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Thailand is the next country expected to embrace collaborative robots due to increased local competition as well as from nearby countries thanks to the Asean Free Trade Area Agreement.Many companies see the cobots and as enrichment to their current workforce that relieves employees of repetitive or dangerous tasks and allowing them to advance their skills in other areas. Universal Robots is one provider of collaborative robots (cobots) that is being deployed in industries worldwide, includ …

For Paradigm Electronics, launching an immediately successful new finish on their speakers threw their production estimates for a loop. Because they make their products completely in-house, Paradigm made some clever decisions on how to accommodate the upswing in demand. “In order to produce that finish, you have to apply multiple layers of lacquer and between each layered application, you have to sand and buff, sand and buff. There’s a lot of manual labor involved in that. The problem is t …

The automotive industry leads the pack in deployment of industrial robots, but in 2016, robot sales spiked for the North American food and consumer goods industry, which found use for new collaborative robot equipment in applications such as pick and pack and palletizing.Collaborative robots continue to rise in popularity among smaller manufacturers due to their more compact size, application and programming flexibility as well as the relatively low cost compared to traditional robots. The …