Smart robots in SKF bearings

SKF is spreading ideas and innovation in a series of events called Let’s Talk, talking about the most interesting industrial trends happening with sector experts, such as smart robots, digitalization and industry ecology. The latest in the series focused on smart robotics, with speakers Danica Kragic, professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of technology KTH, Daniel Wäppling, head of product architecture ABB Robotics, and Roberto Napione, head of Machine centre of excellence SFK.

As Napione says: “Pushing innovation with smart robots, able to assemble bearings in different sequences, will improve the industry’s operational efficiency, reducing maintenance times. But it also needs to be integrated into a smart, Big data environment within the factory”. Napione then explained how smart robots diffusion will not necessary reduce jobs, but rather transform them, and in the future we’ll see factories with people collaborating with robots, building environments, conditions and software between them. The recorded symposiums are available on SKF’s YouTube channel, and further infos can be found on SKF website.

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