TECH & AI

reliability achieved by the HMND 01 Alpha robot in fully autonomous pick-and-place tasks

for a team of UR10 robots to sand an entire vehicle body

Keeping the robot lightweight is a challenge when it needs lots of information, so the companies looked into sharing detailed maps created by self-driving vehicles with Digit. If the robot were to encounter an unexpected obstacle, it could send an image back to the vehicle, where a solution can be configured.

Cobots in Ford factories Collaborative robots, known as cobots, have been integrated across Ford’ s assembly lines to work directly alongside humans. At its Cologne plant in Germany, cobots were installed in 2019 to sand the body surface of Ford Fiestas.

84 June 2026