Ibrahim ahmed
Smart Robots is the technological solution for Industry 4.0 which doubles the performance of every workstation in a factory, increasing productivity and quality while dramatically reducing errors relating to manual tasks. Smart Robots, created in the Enterprises Factory e-Novia, has returned to CES Las Vegas from the 7th to the 10th of January, winning the prestigious Innovation Award in the Robotics section in the process.
Smart Robots, developed by the company of the same name, is the innovative device which guides human operators while they carry out their tasks, and creates an interface between human operators and robots in smart factories. Thanks to this technology it is now possible to intercept human errors in manual tasks and immediately rectify them, and what is more, these robots and the manual operators share the same spaces on the production line, creating complete collaboration in which the robot identifies the human operator’s movements, and consequently executes certain actions. Smart Robots has a huge impact on output: it eliminates the costs related to reworking, it increases quality levels by reducing the error rate, and can double productivity.
Smart Robots has two main fields of application. In its ‘stand-alone’ version, dedicated to quality control, it guides the human operator at a manual workstation in order to reduce errors while also speeding up the training process. The second field of application is at human-robot collaborative workstations: in this case it adapts to the actions taken by the human and assists the human in the most repetitive and least ergonomic tasks they have to carry out. In this way, workstation productivity is increased, with the human operator being able to spend more time on high added-value tasks.
Among the many awards received by Smart Robots since it was created, the most recent were the Innovation Business Award in the Industry and Robotics category, an award given by the Associazione Nazionale Giovani Innovatori (ANGI) during an important ceremony at the House of Representatives at the Italian parliament on the 17th of December last year, as well as the Innovation Award in the Robotics category at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where Smart robots is presenting its products at the Enterprises Factory e-Novia’s stand at the Las Vegas Convention Centre.