The town of Odense, in Denmark, is greatest referred to as the location the place King Canute, Denmark’s final Viking king, was murdered throughout the eleventh century. Right this moment, Odense it’s additionally house to greater than 150 robotics, automation, and drone corporations. It’s significantly famend for collaborative robots, or cobots—these designed to work alongside people, usually in an industrial setting.
Odense’s robotics success has its roots within the extra conventional trade of shipbuilding. In the course of the ‘90s, the Mærsk delivery firm funded the creation of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute (MMMI), a middle devoted to autonomous methods that drew college students eager to check robotics. However there are challenges to being primarily based in a metropolis that, although the third-largest in Denmark, is undeniably small on the worldwide scale. Learn the total story.
—Victoria Turk
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