The future is here. Today’s industry is profoundly marked by the advance of robotics and the world’s major economic powers are in an intense rush to integrate robots into as many branches of their industries as possible.
It is quite obvious why this is happening: automation offers huge advantages. It allows manufacturers to keep their operations running at optimum levels without sacrificing cost efficiency. More and more of them understand this and are looking to equip themselves with the right industrial robots for their industry.
According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) as reported by economica.net , the current level is “113 units per 10,000 workers globally”, with much higher figures in the highly industrialised countries of Asia, Europe and North America.
Romania has a density of 21 robots per 10,000 workers, with the highest growth – 17% per year between 2013 and 2018 – driven mainly by the automotive industry, with signs of growth in the food industry as well.
Different types of industrial robots
As for the range of industrial robots, this too is constantly expanding: from traditional caged robots capable of handling payloads quickly and accurately, to collaborative robots designed to be able to operate safely alongside human operators.
MiR robots
In 2011, Neils Jul Jacobsen created the first example in Denmark of what would become MiR – Mobile Industrial Robots – a robot designed to support industrial logistics or intra-logistics.
Specifically, Jacobsen has pioneered a new collaborative industrial robot concept called AMR – Autonomous Mobile Robots – capable of being integrated into any type of factory to transport items from point A to point B.
What makes this type of robot so useful is its ability to do these transport operations autonomously, moving with the help of a navigation program that helps it to avoid obstacles and act in a coordinated way with other active robots.
When idle, these robots can be programmed to “park” and recharge, and can perform complex operations such as moving around different levels of a building.
MiR industrial robots are easy to program and configure for different tasks using software with an intuitive interface and interchangeable top modules.
Agilox industrial robots and swarm technology
Agilox – one of the leading players in the AMR industrial robot market – aims to end the AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles) era and usher in the IGV (Intelligent Guided Vehicles) era.
Agilox’s vision is based on the integration of swarm technology into intra-logistics, which means doing away with a centralised control system. Agilox robots communicate with each other, the environment and various other systems in the working environment.
Agilox advantages include a unique propulsion system and increased mobility. When the situation demands it, the Agilox robot can rotate and move in parallel and can squeeze into tight spaces.
New opportunities for Intra-logistics in Romania
In light of this overview of the world of industrial robots in general and MiR robots in particular, we are convinced that the industrial automation field in Romania will have an upward trend in the coming years.
As Agilox distributors and integrators in Romania, Ai Automation Initiative comes to the Romanian industry with an approach focused on quality of service and customer needs. All to provide smart solutions for businesses to maximize their productivity and minimize their costs.
For details about the integration of AMR, AGV, IGV (MiR, Agilox, etc) robots into production systems, you can contact us at contact@aiautomation.ro or tel. +40726198185.