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Due to the spread of COVID-19, the logistics industry has seen an explosive increase in the volume of goods handled, and automation in this industry is advancing rapidly with a focus on warehouses. By combining the versatility of robot arms with the mobility of trackless unmanned transport vehicles, Kawasaki can offer measures for the automation and optimization of logistics processes that involve automated warehouses including product receiving and shipping. Taking on the challenge of the “barriers to warehouse entry and shipment”in logistics automation In recent years, factors such as the expansion of the EC market have led to increasingly serious labor shortages in the logistics industry. Logistics labor saving and automation […]
others, including machinery and appliance manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, civil engineering, medical/pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics industries — and more. Robots have proven to be particularly useful for lines with short product cycles, small-lot production of goods, and mixed-quantity production. As these needs are increasing, robots’ abilities are expanding.
Welding, painting, assembly, polishing, transportation and more. For more than 50 years, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has been building robots to work in giant auto and semiconductor factories. But now they’re focusing on becoming a fully integrated robotics company. What kind of robot society is coming? What kind of robots will Kawasaki make for the future? We interviewed Noboru Takagi, the head of robot division at Kawasaki Precision Machinery & Robot Company, to find out. COVID-19 Rapidly Increases Demand for Robots Demand for robots has skyrocketed around the world since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. According to a report by the Robotics for Infectious Diseases organization, there are more […]
Are the structures of robots and humans the same? Robots and humans share a common feature. Humans and mechanical robots—as opposite as they may seem, they, in fact, share the same underlying structure of links (bones) and joints. The basic skeleton of industrial robots, of which is made up of mainly robotic arms, is a combination of links and joints. Relating it to a human body, parts that can freely bend and move about, such as the elbow and shoulder, are the joints, and the bones connecting those joints are equivalent to a robot’s links. The principle of moving joints and transmitting power through the links is common in both […]
The growing issue of workforce shortages Currently, Japan is on the verge of becoming an aging society with a low birthrate, unlike any other in the world. The total population of Japan peaked in 2008, amounting to 128.08 million people, but has since been on the decline at a rate of approximately 100,000 people per year. According to the “Population Projections for Japan: 2016 to 2065” conducted by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research in Japan (IPSS), the population is projected to fall below 100 million by the year 2053. The results of these projections have led to concerns about the growing issue of workforce shortages. In […]
Robots packed your boxed lunch!? When you hear the word “robot,” what comes to your mind? Did you think of Softbank’s human-shaped robot, Pepper, or Sony’s pet robot, AIBO? Or maybe even the cleaning robots, mainly represented by iRobot’s Roomba? With Japan’s trend in declining birthrate and rising aging population, expectations toward livelihood support robots are increasing. In recent years, we often see robots even in our daily lives. Because of that, it may seem that robots have started to develop just recently. However, robots have actually been playing an indispensable role in the industrial world for a long time. These robots are called “industrial robots”. Industrial robots were introduced […]