It’s been a big year for us here at Veo Robotics! Here’s what happened in 2022: FreeMove® 2.0 Engine First and foremost, we recently launched our redesigned FreeMove® 2.0 Engine. Our new and improved Engine is a high-performance industrial computer with a proprietary safety architecture that works alongside our FreeMove Sensors to monitor workcells in 3D. Its adds support for complex applications and harsh environments as human-robot collaboration on facility floors increases. With congested and busy production floors, manufacturers typically have FreeMove supporting workcells that are overlap ..read more

By Patrick Toner, Director of Product Marketing, Veo Robotics  The transformative potential of automation has been pushed into the forefront these past two years. It's been a saving grace for many industries like hospitality and healthcare, whose operations were dramatically upended by the Covid-19 pandemic. And now, as these industries and others continue to battle a historic labor shortage, automation technology enables them to get work done even when they’re short on human talent. Perhaps no industry stands to gain more from automation in the short term than the warehousing sector. Fo ..read more

Overview The use of robotics and automation within the manufacturing industry has experienced significant growth over the last few years. North American industrial robot sales had their strongest year ever in 2021, according to A3, and global robot purchases are expected to increase to $31B by 2028. In the shadow of a waning pandemic and in the face of persistent supply chain issues, unprecedented labor shortages, and inflation, manufacturers continue to recognize the urgency to automate their operations. The need for new technological solutions to these manufacturing and logistics headwinds h ..read more

By Alberto Moel (Vice President Strategy and Partnerships)  Welcome back, dear reader, to one more installment of the Veo Robotics blog. For a while now, we have been discussing the nuts and bolts of human-robot collaboration, what it looks like in practice, how guarding can improve interaction, issues with reported robot stopping performance data, and metrics on figuring out how collaborative a robot can be.      Threaded through our discussion is the fact that how quick or responsive (and how collaborative) a robot is will depend on two parameters intrinsic to t ..read more

By Alberto Moel (Vice President Strategy and Partnerships) Welcome back, dear reader, to a follow-on discussion on how “fencelessness” and collaborative robotics aren’t necessarily the ideal mix. In Part 1 we reviewed how, depending on robot speed and stopping times, a truly “fenceless” collaborative application may require an uneconomically large workcell area for safe operation. This large workcell area is needed as a buffer zone between the robot and an approaching human so that the robot can slow down and stop safely before the human arrives. Our proposal in Part 1 was that the judicious u ..read more

  By Alberto Moel (Vice President Strategy and Partnerships) and Clara Vu (CTO / co-founder), Veo Robotics In recent months, flexibility in manufacturing has been top of mind. To keep pace with market needs, manufacturing must become more flexible to continuously adapt to change, especially during a crisis like the current one. Although the press and industry have picked up the topic recently, the need for flexibility in factories has been an ongoing concern and issue for manufacturing engineers for quite some time. A powerful way to introduce flexibility in factories is by simultaneously ..read more

By Patrick Sobalvarro (co-founder and CEO), Clara Vu (co-founder and CTO), Scott Denenberg (co-founder and VP Engineering), Veo Robotics “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”   Dr. Martin Luther King On May 25th, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers.  It’s common these days for corporate leaders to issue statements about current events, and at Veo Robotics we’ve avoided this practice, because our business is computer ..read more

It’s been a big year for us here at Veo Robotics! Here’s what happened in 2021: First and foremost, we received our ISO certification from TÜV Rheinland and announced the launch of FreeMove®, our safety-rated, production-ready 3D safeguarding system for human-robot collaboration. Created with the mission of addressing the limitations of current manufacturing technology, Veo is adding intelligence and perception to industrial robots so that humans and robots can work together productively, safely, and comfortably. FreeMove can be utilized in a wide range of applications including manufacturing ..read more

By Patrick Toner, Director of Product Marketing, Veo Robotics This month, we’re excited to kick off our Employee Spotlight Series. Once per quarter, we’ll be highlighting two to three members of the Veo team who bring unique talent, experience, and an inspiring attitude to work every day.  Meet Jerry Schneider, Studio Team Lead and Principal Software Engineer I, and Valentina Chamorro, Senior Hardware Engineer. Jerry leads the software engineering team that’s responsible for building FreeMove® Studio, the software suite for configuration and real-time visualization of system data, while V ..read more

By Molly McCarthy, Chief Commercial Officer, Veo Robotics Our mission at Veo has been focused on improving manufacturing flexibility by reducing the cost and complexity of human-robot collaboration. We’ve made steps to get here through the unveiling of our flagship product FreeMove®, a safety-certified comprehensive 3D safeguarding system that implements dynamic speed and separation monitoring to allow safe and effective human-robot collaboration. With FreeMove, manufacturers are able to combine the strength, speed, and power of standard industrial robots, with the flexibility, judgement, and ..read more