Abb Robot Thailand
Cyndi Barca
Instead of shelf-based storage and manual retrieval, AutoStore employs a cube-based modular storage system using state-of-the-art robots to provide retailers with a solution that accelerates order fulfillment, maximizes warehouse space, and improves operational efficiency.
The new factory is the latest effort by the company to better serve the North American market. The news comes on the heels of the opening of its new U.S. headquarters in the greater Boston region and the expansion of several key customer partnerships including with leading U.S.-based medical supply leader Medline.
AutoStore was founded in Nedre Vats, on the west coast of Norway. The company has offices in Norway, the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, as well as assembly facilities in Poland.
We were there in the middle of the week and it was mostly empty. I think this might be due to its location. I hope it does better business at lunch and on weekends. It would be really fun with a big crowd laughing and cheering.
There are actually 2 robots, the other being on an identical track set-up across the room. It has a slightly different costume. I wonder if they have the robots do a dance-off when there are enough people there? That would be awesome.
The Robot Building (Thai: ตึกหุ่นยนต์, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-smallfont-size:85%.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-smallfont-size:100%Thai pronunciation: [tɯk̚.hun.jon], RTGS: tuek hun yon), located in the Sathorn business district of Bangkok, Thailand, houses United Overseas Bank's Bangkok headquarters. It was designed for the Bank of Asia by Sumet Jumsai to reflect the computerization of banking; its architecture is a reaction against neoclassical and high-tech postmodern architecture. The building's features, such as progressively receding walls, antennas, and eyes, contribute to its robotic appearance and to its practical function. Completed in 1986, the building is one of the last examples of modern architecture in Bangkok.
Thai architect Sumet Jumsai designed the Robot Building for the Bank of Asia, which was acquired by United Overseas Bank in 2005.[1][3] He had been asked by the Bank of Asia's directors to design a building that reflected the modernization and computerization of banking[1][4] and found inspiration in his son's toy robot.[5]
Sumet designed the building in conscious opposition to postmodern styles of the era, particularly classical revivalism and high-tech architecture as embodied in the Centre Pompidou.[6] While Sumet praised the inception of postmodernism as a protest against puritanical, bland modern design, he called it "a protest movement which seeks to replace without offering a replacement".[7] Sumet dismissed mid-1980s classical revivalism as "intellectual[ly] bankrupt[]" and criticized the "catalogue[s] of meaningless architectural motifs" that characterized classical revivalism in Bangkok.[7] He further dismissed high-tech architecture, "which engrosses itself in the machine while at the same time secretly...lov[ing]...handmade artifacts and honest manual labor", as a movement without a future.[8]
Sumet wrote that his building "need not be a robot" and that a "host of other metamorphoses" would suffice, so long as they could "free the spirit from the present intellectual impasse and propel it forward into the next century".[7] He wrote that his design might be considered post-high-tech: rather than exhibiting the building's inner workings, he chose to adorn a finished product with the abstractions of mechanical parts.[9] His building, he argued, struck against the 20th century vision of the machine as a "separate entity" often "elevated on a pedestal for worship" and, by becoming "a part of our daily lives, a friend, ourselves", cleared the way for the 21st century amalgam of machine and man.[8]
The building is 20 stories tall and has a total floor area of 23,506 m (253,016 ft).[1][3] The floor areas decrease progressively at the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 18th floors; the staggered shape both contributes to the robot's appearance and is an efficient solution to setback regulations requiring an 18 degree incline from each side of the property line.[14] The building's ground floor is a double-height banking hall.[15] The hall's interior architecture, designed in association with the firm 7 Associates, was designed to further the robotic appearance of the building; four sculptures by Thai artist Thaveechai Nitiprabha stand at the main door.[9] Mezzanine floors located on each side of the banking hall contain offices and meeting rooms.[15] The building's second floor features a large multipurpose hall, offices, and training rooms, and its upper floors contain general office space.[15] An eight-story parking garage is located behind the main building.[1]
