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Every mobile robot has the same problem. The arms are too heavy. Too weak. Too dumb… You bolt on a robot designed for a factory floor and wonder why your AMR’s battery dies in 2 hours. The payload-to-weight ratio kills you. The arm weighs 20kg and lifts 5. Mobile...

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A versatile robot helping out airports! 🛩️ Meet a two-wheeled robot from Fraunhofer IML! 🦿 This balancing robot with gripping arms successfully completed its initial practical tests at the cargo terminal of Munich Airport a while ago. It transported goods, supported loading and unloading, and assisted with physically demanding logistics tasks. This robot can carry loads of up to 100 kg and reach speeds of around 60 km/h. That’s far beyond what most AMRs can handle, yet it still has arms and a form of mobility that lets it work in spaces designed for people. P.S. What other applications would you use this robot for?! 🦾 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

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29,773 views • 7 months ago

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Blaze

61,030 views • 3 months ago

🚨BREAKING: A new humanoid robot straight out of Europe! Kinisi has introduced their humanoid robot called KR1. This robot has a base with wheels instead of legs. This provides much greater stability and safety for human workers. It’s built for warehouse and factory tasks like picking, stacking, and moving goods. It supports payloads up to 15 kg, runs 8 hours per charge with hot-swappable batteries, and docks itself for recharging. The robot can lift heavy boxes from high shelves, handle fragile items without damage, and adapt its arm trajectories on the fly to avoid obstacles. In demos, it moved smoothly between shelves, placed items into totes, and transported them across the warehouse, all autonomously. Great retrofitting potential, because it doesn’t require major infrastructure changes to deploy. It learns from simple demonstrations, operates offline for reliability and privacy, and integrates quickly into existing workflows. Let’s not forget that E-commerce is growing rapidly, with global online sales expected to reach nearly $7 trillion by 2025. As more people shop online, the number of packages being shipped each day is soaring. These robots help us to make sure they will be delivered on time! 📦
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🚨BREAKING: A new humanoid robot straight out of Europe! Kinisi has introduced their humanoid robot called KR1. This robot has a base with wheels instead of legs. This provides much greater stability and safety for human workers. It’s built for warehouse and factory tasks like picking, stacking, and moving goods. It supports payloads up to 15 kg, runs 8 hours per charge with hot-swappable batteries, and docks itself for recharging. The robot can lift heavy boxes from high shelves, handle fragile items without damage, and adapt its arm trajectories on the fly to avoid obstacles. In demos, it moved smoothly between shelves, placed items into totes, and transported them across the warehouse, all autonomously. Great retrofitting potential, because it doesn’t require major infrastructure changes to deploy. It learns from simple demonstrations, operates offline for reliability and privacy, and integrates quickly into existing workflows. Let’s not forget that E-commerce is growing rapidly, with global online sales expected to reach nearly $7 trillion by 2025. As more people shop online, the number of packages being shipped each day is soaring. These robots help us to make sure they will be delivered on time! 📦

Lukas Ziegler

23,262 views • 10 months ago