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ESSENTIAL Magazine
17.08.2021
Digitalization

ESSENTIAL Now Goes Audio

Our company magazine ESSENTIAL offers readers coverage of global megatrends and developments that impact our business and our lives. ESSENTIAL is a bi-annual print magazine that explores key topics like digitalization, renewable energy, or alternative powertrains. Each of these topics is covered online with additional weekly articles between each print issue. Listen to selected articles from the print edition in our new Audio Guide.

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Vision control system.

13.12.2022

Connected Factory: From Vision to Reality

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies’ goal is the connected factory. The first steps have been taken, and others will follow as the company works with its plants toward the vision of digitalization.

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

01.03.2022

Grasping is Harder than Thinking

Seeing, grasping, grabbing - sounds simple. But it's not. Equipping robots with functioning hands is still one of the greatest challenges today.

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

22.02.2022

“Swab, Please, Dr. Robot!”

Robotics in the operating room complements the strengths of doctors. Why we still won't be operated on by autonomous robots for the time being.

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Robotic arms on the stove preparing food in a pot.

15.02.2022

Two Arms and Three Stars

Robots working as kitchen helpers are scoring points for their precision and hygiene. Fully automatic restaurants and android waiters are still a sensation.

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A black square robot GoPal travels through a warehouse

08.02.2022

Highly Organized Ant Swarms

The future is a large swarm. How autonomous mobile robots are conquering warehouses – and even the factories of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies.

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Blue autonomous car turning onto a street with a moving car

01.02.2022

Not Automatically Autonomous

Autonomous vehicles seem to be a special species of robot. The differences cannot be justified on either technical or commercial grounds. They lie in our view of driving.

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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

25.01.2022

No Way Around Robots

Even Freudenberg’s joint venture partners and subsidiaries are turning to robots. Greg Edwards (XALT Energy) and Atsushi Osada (NOK) offer a glimpse of their companies and homelands.

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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.

18.01.2022

“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.

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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

11.01.2022

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.

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Close-up of a black robotic lawnmower in the grass. Copyright: iStock/Focused

14.12.2021

Are You Still Mowing?

There are better ways to spend your Saturdays than mowing the lawn. But mowing robots are only a source of satisfaction when they keep operating even under harsh conditions.

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