The town of Odense, in Denmark, is greatest often known as the location the place King Canute, Denmark’s final Viking king, was murdered through the eleventh century. At the moment, Odense it’s additionally house to greater than 150 robotics, automation, and drone firms. It’s significantly famend for collaborative robots, or cobots—these designed to work alongside people, typically in an industrial setting.
Odense’s robotics success has its roots within the extra conventional business of shipbuilding. In the course of the ‘90s, the Mærsk transport firm funded the creation of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute (MMMI), a middle devoted to autonomous techniques 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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