First Trainers Run Off Adidas ‘SpeedFactory’s’ Production Line in Germany
Adidas’s new highly automated and very flexible manufacturing plant called the SpeedFactory has begun to produce trainers. The machines...
IFR Forecasts That 1.7m New Industrial Robots Will Be in Use by 2020
The International Federation of Robotics released their annual update on market trends in September, their key headline was that they...
ABB Adds Further Robotics Capacity in the U.S. as Fanuc Focuses on China
Ulrich Spiesshofer, who took over as CEO of ABB in 2013, said in an interview with Reuters that the company is planning to expand its...
Kuka Will Roll Out Its Collaborative Robot on an Autonomous Platform
Kuka is expected to make its mobile collaborative robot available to more factories, partly as a result of its takeover by Midea, the...
Foxconn’s $10 billion Wisconsin Electronics Factory Could Be First of Many
Foxconn the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and perhaps Apple’s most well-known supplier has announced a plan to build a factory...