The decorative exterior contributes its building's robotic appearance, though it often serves practical functions as well.[16] Two antennas on the building's roof are used for communications and as lightning rods.[15] On the building's upper facade, in front of the main meeting and dining rooms of the top executive suites, are two 6 m (20 ft) lidded eyeballs that serve as windows.[9] The eyeballs are made of reflective glass; the lids are made of metallic louvers.[9] Nuts made of glass-reinforced concrete adorn the building's sides; the building's largest nuts measure 3.8 m (12 ft) in diameter and were the largest in the world at the time of their construction.[9] The building's east and west walls (the robot's sides) have few apertures to shield its interior from the sun and to increase energy efficiency, and its north and south sides (the robot's front and back) are tinted curtain walls whose bright blue color was chosen because it was the symbol of the Bank of Asia.[1]
The Robot Building was selected by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles as one of the 50 seminal buildings of the century.[17] The building also earned Sumet an award from Chicago's Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, the first such award given to a Thai designer.[18] According to Stephen Sennott's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, the building "enhanced the world's recognition of modern Thai architecture".[19]
In the late-1970s, the Thai architect Sumet Jumsai was approached by the Bank of Asia. The bank was looking for a design for its new headquarters in Bangkok, something that would reflect the computerization of banking. For a long while, Sumet struggled to come up with a suitable design. But then his son walked into his study carrying a toy robot, and inspiration struck.
Completed in 1987 at a cost of US$10 million, the 20-story building was initially the tallest building in the major commercial district of Sathorn. And while it no longer dominates the skyline, it remains one of the most recognizable towers in the city.
MITSUBISHI MELFA industrial robot fits for cell manufacturing with high speed and high precision performance and combining intelligent technology,
It has easy connectivity with Mitsubishi's PLCs and FA equipments.
Kingdom of Thailand has incorporated seven units of the aunav.NEXT robot. Developed and manufactured entirely in Spain, its two synchronized arms make it unique on the market.
The customer, an active counter-terrorism unit, was also supplied with seven aunav.VAN command and control vehicles, the rapid intervention and transport unit developed to meet the needs of CBRN and explosive deactivation units.
This acquisition allows the counter-terrorism unit to neutralize possible threats in various southern provinces of the country. The aunav.NEXT robot combined with the aunav.VAN units enhance the ability of the customer to safely disable improvised explosive devices hidden in motorcycles or other vehicles.
The aunav.NEXT robot is developed in Spain in collaboration with bomb squad units. It is specifically designed for the deactivation of improvised explosives (IED), ammunition control (EOD), or CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) activities. It is an advanced system that effectively combines strength and dexterity thanks to its two synchronized arms, capable of lifting up to 250 kg.
The use of robots in place of human workers will become more widespread around the world in both the manufacturing and service sectors when labor shortage becomes a more pressing issue in an aging society. In the case of Thailand, a report from the Department of Provincial Administration, Ministry of Interior, indicates that 1 in 5 of the population, or approximately 13 million people, are already aged 60 years and over. Accordingly, jobs with safety risks such as carriers in the logistics business or workers in the production lines will need to rely more and more on robots.
In addition, service robots are widely used in the medical and healthcare industry. The application can be simple service tasks up to complex tasks that require high safety, such as Thailand's first nuclear medicine service robot. Another example is a collaboration between Chulalongkorn Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society and True Digital Group that results in robots that can assist in treating thyroid cancer. These robots help provide services to thyroid cancer patients with radioactive iodine while minimizing the amount of radiation that will be exposed directly to doctors and nurses during patient treatment.
Having seen the emerging opportunities in robotic welding and recognizing the enabling role of effective programming software, Golden Robot has become an authorized distributor of Robotmaster. Golden Robot is also an authorized distributor of OTC Daihen Robots. OTC Daihen Asia (OTC-DA) is one of the principle suppliers of advanced welding equipment, consumables and robots in Thailand as well as Southeast Asia, Middle East and Oceania.
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