Techman Robot is collaborating with NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim platform to develop digital twin that enhance the efficiency of robot production line inspection. This collaboration aims to reduce robot programming time by 70% and cycle time by 20%, resulting in significant time and cost savings. Digital twin provides robust support for collaborative robots by virtually modeling their behavior and working environment. By accurately simulating the perception and actions of collaborative robots, they can be tested, optimized, and algorithmically improved within a virtual workspace, bringing about transformative changes across various industries.

Techman Robot is redefining the next generation of collaborative robots with its AI-enabled TM AI Cobot. Its standout feature lies in its built-in intelligent vision and AI capabilities, enabling precise recognition and defect detection. In a recent demonstration video showcased in collaboration with NVIDIA, Techman Robot employed its own robots for assembly and inspection tasks, leveraging AOI (Automated Optical Inspection) technology. Throughout the development process, they utilized Isaac Sim, a robot simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse, for testing. They also utilized NVIDIA AI and GPU for cloud-based training and inference on the robots themselves.

Techman Robot’s AOI solution distinguishes itself by directly mounting inspection cameras on robotic arms and incorporating GPUs into robot controllers. This setup allows for multi-angle detection of areas beyond the reach of fixed cameras and utilizes AI for quality inspection. According to Techman Robot’s COO, Scott Huang, “Techman Robot stands out among other robot brands due to its built-in vision system and AI inference engine. NVIDIA RTX GPUs have greatly enhanced their AI capabilities.”

Through their collaboration with NVIDIA, Techman Robot is creating digital twin to optimize design structures, test work tasks and environmental conditions, simulate work performance and processes, and redefine AI collaborative robots, bringing innovative reforms to various industries.

Techman Robot Inc cooperated with Phoenix Contact, Festo, and Taichung City Education Bureau to establish the Taichung Smart Manufacturing Technology Education Center.

Techman Robot, the second largest collaborative robot brand in the world, will showcase the newly upgraded TM Robot S and smart manufacturing solutions at Automate. The upgraded TM Robot S will have comprehensive hardware and software enhancements; smarter integration with vision and peripheral software, more intuitive human-machine interface, and safer human-machine collaboration, suitable for a variety of industrial applications, and fully realizing smart manufacturing.

Techman Robot will be launching the newly upgraded TM Robot S series. This series has enhanced the safety of human-machine collaboration over the current models. It has passed European and American safety certifications and has the industry’s most advanced collaborative arm with 31 safety certifications, the highest in the industry. In response to various industrial applications, Techman Robot has upgraded the dust and water resistance level of the S series and launched a newly developed robot teach pendent to make teaching and deploying robots easier and faster. In addition to hardware upgrades, Techman Robot’s innovative human-machine interface- TMflow has been completely revised and upgraded to version 2.0, providing a more intuitive operating experience. In addition, more powerful offline programming software can be used for application path simulation and cycle time calculation. TM Robot S series have both new software and hardware upgrades to quickly assist customers in creating collaborative robot solutions for various needs.

In addition to upgrade collaborative robot series, Techman Robot said “we keep developing total solutions to help enterprises and closing the gap for every business such as welding application.” It helps users to meet the welding needs of different shaped workpieces, and is compatible with the well-known welding companies OTC and Panasonic. It can be controlled directly through the robot interface and is no longer limited by the traditional way of using welding robots. It can provide visual assisted positioning function and uses hand guiding to teach welding on points and tracks intuitively and quickly, offering global system integration suppliers the possibility of using TM robots to develop more welding applications.

Looking upon 2022, Techman Robot is optimistic on the development of automation and will continue to build up distributors on semiconductor, electronics, welding, food & beverage and Automotive fields to jointly explore US market. With Smart vision, fully upgraded collaborative robot, Techman Robot will assist the enterprises to the future of smart manufacturing.

Techman Robot made a grand comeback at iREX to showcase manufacturing applications of human-robot collaboration, rapid integration with palletizing and welding operators, and cobot integration with AI vision. The upgraded TM Robot S will launch soon, this new series will have comprehensive hardware and software enhancements, a smarter integration with vision and peripheral software, a more intuitive human-machine interface, and safer human-machine collaboration, suitable for a variety of industrial applications, and is ready to fulfill your needs of smart manufacturing. 

TM AI+ is an AI vision solution developed by Techman Robot, it is a software that can be used not only alone but also with the built-in vision system of TM Robot, which has evolved into an intelligent collaborative robot with AI recognition. TM AI+ is the cobot industry’s first integration of traditional machine and advanced AI vision in a single robotic system, it can help solve problems including vision recognition, barcode reading, OCR, image classification, and assembly. It is currently used in the quality control of Japanese automobile manufacturers, and it is also implemented in the product identification of pizza and fried chicken chains. From automobile to food applications, TM AI+ can be applied in a wide range of industries.

