The town of Odense, in Denmark, is finest often called the positioning the place King Canute, Denmark’s final Viking king, was murdered throughout the eleventh century. At present, Odense it’s additionally house to greater than 150 robotics, automation, and drone firms. It’s notably 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 trade of shipbuilding. Through the ‘90s, the Mærsk transport 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 based mostly in a metropolis that, although the third-largest in Denmark, is undeniably small on the worldwide scale. Learn the complete story.
—Victoria Turk
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