Month: November 2020

Advanced Robotic Technology for Handling Soft Materials in Manufacturing Sectors

IIT participation to SOFTMANBOT project

The Industrial Robotics Unit (URI) at IIT specializes in advanced robotics solutions for industrial applications. The lab has worked with a host of national and multinational industries for automation of a variety of complex processes. One of our robots is also currently being installed on the new bridge of Genova (San Giorgio Bridge). Since the…
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Project Update Zimmer Group

In the past 12 months, the research project SOFTMANBOT has brought many developments to the Zimmer Group despite the difficult conditions caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Before the lockdown, visits could be made to the project partners JUEMA (Alicante, Spain), PLASTINHER URBAN S.L (Elche, Spain) and DECATHLON (Tirana, Albania). Only the visit to MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand)…
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PLASTINHER URBAN has published an article on the ‘Asociación Española de Componentes de Calzado (AEC)’

PLASTINHER URBAN has published an article on the ‘Asociación Española de Componentes de Calzado (AEC)’ website regarding its participation in the SOFTMANBOT project, whose main objective is the development of a robotic system for handling flexible pieces which, in this case, will be applied to the extraction of shoe soles from injection moulds: “This task,…
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Michelin and its first year of SOFTMANBOT

After a very particular year all around the world, we are pretty satisfied of the work done in the softManBot project. The first stage of the work was to encounter the partners and start sharing our challenges for the robotic system with great researchers and people. After this first stage, the time as come to…
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