Our new Home Racer, an autonomously driving robot, has been created in the course of our Summer Camp 2017. The project’s goal was to create a robot that can navigate autonomously in a known but changing environment in order to make it ready for a potential daily use. As a first step, the robot [...]

The smart4i Demonstrator makes Industrie 4.0 tangible and shows that even today, manufacturing processes can be made Industrie-4.0-compatible by efficient use and combination of technological components. With the smart4i Demonstrator, customers have the chance to order an individualized power bank. Color, wrapping, and label can be adapted to the customer’s personal preferences and wishes. The order is processed immediately by the Demonstrator, [...]

With a little few words more, it is a machine, that uses the newest, state of the art technology of the automation industry. We show our interpretation to a modern Industry 4.0 machine. It is divided into seperate, intelligent modules, each connected with Ethernet over OPC UA. We use automation hardware from Beckhoff, B&R, [...]