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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

BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., Brett Adcock, Figure’s founder and CEO, said the initial tasks include moving bins and boxes and other “various logistics things” inside the BMW body shop. STR is an AMR optimized for intralogistics work in BMW’s automotive factories.

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Forvia increases logistics productivity with fleet of MiR robots

Robotics Automation News

Forvia, an automotive technology company, says it has increased its logistics productivity, strengthened stability of production processes and decreased safety risks with a fleet of robots from Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR).

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Forvia increases logistics productivity with fleet of MiR robots

Robotics Automation News

Forvia, a top-tier automotive technology supplier, says it has increased its logistics productivity, strengthened stability of production processes and decreased safety risks with a fleet of robots robots from Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR).

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How Automotive Robotics is Transforming the Auto Industry

Robotics Automation News

The automotive sector is one of the main industries that has experienced a lot of transformation. Our century is seeing a new change in industrialization where robotics have become the new norm in production and manufacturing. From conducting auto auctions online to make it easier to buy cars from the comfort of your home to […]

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Ont. to provide free training for automotive manufacturing workers

Canadian Manufacturing

million to support two projects to help over 360 people land full-time jobs in the province’s growing automotive manufacturing sector. The first project, managed by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA), will include three-month paid job placements through their network of more than 300 members.

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SSI Schaefer fully acquires DS Automotion

Robotics Automation News

The SSI Schaefer Group, an international provider of modular warehousing and logistics solutions employing some 10,000 people, and DS Automotion, a provider of mobile robotics such as automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots, have signed an agreement under which SSI Schaefer will acquire all shares in DS Automotion.