Revolutionary Innovation in Industrial Automation and Robotics
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Revolutionary Innovation

Our commitment starts where traditional solutions no longer offer results: flexible programming of robots on the job, cost-effective solutions for emerging markets, manipulation of low volume or varying goods. Read more...

Logistics

We integrate robotic solutions with your existing systems according to industrial standards and maintain them as desired. We specialize in fenceless robotics for automatic goods handling of internal logistics. Read more...

Vision on Robotics

We use light-weight robots with enabling technologies such as online motion planning, force control and programming by demonstration for high-end and critical systems. Read more...

News

We're at Automatica@Munich 2012 !
March 1, 2012

Intermodalics will show it's 3D localisation and gripping applications at the Automatica trade fair in Munich, from May 22-25 at the EUnited booth nbr 528 in Hall B3.

We will show a non-stop running demo of a fenceless, safe robot locating and manipulating various cardboard boxes in a very limited space. Visitors are invited to put down boxes, grab them from the robot or obstruct the robot. This allows you to observe the safety mechanisms demonstrated and the robustness of the application as the robot continues once the environment is safe again.

Additionally, our crew can show you movies and other material of new fenceless automation systems. These systems allow you to automate goods handling in a very limited space and with minimal adoptions to your current infrastructure, effectively allowing personnel to move around the workspace.

Intermodalics Builds ITER Remote Handling Simulator
November 2, 2011

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Intermodalics has been awarded, together with remote handling specialist Oxford Technologies (UK), a contract to build the first Remote Handling simulator for the ITER Fusion Reactor.

ITER requires very reliable and robust remote handling techniques to manipulate and exchange components weighing up to 50 tons. The reliability of these techniques will also impact the length of the machine's shut-down phases.

Intermodalics know-how in robotics middlewares, communication protocols and controller frameworks will help to select, design and build the necessary parts for a demonstrator system. This system simulates various robotized tasks around the reactor and serves to evaluate the selected technologies and make them available to the actual system builders.

Intermodalics demonstrates box bin-picking
October 7, 2011
For the EU funded ECHORD project, Intermodalics and its partner KU Leuven completed a first milestone in fully automatic bin-picking of cardboard boxes of various weights.


The robot in the movie is the KUKA Light Weight Robot (LWR), weighing 15kg and capable of lifting 7.5kg at tooltip. The position and force control of this robot is completely done by the Intermodalics Industrial Controller (IIC).The IIC is robot-independent and can be used to interface other industrial robots and sensors as well.

This movie is a work-in-progress demo and not an endpoint in the development of this application. Engineers at Intermodalics are confident to extend it to a multi-robot, palletizing application by the first quarter of 2012.

(c) 2011 Intermodalics BVBA