Industry 4.0: Smart robots for smart factories

Editor's Notes

• #5: Oct. 2, 1967: Betty Myrah gets a cup of coffee from Unimate, a 3,500-pound robot on display at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. 48 years ago!!
• #8: “The total worldwide stock of operational industrial robots at the end of 2013 was in the range of 1,332,000 and 1,600,000 units” Número de unidades depende de la vida útil que se atribuye al robot 178.000 robots sold in 2013 The number of multipurpose industrial robots developed by players in the Industry 4.0 supplier segment and used in European manufacturing has almost doubled since 2004
• #14: Advantages: Designed to automate complex, often highly detailed manual manufacturing processes Low purchase price and minimal lifecycle costs Easy to set up and program Capable of being used by workers with a wide range of qualification levels Applicable to multiple types of automation Works collaboratively and in close proximity to human workers Offers a small footprint and is human-scale in size Provide fine motor control and supporting dexterous manipulation Employ machine vision, along with force, touch, position, and tactile sensors May have multiple arms and possibly a humanoid form factor Quick to reconfigure, so as to support quickly changing, low production volumes
• #15: Ease of use: Graphical programming Intuitive control panel “Commoditized” Controller and I/O
• #16: UR5 2009 UR10 2010 UR3 2015
• #18: founded in 2005 by the engineers Esben Østergaard, Kasper Støy, and Kristian Kassow. During joint research at the Syddansk Universitet Odense, they came to the conclusion that the robotics market was dominated by heavy, expensive, and unwieldy robots. As a consequence they developed the idea to make robot technology accessible to small and medium-sized enterprises.[7] In 2009 the first UR5 robots were available on the Danish and German market. Since 2010 the company expands its activities steadily. Meanwhile, the robots are distributed globally. In 2012 the second robot, UR10 was launched.[8] At Automatica 2014 in Munich the company launched a totally revised version of its robots.[5]
• #19: LBR: Leichtbauroboter Iiwa: intelligent industrial work assistant LBR iiwa enables automation in areas where it was previously impossible or not economically viable.
• #20: YuMi: 40.000€, payload 300 gms (per arm) 14 degrees of freedom German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, far right, look at a YuMi robotic arm in Hannover, Germany, on Monday The same week ABB announced the purchase of gomTEC, makers of the Roberta collaborative robot presented at Automatica 2014.
• #21: YuMi: 40.000€, payload 300 gms (per arm) 14 degrees of freedom ABB Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Spiesshofer
• #22: Announced at the Hannover Messe 35Kg payload Green cover also acts as a buffer to trigger stop upon collision Force / torque sensor in base with down to 30N sensitivity. 75.000€ price tag
• #26: Combination of identification sensors and robotic grippers… Skape technologies
• #27: Bladerunner, James Ivory, 1982, depicted Los Angeles in 2019. That is four years from now, and there is no sign of the rebellious “REPLICANTS” portrayed in the film.
• #32: $600 $25.3 million Series A round of funding There will be 4800 JIBO social robots making their way to people’s homes starting in January 2016.  And over a quarter of those are going to developers, building for their own pleasure as well as the JIBO store.
• #33: ICT24.a – Research & Innovation Actions Priority market domains:healthcare, consumer, transportAdvance key technologies for priority domains
• #35: Google went on a spending spree at the end of 2013 start of 2014, and bought up a few robotic and IA companies.