A UR cobot performs a spot operation. | Credit score: Common Robots
Rapid Robotics and Universal Robots (UR) simply introduced a brand new partnership. UR, a Danish firm that makes collaborative robots (cobots), will provide Speedy Robotics with collaborative robotic arms in order that it could possibly arrange cobot work cells throughout North America. Because of this Speedy Robotics will be capable to serve extra clients and maintain the short deployment occasions that clients have come to count on, at the same time as Speedy Robotics continues to develop throughout the nation.
“Because the variety of unfilled, essential manufacturing roles will increase and world financial uncertainty continues to impression provide chains, an increasing number of North American producers are turning to automation,” mentioned Jordan Kretchmer, CEO and Co-Founding father of Speedy Robotics. “This collaboration with UR helps us deploy extra cobots, with a greater variety of capabilities, at a sooner price, in the end serving to producers of all sizes and shapes handle and even thrive via the adversity they’re dealing with.”
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Speedy Robotics is built-in with and might use any cobot from the UR product line. This makes it doable so as to add new capabilities like palletizing, field constructing and packing, and duties that want a heavier payload or longer attain. Speedy Robotics will even be capable to construct work cells and select peripheral tools with extra freedom.
Collectively, Speedy Robotics and UR additionally velocity up cobot deployments in new methods. UR’s two-week ship program is among the quickest within the trade, and Speedy Robotics’ highly effective mixture of state-of-the-art AI, superior imaginative and prescient methods, and a novel software program stack means robots could be up and working in buyer amenities in a matter of weeks as a substitute of the same old months to years.
“Common Robots has spent the final decade in North America centered on releasing up extra manpower by automating a variety of human-scale duties with easy-to-deploy cobots,” says Bryan Chook, Common Robots’ Regional Gross sales President. “We’re excited to work with Speedy Robotics in a partnership that can allow us to interrupt down extra automation obstacles, deploying a robotic workforce to handle these jobs producers merely can’t employees.”
In 2022, UR introduced in $326 million, a 5% improve in annual income from 2021 and a 12% progress on a continuing forex foundation. UR is a part of the robotics division at Teradyne and delivered $85 million in gross sales in This fall 2022, down from $97 million in This fall 2021.
An enormous change for each new and previous Speedy Robotics clients is that there are actually extra methods and issues that may be automated. Present clients who need 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. Speedy Robotics’s expanded product line makes automation simpler and sooner to begin for brand spanking new clients than ever earlier than.
