Blue as blue can

or: SCHUNK on the leading international trade show for the machine tool industry - EMO 2013

Every two years the world's largest exhibition in metalworking, respectively the leading international trade show for the machine tool industry - the EMO Hannover 2013 - takes place.

So this trade show is right at the center of attention for the company I work for: SCHUNK.

And of course for the majority of our customers it's one of the most important events in the year.

Beside all the great technology I was able to explore there...

 ...it's always a great opportunity to meet colleagues and customers from all over the world!

Jack & woman customer from China

Sergio & customer from Brazil

HJ and customers from South Korea

HD & T.-san standing left and right side of a customer from Japan

My dear colleague Marcin from Poland...

...and many more I can't make mention of individually here in this post.

Something everybody should have at home: our Powerball Leight Weight Arm LWA 4P with servo-electrical gripper for stationary and mobile applications in the field of service robotics and industrial handling. In other words: programmed, installed and used correctly this modular 6-axis robot may clean up your home one day... ;-)

By the way: here's Jens Lehmann, former world-class goalkeeper and now our SCHUNK brand ambassador.

Over the period of the trade show week we gave 6000 footballs as a present for our esteemed customers.

Finally I perpetuated me and my hand next to our anthropomorphic (human-like) five-finger hand in this photo.

I hope you liked my short, but thoroughly blue tour of our SCHUNK booth on the EMO 2013...

Robots on the AUTOMATICA 2012

Here's my short and absolutely subjective as well as uncomplete overview of the AUTOMATICA 2012 exhibition at Munich.

What's new???

The M-2000iA series from FANUC ROBOTICS is the world's largest and strongest six-axis, modular construction, electric servo-driven family of robots, designed for a variaty of manufacturing and system processes.

This robot demonstrates a handling operation of motor blocks. It's equipped with quick change and gripping systems from SCHUNK.

 Here you see the heavy-load quick change system that allows the robot to change the actuator / its robot hand for different handling operations.

Two 2-finger grippers (looks like the PGN+ series from SCHUNK)  grasp the motor blocks and the robot takes them to the next process.

Here's the robot after changing its robot hand / gripping systems from the 2-finger grippers to a special gripping system grasping some bigger devices.

At the same time on the SCHUNK exhibition booth...

SCHUNK: superior clamping and gripping.

Now together with our new brand ambassador and former world-class goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.

View into the SCHUNK lounge designed like a soccer locker room.

Our exhibition booth moderator and anchorwoman Jessica Kastrop together with Jens Lehmann.

SCHUNK panel discussion with soccer experts and guests out of the automation branch.

This is what we call a well-attended exhibition stand... ;-)

What else did I see?

SCHUNK light weight arm with integrated anthropomorphic SDH hand as a part of a development project to test washing machines automatically from the Italian company Loccioni.

DLR project: The human at the centre – safe, intuitive collaboration with robotic systems.

Humanoid walking machine.

Last but not least: Justin, the 43-axis robot / mobile humanoid torso from DLR - great!