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New Mitsubishi Electric Robot Handles Larger Payloads with Longer Reach

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Mitsubishi Electric has launched the MELFA RV-12CRL vertical articulated robot, which offers 1,504 mm reach and 12 kg payload capacity. The robot’s wide effective working area makes it suitable for a variety of processes and industries, including food & beverage, automotive, lithium-ion battery manufacturing, logistics and warehousing.

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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.

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Veteran tech exec Peggy Johnson named Agility Robotics CEO

Robotics Business Review

Agility Robotics kicked off the week by naming Peggy Johnson its chief executive officer. Agility Robotics co-founder Damion Shelton has served as CEO since the company’s founding in 2015. . With Peggy at the helm, Agility can bring robotics to new heights.” The humanoid race is continuing to heat up. This is Agility’s time.”

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FANUC America nearly doubles Michigan campus to accommodate automation demand

Design World

FANUC America , a supplier of CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs, announces a West Campus expansion that will push its operational space in Oakland County, Michigan, to nearly two million square feet. Cooley Law School Campus, which will provide future growth in the education of the next generation of robotics and automation workers.

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R?BEX adds new board member to accelerate growth in robotics and automation

Automation Mag

RōBEX, a robotic material handling integrator, welcomed robotics and automation executive Craig Ulrich to its board of directors. The appointment, made by Angeles Equity Partners, is the latest step to support the company’s strategic plan to accelerate growth in the industrial automation and robotics sector.

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IFR says harnessing AI in robotics can make work better

Robotics Business Review

We’re in the midst of a decade of unprecedented transformation, driven in part by the global pandemic and geopolitical events that are fundamentally changing the way we manufacture and deliver goods, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. AI itself is not new to robotics. It is rapidly changing what is possible.

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Accenture invests in humanoid maker Sanctuary AI

Robotics Business Review

Accenture Ventures announced a strategic investment in Sanctuary AI , one of the companies developing humanoid robots. The Robot Report reached out to Sanctuary to learn more about the investment but hadn’t heard back at press time. Agility Robotics has piloted its Digit humanoid with Amazon and GXO Logistics.

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