test center, which will be built up in the robot valley’s premises at Expectum in Västerås, sweden, is a collaboration between, inter alia, ABB, Robotdalen, and Mälardalen university. The project is funded by Vinnova and participating partners.
– Robots that cooperate with people, so-called collaborative robots, will in the future become a very important component to strengthen corporate competitiveness. This type of robots opens up a whole new uses and applications that were previously not possible to automate, ” says Klas Larsson, communications manager for the Robotdalen, in a press release.
– Experience says that the market launch of new and groundbreaking technology often takes a long time due to the processes and methods missing, both technically as well as commercially. The end users, i.e. industrial firms, see the potential, but lack the knowledge of whether their needs and the applications you can solve with cooperative robots.
Robert Larsson, head of ABB Discrete Automation and Motion in Sweden, said:
– All innovation is based on close cooperation between customers and suppliers, and it applies, in particular, within the digitalization and automation where development is so fast now. Now will the 'collaborative robotics', and there is probably an equally large opportunity for improving competitiveness as the introduction of robots was for a dozen of years ago
With all of Sweden as the catchment area will the testing centre to carry out the concept and application development to show how different problems can automate with the help of cooperating robots. Some of the first assignments will be done in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, Astra Zeneca and Volvo, writes ABB in the press release.
– A typical cooperating robot that can be mentioned in this context, and that will be used on the test center, is ABB’s YuMi robot. It is a dual-arm industrial robot with a use which the person (and the operator) and the robot can sit side by side and work in a production line, ” says Robert Larsson, and continues:
– This new industriautomationstrend, with robots that is easier to work with the man, it means a closer interaction between human and robot. It also means that the robot system does not need to surrounded by a traditional säkerhetsbur, so that it often looks like today, in various automated production lines.
the robot valley is an inventors ‘ workshop, which is funded by Vinnova, the European regional development fund and the academy of finland, the public sector and industry in Sörmland, Västmanland and Örebro county.
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