In addition to the original collaborative robot series, Techman Robot said, we continue to develop total solutions to help close the automation gap for every business, such as the welding operator. Techman Robot’s exclusive welding operator interface helps users meet their welding needs of different shaped workpieces and is compatible with the well-known welding companies OTC and Panasonic. It can be controlled directly through the robot interface and is no longer limited by the traditional way of using welding robots. It can provide visual assisted positioning function and uses hand guiding to teach welding on points and tracks intuitively and quickly, offering Japan and global system integration suppliers the possibility of using TM Robots to develop more welding applications.

Techman Robot is launching the newly upgraded TM Robot S series in April 2022. This series has enhanced the safety of human-machine collaboration over the current models. It has passed European and American safety certifications and is the industry’s most advanced collaborative arm with 31 safety certifications, the highest in the industry. In response to various industrial applications, Techman Robot has upgraded the dust and water resistance level of the S series and launched a newly developed robot teach pendent to make teaching and deploying robots easier and faster, and more hardware upgrades will be announced in April. In addition to hardware upgrades, Techman Robot’s innovative human-machine interface, TMFlow, has been completely revised and upgraded to version 2.0, providing a more intuitive operating experience. In addition, a powerful offline programming software can be used for application path simulation and cycle time calculation. TM Robot S series have both new software and hardware upgrades to quickly assist customers in creating collaborative robot solutions for various needs.

According to Japan Robot Association (ARA), the post-epidemic era has driven automation transformation, and the demand for automation is growing in Europe, the United States, and Japan. In 2021, Japan’s industrial robot orders will increase by 29.6% year-on-year to 940.5 billion yen, showing growth for the second consecutive year. Techman Robot is optimistic about the development of automation and will continue to build up distributors and system integrators, and expand its sales network to 25 partners in Japan. In the second half of 2022, Techman Robot will establish a Japanese technical service department to assist Japanese customers to quickly deal with implementation and after-sales service.

Looking upon 2022, Techman Robot will release newly upgraded TM Robot S, and continue to recruit system integrators on semiconductor, electronics, and welding fields to jointly explore the Japanese market. With AI vision, and an intelligent factory management system, Techman Robot will assist the enterprises to the future of smart manufacturing. For more information, please visit www.tm-robot.com

Compared to other industries, the level of automation in the automotive industry is much higher. Collaborative robots that can be flexibly applied to a small-volume large-variety production line, focus on human-robot collaboration and facilitate smart manufacturing are emerging. The latest report of Kenneth Research predicts that the shipment and sales revenue brought by collaborative robots in the automotive industry will increase by 43% every year by 2022.

The well-known Japanese car manufacturer adopts Techman Robot to process the final quality check of all detailed assembly inspections. Techman Robot helped the customer to install the “next-generation smart inspection system” utilizing a customized stand including‍ four Techman collaborative robots. Besides the built-in smart vision, 36 external front and rear cameras were also installed. Moreover, each collaborative robot is equipped with three types of lenses, including short, middle and long. The Japanese car manufacturer mentioned that among their global production lines, this is the only one using the automated optical inspection (AOI) system and AI smart inspection solution. The ceiling-mounted arm can move inside/outside the car elastically to execute all of the quality-checking items.

Since the quality inspection focus on components and items on a very detailed level, standard robotic vision might not be enough to point out all of the defects. That’s where TM AI+, Techman Robot’s own developed AI function, comes in handy. Massive sample pictures of the goods are gathered, and fed into TM AI+ training server to generate a deep-learning model which is capable of identifying all of the defects or incorrect components. The model will be imported into the robot arms and combined with robot vision to perform quality checking on items such as checking the color of the logo, the plastic film of the wheel, the type of the dashboard, or even the texture of the seats.

The leading Japanese car manufacturer commented that TMflow, the innovative and user-friendly interface of Techman Robot, allows the well-trained insider to quickly program based on different car types or demands without asking the system integrator to come to the factory, and thus achieves a significant reduction of time, manpower and cost. Meanwhile, the built-in smart vision allows the customer to record all inspection data more efficiently to improve quality and implement data archiving and traceability which cannot be realized by manual inspection.

Since 2018, Techman Robot has become an officially approved supplier of “Continental,” another world-famous manufacturer in the automotive industry, and started to improve the automated process in its signature factory located in Budapest, Hungary. This factory mainly produces telematics control units (TCU) for car manufacturers. Techman Robot not only optimized the pick and place application but also enabled the customer to save the cost of installing a third-party camera with built-in smart vision. Moreover, the customer could also swiftly copy the program to different stations through “TM Landmark” to significantly reduce the time of training a collaborative robot to recognize the position and object. The “Plug and Play” gripper can run tests quickly to reflect the project’s performance in time. Techman robot, with the built-in smart vision, is the best choice to meet the smart manufacturing demand of highly flexible production in the automotive industry.

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