Impaqt Robotics Accelerating Deployment of Cobots
Published on : Sunday 07-07-2024
Impaqt Robotics is making products and solutions which are meant to accelerate the deployment of robots, says Anuj Bihani.
Universal Robot’s Collaborate INDIA 2024 event at Pune was the third event of its kind held in the Southeast Asia region, after Thailand and Malaysia. Impaqt Robotics has been part of all the three events and this time we decided to be the Diamond Sponsor over here because it happened in India.
At Impaqt Robotics we are making products and solutions which are meant to accelerate the deployment of robots. And all the products that we have made are very unique in the value propositions and interestingly a few of them are first of their kind in the world.
We have really innovated and tried to solve problems that integrators are living with, by a new approach, on how they can solve their problems. A lot of our problem solving is around the pneumatic and vacuum side of things, but we also have solutions for the packaging industry and palletizing. So Impaqt Robotics products are now gaining in popularity.
We are striving to be an Indian company who can take this global and we are engaging with distributors across the world, also participating in a lot of international events and exhibitions. We have already received a patent for one of our products and we have filed for a few more. We are also recipients of the Red Dot Design Awards – among the world’s largest design competitions – and pleased to say that we got the Red Dot award for two products in 2023 and one product in 2024. It probably makes us the only company from an engineering industry based out of India to have been able to get not just one, but three Red Dot awards and that too in two years, consecutively. So we're just enjoying what we're doing. We're trying to see how we can help Indian industry to be able to scale up. At the same time how we can take an Indian company to be a global player in the automation space.
The opportunity for MSMEs
Collaborative robots, especially those from Universal Robots, are extremely easy to deploy. If any MSME unit wants to be able to take a step forward they have to invest in such technologies. Let me rephrase this – at least they have to experiment with these technologies. What I mean to say is, if they buy one collaborative robot, the company is not going to go bust. But if they've got that, they can at least experiment to see what is possible and what is not possible. But the problem is the show stopper – right at the beginning everybody is only looking at the RoI and asking questions which are not really oriented towards a long-term kind of thinking.
So only if companies can just break out of the mould and say, hey, let's buy one and figure out the possibilities. It's almost like asking can I put a robotic vacuum cleaner in my house, or can I buy an EV, or maybe even a microwave oven. At first, almost everyone is wary about buying a microwave, saying no, we do not need it. But once they get it, there are many uses for it. So someone has to experiment with it. Only after they experiment with it, they can realise, oh, this works for us, or in a few cases, maybe this does not work for us. But they will not regret the decision of buying one. So MSMEs have to adopt this technology and once they do that, it can really accelerate the change they are looking for, to truly automate their processes.
Anuj Bihani, Founder – Impaqt Robotics and Alstrut India; and Founder President, Stanford Seed Transformation Network. Anuj is an entrepreneur with in-depth knowledge on deploying cobots (collaborative robots) and automation solutions in discrete manufacturing industries. He believes in creating an impact by enabling faster deployment of collaborative robots.
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