, and tool changers. The company said its offerings makes it quicker and simpler to automate tasks such as packaging, quality control, materials handling, machine tending, packaging, assembly, and surface finishing.

The company has offices Dallas, Soest (Germany), Barcelona, Warsaw, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Budapest, as well as research facilities in Los Angeles. It said it plans to grow through further acquisitions in the coming years.

One System Solution eases creation of robotics applications

The One System Solution allows OnRobot’s EOATs to work with leading robot brands including Universal Robots, KUKA, FANUC, Doosan, Techman, Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, Hanwha, and Nachi. Integration with more light industrial and cobot brands is coming soon, said the company.

All OnRobot products now have an integrated mechanical and communications interface based on the OnRobot Quick Changer. An additional Dual Quick Changer incorporates these same new capabilities while allowing the use of two tools in one cycle, mixing and matching to suit application needs and maximizing robot utilization.

This frees up manual labor from many “dull, dirty, and dangerous” tasks, allowing workers to put their skills to better use with more value-added tasks, said the company.

About the LEAP Awards

The Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program or LEAP Awards recognize companies in 13 categories with gold, silver, and bronze winners, as well as honorable mentions. OnRobot said its mission to make robotic applications faster and easier to implement resonated with the engineering industry professionals on the LEAP Awards’ judging panel.

Dunkermotoren GmbH won silver in industrial automation for its BG 95 dPro integrated DC servo motor, and Advantech won bronze for “Enabling Data-Driven Asset Management” with its WISE-710 Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) gateway.

Maxim Integrated received an honorable mention for “Driving Intelligence to the Digital Factory Edge” with its Go-IO IIoT reference design, as did Universal Robots for “Built to Do More” with its new UR16e collaborative robot arm.

The LEAP awards are supported by WTWH Media LLC’s Design World, Fluid Power World, and EE World publications. Cleveland-based WTWH also produces Collaborative Robotics Trends, The Robot Report, and the Robotics Summit & Expo.

OnRobot will be recognized at a ceremony on Dec. 9, 2019, in Santa Clara, Calif., in conjunction with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum and DeviceTalks West events.