Fixed vs mobile – let the robot wars begin!

Posted on 3 Jan 2020 by The Manufacturer

The “seismic” shift from fixed automation to mobile robots will transform material handling within the industrial supply chain, as well as other areas of manufacturing – according to new research by a global tech market advisory firm.

AVGs are fixed, heavy installations used in repetitive processes – whereas AMRs are more flexible and cost-effective, performing sophisticated tasks without manual operation or observation By 2022, the rapidly growing autonomous mobile robots (AMR) space will start to overtake the traditional industrial robotics market, and of the 8 million robots forecast…

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