![]() ![]() It is fine and well to talk about smart factories, but without proper safety, it is just talk. Without correctly addressing the safety aspects, nothing can work, according to Nikolaj. “Pallets can weigh up to a on and this puts stringent demands on the system that’ll be moving them.” (“Safety and security, this is a critical area,” says Nikolaj. Commercialization has begun and there is a very illustrative video at their website that demonstrates the robot’s capabilities. Three GoPal robots are already in service. They now have a safe solution and Nikolaj has audited the documentation alongside development activities. Robotize has put considerable effort into the safety aspects of GoPal’s various functions. The database can be connected to the parent warehouse management system (WMS), which Nikolaj says makes it a truly smart Industry 4.0 system. The information in the main computer is not just used to prevent collisions and find the best routes, it is also used to determine which unit will pick up when and where, and it prioritizes movements to optimize logistics handling. This is a unique strength, something not even the large, global leaders can offer.” If something new turns up in the surroundings, other systems come to a stop, while GoPal gathers the necessary information itself and updates for all other units as well via the main computer. “This is a major advantage with GoPal since other commercial systems require steering, programming and updating,” Nikolaj explains. All data is stored in a central database where it can be combined with other information. When a GoPal is installed in a storage area or warehouse, it maps its surroundings, surfaces and objects, with LIDAR as it moves around. “From the prototype stage, all that was left was to push on, and things continued to go very quickly.” ![]() “Nikolaj couldn’t believe his eyes,” says Anders with a laugh. ![]() By January of 2017, they already had a first operable prototype of the GoPal robot. Once Anders and his colleagues had obtained better and digital documentation, work accelerated. They sat down together to sort out the challenges and opportunities – with several improvements as a result. ![]() This is how Prevas came into the picture in continued planning. At the same time, it’s naturally important that you have the core product expertise.” “We wanted to do everything ourselves at first, but we soon realized that it’s far more efficient to engage the best of the people you have around you,” says Anders. “I don’t really think he had all that much faith in the development of a mobile logistics robot, but he was naturally willing to help out.”Įven if Anders had previously worked with both Prevas and Nikolaj and things had always gone smoothly, the idea from the beginning was only to use Prevas for certain parts of the product development. “We showed a schematic to Nikolaj of what we wanted to do,” says Anders Pjetursson, CEO for Robotize. Could Prevas perhaps lend a hand with the development? The next step was to employ an industrial designer, and it was then that they initiated discussions with Prevas and business development manager, Nikolaj Hanson. They began searching for software developers and looked at various technical solutions as early as within the idea stage. (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.Robotize is a young and forward-looking company that was just recently founded in June of 2016 but with a clear vision about the solution they wanted to develop: Autonomous robots – or self-driving vehicles – for internal logistics handling of EUR pallets.(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman ).Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (page xiv) Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify. (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.* 2010, Tom Chivers and Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph, : The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.* 2010, Tim Webb, The Guardian, : It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots, equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed. ![]()
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