| | NOVEMBER 20218INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE ROBOTS By Sangeet Kumar, Founder & CEO, AddverbT he onset of the Industrial Revolution augmented the Mobile Robots Application across different industrial functions, however, the latest developments and the pace of business operations made it almost a mandate for many companies to adopt these bots into their everyday operations. Mobile robots, descendants of driverless vehi-cles that were taken birth in the grocery warehouse of Mac Barret found their place not only within the four walls of the industrial warehouse but across different applications like military, security, healthcare, domestic, surveillance, and entertainment industries.Despite their ubiquitous presence across the spec-trum, we will discuss the most popular Mobile Robots Application & the associated structures here.Intra-Logistics ­ Warehouse LogisticsShelf Units ­ Semi-automated installation (manual inter-vention) ­ To transport semi-finished or finished goods between productions, between production and ware-house and/or in warehouse logistics. This is especially useful for automobile or electronics industries where the manufacturing of main products involves the assembly of thousands of spare parts.Conveyor band/belts ­ This is one of the popular ap-plications of mobile robotics with a conveyor top module attached to it. It is used majorly to transport material be-tween fixed conveyor band/belts- it could be between a robotic depalletization unit to shelving unit, or from a pal-letizing unit to dispatch unit or between production lines or from the production line to delivery. These are usually fully Warehouse Automation Solutions.Robotic Arm ­ A mobile robot mounted with a bin-pick-ing robot, popularly used for Picking solution for ware-house. This solution ensures high picking accuracy and is VANTAGE POINTSangeet Kumar
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