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A UR cobot performs a spot operation. | Credit score: Common Robots

Fast Robotics and Common Robots (UR) simply introduced a brand new partnership. UR, a Danish firm that makes collaborative robots (cobots), will provide Fast Robotics with collaborative robotic arms in order that it could arrange cobot work cells throughout North America. Which means Fast Robotics will have the ability to serve extra clients and preserve the fast deployment instances that clients have come to count on, at the same time as Fast Robotics continues to develop throughout the nation.

“Because the variety of unfilled, vital manufacturing roles will increase and world financial uncertainty continues to affect provide chains, increasingly more North American producers are turning to automation,” mentioned Jordan Kretchmer, CEO and Co-Founding father of Fast Robotics. “This collaboration with UR helps us deploy extra cobots, with a greater diversity of capabilities, at a sooner charge, in the end serving to producers of all styles and sizes handle and even thrive by way of the adversity they’re going through.”

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Fast Robotics is built-in with and might use any cobot from the UR product line. This makes it attainable so as to add new capabilities like palletizing, field constructing and packing, and duties that want a heavier payload or longer attain. Fast Robotics may also have the ability to construct work cells and select peripheral tools with extra freedom.

Collectively, Fast Robotics and UR additionally pace up cobot deployments in new methods. UR’s two-week ship program is among the quickest within the trade, and Fast Robotics’ highly effective mixture of state-of-the-art AI, superior imaginative and prescient methods, and a novel software program stack means robots may be up and operating in buyer services in a matter of weeks as a substitute of the standard months to years.

“Common Robots has spent the final decade in North America centered on releasing up extra manpower by automating a variety of human-scale duties with easy-to-deploy cobots,” says Bryan Fowl, Common Robots’ Regional Gross sales President. “We’re excited to work with Fast Robotics in a partnership that may allow us to interrupt down extra automation limitations, deploying a robotic workforce to deal with these jobs producers merely can’t employees.”

In 2022, UR introduced in $326 million, a 5% enhance in annual income from 2021 and a 12% progress on a continuing forex foundation. UR is a part of the robotics division at Teradyne and delivered $85 million in gross sales in This autumn 2022, down from $97 million in This autumn 2021.

An enormous change for each new and outdated Fast Robotics clients is that there are actually extra methods and issues that may be automated. Present clients who need to develop their companies or fill open positions for machine operators can automate much more of their strains with UR’s cobots, which have new options. Fast Robotics’s expanded product line makes automation simpler and sooner to start out for brand spanking new clients than ever earlier than.