COMAU North America Business Development Manager Alejandro Alvarez on advanced collaborate robotics for multiple industries.
This episode of Manufacturing the Future is brought to you by the Italian Trade Agency via its Machines Italia project.
We live in an age of robotics, and although humanoid, consumer focused machines are everywhere in popular culture, the real sweet spot for robotic automation is in industrial and commercial applications. European firms are at the cutting edge of this technology, and a particular center of excellence is Italy, where advanced manufacturing robotics has been in daily use for decades.
Like in America, the Italian auto industry were early adopters and Turin-based COMAU has taken this experience and expanded into a wide range of machines and served industries that range from shipbuilding to packaging. Engineering.com’s Jim Anderton spoke about advancement in robotics with Alejandro Alvarez, Business Development Manager, North America for COMAU.
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