What’s the perfect place to find the most recent developments within the robotics {industry}? For a lot of, it’s the Automatica commerce truthful in Germany. Right here’s what we discovered at RoboDK throughout this yr’s Automatica 2025!
Automatica is held each two years in Munich, Germany. As Europe’s main commerce truthful for automation and robotics, it is without doubt one of the finest locations to attach with robotics firms and customers from all around the globe.
The 2025 version was some of the vibrant in recent times. RoboDK was there on the bottom to discover the most recent developments.
Let’s take a look on the commerce truthful and what we discovered this yr…
Setting the Stage at Automatica 2025
Each two years, the world’s greatest and most revolutionary know-how firms converge on the enormous Messe München convention middle in Munich, Germany.
The middle hosts a number of key {industry} commerce reveals concurrently, which this yr included the SicherheitsExpo safety truthful, World of Quantum know-how truthful, and Laser World of Photonics truthful.
For robotics, the first present of curiosity is Automatica.
Automatica is the biggest commerce truthful for robotics and automation in Europe. This yr, it was visited by over 49,300 individuals from greater than 90 nations. This included 800 exhibitors and over 1,100 robots on show.
At RoboDK, we explored the commerce truthful halls to deliver you the perfect and most fascinating developments from this yr’s occasion.
Introducing Comau: Democratizing Superior Robotics
Comau is a world-leading supplier of robotic options with over half a century of expertise in industrial robotics. The corporate boasts a powerful observe file of industry-leading options, together with the groundbreaking collaborative AURA cobot with 170 kg payload capability that it launched in 2020.
This yr, we caught up with Gioacchino Civiletti, Product Supervisor at Comau at their sales space in Corridor B5, who confirmed us the corporate’s newest collaborative robots of their MyCo vary.
Cobots for Many Purposes
The corporate’s MyCo cobot vary covers payloads from 3 to fifteen kg. They’re appropriate for a variety of purposes together with arc welding, choose and place, palletizing, and even academic use.
A major good thing about Comau’s new cobots is how they will help to optimize ground house. Via a mix of know-how, coaching, and after-sales help, they assist new customers to learn from the corporate’s large experience.
You could find the MyCo robotic fashions prepared to be used in RoboDK in our Robotic Library
Introducing FerRobotics: Giving Robots the Sense of Contact
FerRobotics is an Austria-based firm specializing in delicate merchandise for grinding, sanding and different floor ending processes.
Lots of our RoboDK customers make use of FerRobotics instruments in our simulator. We spoke to Ronald Naderer, CEO of FerRobotics, on the firm’s sales space in Corridor B6 about the advantages of utilizing their system when shifting from a CAD system to an actual robotic course of.
Fixing the Problem of Drive Management in CAD
As a world chief in Energetic Compliant Know-how, FerRobotics equips cobots with what they name “contact intelligence”. This helps to handle a standard problem with robotic floor ending — whereas the CAD file can generate trajectories for the floor passes, you possibly can’t see course of parameters like drive or RPM of the device.
Naderer defined:
“Robotic sanding and grinding is without doubt one of the most intricate processes to simulate. You possibly can see the robotic motion, however you can’t see the drive. We now have an excellent expertise utilizing RoboDK as a result of we are able to simulate the entire course of.”
Introducing Autonox: Redefining Robotic Mechanics for Sturdy Machining
Autonox is a supplier of controller-independent robotic mechanics that helps a variety of robotic constructions and specs.
As many RoboDK customers make use of our software program for robotic machining, we have been to be taught from Autonox’s experience.
We spoke to Elisabeth Schärtl from Autonox on the firm’s sales space in Corridor A4.
The First Robotic Machining of Tempered Metal
One utility that the corporate had on present was developed in collaboration with Siemens and Fraunhofer IFAM. It combines the idea of CNC management with specialised damping options to create a high-stiffness robotic {hardware}.
This makes the system appropriate for milling very laborious supplies like tempered metal, which was not attainable beforehand with robotic machining.
Schärtl defined:
“After all, it’s not in competitors with basic CNC machining. It’s nonetheless a robotic. However you now have the chance to machine greater components with a precision that has not been attainable with a robotic till now.”
The precise path accuracy of the milling course of varies relying on the precise utility and supplies. Nonetheless, the corporate is already attaining very promising accuracies, with much more developments anticipated sooner or later.
Trying Forward: What Automatica 2025 Tells Us About Robotics
This yr’s Automatica underscored a significant theme in robotics, the place applied sciences are utilized in related ecosystems as a substitute of remoted methods. From Comau’s new cobot vary to the application-specific developments of FerRobotics and Autonox, we’re seeing options that push the boundaries of what’s attainable with robotic automation.
Takayuki Ito, President of the Worldwide Federation of Robotics, stated in a abstract of the commerce truthful “Automatica is without doubt one of the most essential occasions for all the European robotics {industry}. It brings collectively international know-how leaders and customers to trade concepts, discover improvements, and drive the way forward for automation.”
At RoboDK, we consider in creating options that deliver totally different applied sciences collectively to make life simpler for robotic customers. This implies persevering with to attach with firms which are pushing the boundaries of what’s attainable with robotic automation.
We’re already trying ahead to the subsequent Automatica in 2027, to see what contemporary developments are simply across the nook!
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