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A pallet that never arrives the same way twice In a distribution warehouse or at a factory's raw materials receiving area, pallets arrive from different suppliers, with boxes of various sizes, stacked without a fixed pattern and often with tape, labels or film. Someone has to unload them box by box onto a conveyor or a picking station. It is one of the heaviest and most repetitive jobs in logistics. For years, automatic depalletizing was only viable when pallets were homogene

A container full of jumbled parts Parts arrive from stamping, forging or the supplier in a metal container, piled up in no particular order. Someone has to pick them up one by one and place them in the machine, on a conveyor or in a tray. It is a simple task for a person, but a very demanding one for a robot: it needs to know exactly where each part is, how it is oriented and where it can grip it without colliding. In the article on machine vision in robots we introduced bin

An idle machining centre produces nothing In many machine shops the scene repeats itself: a lathe or machining centre with cycles lasting several minutes and an operator waiting for it to finish so they can open the door, remove the part, blow off the chips, load the next one and restart. During the cycle, that operator does little more than watch. And when they go to another machine, take a break or finish their shift, the machine stops. CNC machine tending is one of the app

The hours nobody counts In most plants and warehouses there's a cost that never shows up on any dashboard: skilled people pushing carts. Moving material from the warehouse to the lines, clearing finished product, shifting pallets between processes. Thousands of hours a year that add no value to the product, yet consume some of the hardest staff to hire. Autonomous mobile robots — AMRs — exist precisely to recover those hours. How an AMR works An AMR navigates the plant autono

Why a young manufacturer has earned a seat among the big names In collaborative robotics, the historic names are no longer the only ones that matter. Dobot has become one of the fastest-growing cobot manufacturers in the world with a very specific proposition: reliable robots, easy to programme, with a performance-to-price ratio that's hard to match. It doesn't compete on technological novelty — it competes on the robot simply working, being easy to adopt, and not requiring a

A robot without vision only repeats. A robot with vision decides A conventional robot executes recorded movements: it always picks the part from the same spot and places it in the same spot. It works beautifully as long as the world cooperates. But the moment reality gets messy — loose parts in a bin, boxes arriving in random positions, a defect nobody expected — the blind robot stops. Or worse: it doesn't. Machine vision is what turns a robotic arm into a system capable of s

The job nobody wants is the easiest one to automate Almost every plant has a station at the end of the line where someone lifts boxes for an entire shift. Repetitive motion, constant loads, cumulative lower-back risk. It's one of the roles with the highest turnover, the most sick leave, and the hardest time finding candidates. And for exactly those reasons, it's the application with the fastest return on investment in all of collaborative robotics. Until recently, robotic pal