COPENHAGEN: In contrast to some other countries, where robots perform a large proportion of the manual labour, 76 percent of Danish manufacturing companies don’t use industrial robots. This is the result of a new survey by the Danish technological institute Teknologisk Institut (TI).
The survey also showed that more than half of the companies believed that robotic solutions for their particular production processes didn’t exist. But Kurt Nielsen, the head of the centre for robot technology at TI, said the companies were often just oblivious to the possibilities.
“The companies are often mistaken because they don’t know the technological possibilities,” he said. “Robot technology is developing very quickly and the companies might have overlooked technological possibilities that can improve their productivity and competitiveness.”
