Industrial Thinking from Automata

Picture this - it’s Thursday and an important customer has just put in an order which needs to be delivered Monday. There’s no way to fit it into Friday’s production schedule. You’re going to have to pull a double shift. Probably will have to cancel your weekend plans as well.

We had a similar situation in the office recently with our 3D printers - I needed to do a large batch print over the weekend, so would have to be there to manually remove them from the print bed. However, I didn’t fancy spending my weekend in the office, so I got Eva, our simple affordable robot, to do it. Below is a short video of the result, followed by an overview of how I set it up.

Here in the UK, adoption of robots for manufacturing is significantly lower than in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.

Whether that's due to worries that robots will take away jobs rather than create them, or simply not enough investment in the sector, we're well aware that many of our potential customers have a complex journey ahead of them.

Just glance at the cover of any of the glossy industry magazines and it looks like just about everyone in the UK is talking about robots. But there's a difference between 'knowing you'll have to start thinking about robots soon' and being ready to implement one on your production line. 🤔