Manufacturing is one of the UK’s success stories. With an output valued at £224bn, we are now the eighth largest manufacturing nation in the world. But our position is vulnerable unless we significantly increase our level of automation.
David Keene, CEO of Aurrigo International, talks to DPA Magazine about the way autonomous technology, born in Coventry, is changing the way baggage and cargo are transported around the world’s airports.
Smaller manufacturers are the fastest-growing area of industrial robotics today, driven by the need for new collaborative robotics systems.
Robot installations hit a record 553,052 units globally in 2022, according to the International Federation of Robotics. That’s up an extra five percent on the previous record-breaking year.