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A UR cobot performs a spot operation. | Credit: Universal Robots
Rapid Robotics and Universal Robots (UR) simply introduced a brand new partnership. UR, a Danish firm that makes collaborative robots (cobots), will provide Rapid Robotics with collaborative robotic arms in order that it might probably arrange cobot work cells throughout North America. This implies that Rapid Robotics will be capable to serve extra clients and preserve the fast deployment occasions that clients have come to anticipate, at the same time as Rapid Robotics continues to develop throughout the nation.
“As the number of unfilled, critical manufacturing roles increases and global economic uncertainty continues to impact supply chains, more and more North American manufacturers are turning to automation,” mentioned Jordan Kretchmer, CEO and Co-Founder of Rapid Robotics. “This collaboration with UR helps us deploy more cobots, with a wider variety of capabilities, at a faster rate, ultimately helping manufacturers of all shapes and sizes manage and even thrive through the adversity they are facing.”
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Rapid Robotics is built-in with and might use any cobot from the UR product line. This makes it attainable so as to add new features like palletizing, field constructing and packing, and duties that want a heavier payload or longer attain. Rapid Robotics can even be capable to construct work cells and select peripheral tools with extra freedom.
Together, Rapid Robotics and UR additionally pace up cobot deployments in new methods. UR’s two-week ship program is likely one of the quickest within the trade, and Rapid Robotics’ highly effective mixture of state-of-the-art AI, superior imaginative and prescient techniques, and a singular software program stack means robots will be up and working in buyer amenities in a matter of weeks as an alternative of the same old months to years.
“Universal Robots has spent the last decade in North America focused on freeing up more manpower by automating a wide range of human-scale tasks with easy-to-deploy cobots,” says Bryan Bird, Universal Robots’ Regional Sales President. “We’re excited to work with Rapid Robotics in a partnership that will enable us to break down more automation barriers, deploying a robotic workforce to address those jobs manufacturers simply can’t staff.”
In 2022, UR introduced in $326 million, a 5% improve in annual income from 2021 and a 12% development on a continuing foreign money foundation. UR is a part of the robotics division at Teradyne and delivered $85 million in gross sales in This autumn 2022, down from $97 million in This autumn 2021.
A giant change for each new and outdated Rapid Robotics clients is that there are actually extra methods and issues that may be automated. Existing clients who wish to develop their companies or fill open positions for machine operators can automate much more of their traces with UR’s cobots, which have new options. Rapid Robotics’s expanded product line makes automation simpler and quicker to begin for brand new clients than ever earlier than.