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30.11.2021

Digitalization

Essential-Edition Robotics: The Audio Version

In the “Human or Machine?” edition of our company magazine ESSENTIAL, we take a look at some very special machines: robots. How and where are they helping us in industry and in our personal lives? As the edition’s title suggests, we also explore the issue of what robots should actually be able to do. Where is the boundary between intelligence and interaction? Where does it lie between mechanics and emotions? We are offering selected ESSENTIAL articles as an audio edition. Listen as we point out the requirements that robots are presenting to us as sealing experts, and as we describe how robots are helping us in distribution centers and production facilities. Look forward to hearing how robot manufacturer KUKA is taking automation further, how education can benefit from robots, and how developers of robots are gearing their work to nature.

Mockup of ESSENTIAL magazine issue November 2021

ESSENTIAL AUDIO BOOK

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A black square robot GoPal travels through a warehouse

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A water bottle is grabbed from a shelf. Copyright: iStock / mediaphotos

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Grasping is Harder than Thinking

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Close-up of several hands performing an operation. Copyright: Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

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“Swab, Please, Dr. Robot!”

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Robotic arms on the stove preparing food in a pot.

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Two Arms and Three Stars

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Blue autonomous car turning onto a street with a moving car

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Not Automatically Autonomous

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Collage of three illustrations. At the top is a skyline by the water, at the bottom left is a cliff with two kayakers and on the right is a close-up of a car light

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No Way Around Robots

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Illustration of a baby seal being stroked by an older man half his size with an illustrated orange hand in the background.

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“We Talk About Robotics as Though It Were off in the Future”

Informatics scientist Selma Šabanović of Indiana University makes the case that robotics has long been part and parcel of our daily life – only it is not obvious to us.

A man stands with a cocktail cup in front of a box in which two robotic arms mix a cocktail and several different alcohol bottles on the ceiling. Copyright: KUKA Group

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Making it Easy

Kuka wants to make automation available to everyone. A key component of the initiative is a new operating and ecological system. But classic machine building virtues are still important.