News from the market

Franka Emika reportedly wants to offer a robot with a payload of 10 kg in 2020 (photo). I was subsequently informed by the company that a second cobot will be available, but that the exact specification and the date have not yet been fixed.

TQ Systems in Durlach, manufacturer of the Panda, is looking for "conspicuously" large numbers of staff. Interestingly, Franka now has a German-language website for the first time. You just can't win over German SMEs with the English commonly used at university.

Yuanda's first series (60 units) has apparently been sold. Yuanda announces receipt of certification (CE?) on its website for October 2019. Rozum received it in June.

Automata has 3 months delivery time.

The joint project "Opdra" of the companies OMRON and VisCheck will soon equip the first pilot customer in the Swabian Alb.

Parts of the Augsburg-based HLS Group (part of the Kuka Group until 2015) have filed for insolvency under their own responsibility. HLS has recently also positioned itself as an integrator for Universal Robots.

The author of this blog is available for a walk through your production/manufacturing or also for market research(detail), in order to then make concrete suggestions for the use of cobots and other robots incl. funding opportunities. Both SMEs and large companies are visited. Among other things in Bavaria a 50% investment promotion is conceivable.