Siemens wants to further reduce the power consumption of
manufacturing robots in the automotive industry. One approach to this problems
deals with movement patterns that require less acceleration energy, as was
reported in the latest issue of the magazine "Pictures of the
Future". Working with Volkswagen and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft as part of
the Green Carbody Technologies (InnoCaT) innovation alliance, Siemens studied
the motion sequences of manufacturing robots