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A system with moving transfer plates! 🍽️ Modular transfer plates that move items in any direction. These systems from Festo give factories something really cool; reconfigurable motion that adapts as layouts or processes change. Because they can route items in multiple directions, you can run inspections, branch flows based... show more

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Léo2 months ago

These have been around for a while, and seem less advanced than Kiva or Exotec imho. Are we even calling this "robotics"?

yacine2 months ago

The idea is cool but why not just make plates with wheels ?

Иоан2 months ago

Imagine this as vr treadmill

NameWink.com2 months ago

would you like to acquire short domain name matching your handle to use in place of substack's subdomain? we have 5-letter

Stephen Seachord2 months ago

You could make a waterpark ride out of this!🌊😎

jojo1 month ago

Checkout the beckhoff ones, they’re magnetic and can also do this upside down. Only reason they don’t recommend this, if power goes out they fall lol

Mohsin Yaseen | AI × Power Electronics ⚡2 months ago

Overkill for standard bulk 3PLs, but an absolute game-changer for high-density urban micro-fulfillment. The floor footprint savings alone justify the price tag. The future of dark stores isn't bigger warehouses—it's smarter active surfaces like this.

mahdi2 months ago

In festo we trust

Harmoné Ltd2 months ago

Finally a conveyor that doesn’t just go in a straight line and call it a day. This one has main character energy.

Daniel Lambert2 months ago

Great example of how intelligent automation can improve factory and warehouse operations. Reconfigurable systems offer incredible flexibility as production needs evolve. 📦🤖

Grace Gerwe2 months ago

This is oddly satisfying

premium vodka1 month ago

I literally cannot imagine a single manualgacturing process that would need something like this. Just put things on a conveyor.

Joel Kessels2 months ago

Cool idea

Psalter2 months ago

Fast moving place, sounds efficient

Saksham2 months ago

V cool

RelayFeed2 months ago

This is cool But this wouldn't work at the other edges if those gears arnt aligned right

BAM Studios2 months ago

Wait... this isn't the hotplate for a 3D printer?

AF2 months ago

Interesting alternative to Beckhoff Xplanar. What’s the pricing like?

Tristan Rhodes1 month ago

Is this how that walking floor that Disney made works?

Saša Senjić2 months ago

FESTO rules

zarth.dev2 months ago

It is so coool

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