The Eurecat Technology Center has developed robotic applications with proprietary software for inspecting and maintaining industrial facilities and infrastructure, using quadruped robots equipped with sensors that can move autonomously in complex environments.
These robots, which feature multimodal sensors such as optical and thermal cameras and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors, “can access hard-to-reach areas and collect data for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance,” explains Carlos Rizzo, head of Mobile Robotics at Eurecat.
Thus, adds Rizzo, these robotic applications “improve the safety of workers, increase inspection frequency, and enable smarter management of industrial assets.”
Collaborative robotics for handling delicate objects
The organization also used the Advanced Factories fair to showcase a production system that handles Codorníu cava bottles, an example of the center’s ability to drive innovation in flexible and modular architectures to manipulate all kinds of industrial components and delicate objects, boosting efficiency.
The solution includes advanced computer vision and intelligent algorithms to give the robot a flexible, efficient, and scalable adaptability, “in a way that it can be used with multiple types of objects and materials, such as plastics, metals, food products, and soft materials, among others, without needing complex reconfigurations,” explains Félix Torres, Eurecat’s Robotics and Automation researcher.
The advanced robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence applied to manufacturing and production “are driving the technological leap the industry is undergoing, for which Eurecat develops and blends digital and industrial technologies that open the door to new opportunities for the business ecosystem,” says Eva Fité, Eurecat’s head of Business Development in Manufacturing Industries.
“The innovations Eurecat presents with companies such as Codorníu, Metalogenia, Carpel, Rotimpress, and Pröll demonstrate the momentum of technological transformation, thanks to new cyber-physical systems and the next generation of robots that point to the future of advanced manufacturing,” Eva Fité emphasizes. We are attaching the press release with full details and two images.
