{"id":165709,"date":"2019-02-14T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=165709"},"modified":"2019-02-14T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:35:30","slug":"smart-robotics-copal-and-rethink-robotics-among-the-top-5-in-global-list-of-600-robotics-companies-for-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/smart-robotics-copal-and-rethink-robotics-among-the-top-5-in-global-list-of-600-robotics-companies-for-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Robotics, Copal and Rethink Robotics among the top-5 in global list of 600 robotics companies for logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of 600 worldwide selected robotics companies within the logistics sector, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-robotics.nl\/?lang=en\">Smart Robotics<\/a> belongs to the top-5. This is shown by an analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startus-insights.com\/about\/\">Startus Insights<\/a>, a global organisation specialising in research into the growth of innovative companies. Smart Robotics also scores high in the total logistics sector: Startus mentions the Eindhoven-based company here as one of the eight companies (out of a total of 40,000 startups that are active in this sector worldwide) that &#8220;need to be watched&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?s=%22Smart+Robotics%22\">Smart Robotics is a former winner of the Gerard and Anton Awards<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copalhandlingsystems.com\/\">Copal<\/a> from &#8216;s Heerenberg and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rethinkrobotics.com\/\">Rethink Robotics<\/a> from Rheinb\u00f6llen (between Koblenz and Mainz, the company has been owned by the Hahn Group since the end of 2018) are among the top 5.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-165700\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Robotics_in_Logistics_Heatmap_StartUsInsights-noresize-1024x748.jpg\" alt=\"Smart Robotics\" width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When choosing the top 5 robotics companies in logistics, Startus used &#8220;a data-driven scouting approach&#8221; and a group of international specialists to identify the most relevant companies and applications worldwide. Smart Robotics came on the list because of their &#8220;Pick &amp; Place&#8221; robots, one of the two main markets for the company. Startus: &#8220;Precise robotics movements have enabled manufacturers to build highly secure pick-and-place robots that work effectively in assembly lines. Sorting products, loading products onto machines, quality control and packaging are the main responsibilities of such robots. &#8216;<em>Smart, safe and simple&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0Smart Robotics uses the third dimension to enable complicated and accurate order picking and placement movements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to logistics, where the company works closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/nl\/vanderlande-verwerft-aandeel-smart-robotics\/\">Vanderlande<\/a>, Smart Robotics also focuses on packaging, including in the food industry. The Smart Robotics palletizer has also recently been nominated for the BOLD Awards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-165699\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ioplus.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Logistics-Innovation-Map-StartUs-Insights-1280-720-noresize-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Smart Robotics\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/> In one of the eight subcategories within the logistics sector (Robotics), Smart Robotics is the company &#8220;to-watch-out-for&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main picture \u00a9 BOLD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of 600 worldwide selected robotics companies within the logistics sector, Smart Robotics belongs to the top-5. This is shown by an analysis of Startus Insights, a global organisation specialising in research into the growth of innovative companies. Smart Robotics also scores high in the total logistics sector: Startus mentions the Eindhoven-based company here as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":510425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[31300,31302,31304,31306,31308,27988,31310,31312],"location":[6763],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-165709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-bolt","tag-copal","tag-hahn-group","tag-mark-menting-en","tag-rethink-robotics","tag-smart-robotics-en","tag-startus","tag-vanderlande-en","location-netherlands"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart 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