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Study Humanoid Robotics Offers the Industry These Prospects

Source: Fraunhofer IPA | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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European industry can benefit from humanoid robotics. But to do so, it needs to tap into new markets.

The production of hardware components for humanoid robots offers great market potential.(Image: Fraunhofer IPA)
The production of hardware components for humanoid robots offers great market potential.
(Image: Fraunhofer IPA)

Together with the P3 Group, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA has investigated the opportunities for European component manufacturers arising from the production of hardware for humanoid robots. According to a press release, the results of the white paper "The Humanoid Hardware Value Chain: Can the European Manufacturing Industry Capitalize on the Humanoid Momentum?" show that hardware in particular plays a key role in the cost-effectiveness and scalability of these systems.

While software and AI are currently the focus of public attention, mechanical and mechatronic components play a key role in determining the performance of humanoid robots. However, actuators, gears, batteries and sensors often do not yet fully meet industrial requirements in terms of robustness, service life and cost structure, according to the researchers. There is also a lack of standardized hardware architectures.

According to the study, this opens up new market opportunities for the European manufacturing industry. Companies with expertise in automation, mechatronics and industrial production could enter the emerging value chain at an early stage and thus benefit from the expected growth. In order to assess the market potential, the authors analyzed the hardware value chain for sensors, actuators and structural and energy systems and developed a bottom-up cost model for various humanoid robot scenarios.

The analysis shows that hardware costs make up a significant proportion of the total costs, especially for technically sophisticated systems. Flexible robot hands, which have to meet high requirements in terms of precision, robustness and costs, are currently regarded as a particularly critical bottleneck.

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