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Accenture, Mujin form robotics integration joint venture

Robotics Business Review

Accenture and Mujin have created a joint venture to help bring robotics and automation to the manufacturing and logistics industries. The new company will combine Mujin’s industrial robotics expertise with Accenture’s digital engineering and manufacturing service, Industry X. 15, 2024.

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Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid handle automotive struts

Robotics Business Review

Boston Dynamics released a video showing its Atlas humanoid picking and placing automotive struts. Atlas acquires the automotive struts, using its grippers from a vertical storage unit, and places them horizontally onto a flow cart. Agility’s Digit is being tested by Amazon and GXO Logistics.

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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

based Figure AI signed an agreement with BMW Manufacturing to test its 01 humanoid at the car maker’s plant in Spartanburg, S.C. BMW Manufacturing employs 11,000 people at its 8 million-sq.-ft. BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., Sunnyvale, Calif.-based

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Barton Cold-Form Holds UK Manufacturing Licenses for Taptite and MortorQ Super Products

MEM

With over eighty years of history, Barton Cold-Form is a stalwart of the UK fastening industry and one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of bespoke critical fastenings and special cold forging. Now an Optimas Company, Barton supplies over 25 million fasteners a month to manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers in 21 countries.

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Mercedes-Benz testing Apollo humanoid

Robotics Business Review

Credit: Apptronik Apptronik today announced that leading automotive brand Mercedes-Benz is testing its Apollo humanoid robot. As part of the agreement, Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz will collaborate on identifying applications for Apollo in automotive settings. Apollo moving a tote at the Mercedes factory. Why humanoids?

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Automotive Aftermarket Looks to 4Rs and Closed Loop Ecosystem for Sustainable End-of-Life Battery Management

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Electromobility is gaining momentum with improving charging infrastructure, expanding manufacturing capacity, policy support, and purchase incentives. End-of-life business models view value extraction from used batteries through two lenses: one, recycling for material recovery, and two, reuse in automotive and energy storage applications.

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UK auto manufacturers cut CO2 while delivering record EV numbers

SMMT

British automotive manufacturing plants reduce CO 2 emissions by -2.8% Renewable energy generated by manufacturers reaches 46GWh – enough to produce up to 767,000 electric vehicle batteries a year – but wider investment is key to long-term green goals. to deliver lowest carbon footprint on record.