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FANUC has been added to Wandelbots’ robotics producer portfolio. | Supply: Wandelbots

Wandelbots, the Dresden, Germany-based robotics software program developer, introduced that it has added FANUC to its portfolio of robotics producers. FANUC would be the third robotics firm to combine Wandelbots Educating into its robots. 

FANUC plans to launch the primary variations of its Wandelbots-enabled robots in 2023. It follows Common Robots and Yaskawa in integrating the software program. 

“Wandelbots’ aim is that every one robots, no matter producer or mannequin, might be managed with our know-how. With the combination of FANUC, we’re getting lots nearer to our aim,” Bernd Heinrichs, co-CEO of the corporate, stated. “Having one other robotics producer in our portfolio permits us to open up new markets and supply Wandelbots Educating to a variety of corporations. For Wandelbots, FANUC additionally has particular relevance, as we’re presently coming into the US market, the place FANUC is broadly used.”

The corporate takes a no-code strategy to programming robots with its Wandelbots Educating platform. The platform permits corporations to work with robots by mapping out the robotic’s path utilizing TracePen, which was launched by the corporate in 2020. TracePen adjusts the robotic’s path through an app and might switch the applying to another robotic. TracePen’s monitoring permits customers to plan out a path right down to the millimeter.

Wandelbots’ software program works the identical with any robotic from the three corporations it presently works with, that means customers can be working with the identical interface on each robotic. 

FANUC is among the world’s largest producers of business robots, with over 900,000 robots offered and over 100 totally different fashions provided. Together with industrial robotic arms, FANUC provides CNC controllers and servo motors. 

In March 2022, FANUC added three new fashions to its CRX cobot sequence. The brand new fashions present 5 kg, 20 kg and 25 kg payload capacities, offering heaving and lighter payloads than the unique cobots within the line. The CRX line of cobots are designed for quite a lot of purposes, together with inspection, machine load/unload, packing, palletizing, sanding, welding and extra.

In January 2022, Wandelbots introduced in $84 million in Collection C funding, bringing the corporate’s whole funding so far to $123 million. The corporate deliberate to make use of the funding to scale its instructing platform to work with extra robots for extra purposes in additional areas.