On Monday the 20th of January, Smart Robotics was part of an internal event for the personnel of DSV Solutions Netherlands. During this event, we presented ‘the future of logistics’ by demonstrating our Smart Palletizer and Smart Item Picker. In addition, Mobile Item Picking was presented in cooperation with Eurotec. We were happy to seeRead more
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The well-known DSV, a large player within transport and logistics, cooperates with Smart Robotics and the Technical University Eindhoven on a project where universally applicable cobots in logistics are researched, developed and implemented. The demand for collaborative robots in SME’s is growing rapidly. However, the investments in these robots are often too high for SME’s. Besides,Read more
Smart Item Robotics, developed through a cooperation between Vanderlande and Smart Robotics, recently won the Readers’ Choice Product of the Year Award by Material Handling Product News. This award honors the achievements of companies for advances in materials handling systems and equipment within manufacturing, distribution centers and warehouses. Besides this cooperation on item picking solutionsRead more
When deploying a fleet of mobile robots, there are choices to be made on how to implement the planning and control of the fleet. While centralized planning offers the highest level of predictability and control, there can be a drawback in flexibility and reactivity. On the other hand, employing decentralized planning that runs on the robots themselves is highly flexible and theRead more
In the series ‘How to make a robot move’ we will discuss in several blog posts how to make robots move. This first introductory blog will focus on the communication towards robots, using motion planning and robot drivers. Other blogs will go more into depth and focus on how to generate motions, how motions can be used inRead more
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – 6th of November 2019 – Smart Robotics, a leading developer of robot-independent, intelligent software for the rapid deployment of collaborative robots (‘cobots’), has announced today that it has secured a substantial investment to accelerate product roll-out in a round led by Dutch high-tech venture capital fund Innovation Industries and Mirai CreationRead more
RTL Z recently interviewed Heico Sandee for the online seminar “Future skills: are you ready for the future?”. During the seminar it was discussed what the world will look like in 10 years, and how we will work then. During the interview Heico discussed the growth of Smart Robotics, the development of our smart robot solutionsRead more
Using platform thinking enables the development of flexible and reusable technologies for various robot applications. But how can you implement newly developed software into existing products and at the same time ensure that it only improves functionality instead of deteriorates it? This blog discusses the use of early adopters to test and implement new softwareRead more
A concept closely related to the Scrum process in software development is the concept of Continuous Delivery: making sure that the software product being developed is stable, functional and releasable at the end of every sprint. A sprint may be about creating code changes for a partial solution to a bigger problem but should never containRead more
The Dutch technical magazine ‘Technisch Weekblad’ has published an article about the fast developments in robotics, and its impact on the labor market. It focuses on how robots can cooperate with people, instead of taking over their jobs. Not a competitor, but a colleague. Heico Sandee, Managing Director of Smart Robotics, was interviewed for thisRead more