STORY: A glimpse of cutting-edge industrial technologies at ongoing Hannover Messe 2024
SHOOTING TIME: April 23-24, 2024
DATELINE: April 25, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:43
LOCATION: HANNOVER, Germany
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Hannover Messe 2024
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MAXIMILIAN SIEGHARDT, Digital consultant of MotorSkins
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): STEFAN ZETZSCH, Co-founder of Hydrabyte
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MATTHEW KEEVER, FAE Solution engineer
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): HU TIANLIAN, Chairman of DFRobot

STORYLINE:

Hannover Messe 2024, Germany's leading industrial trade fair, kicked off on Monday.
   
The exhibition, focused on "energizing a sustainable industry," runs until Friday and has attracted almost 4,000 exhibitors from approximately 60 countries and regions. Chinese exhibitors accounted for 30 percent of participants, second only to the host country of Germany.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MAXIMILIAN SIEGHARDT, Digital consultant of MotorSkins
"This is MotorSkins, a Berlin-based startup. And MotorSkins, they work in the field of fluid robotics and haptics. So it's basically a form of textile robotic where you have either gas like oxygen going through the fibers and if you press down and increase the pressure, then it works almost like muscles basically. It's been used in several different capacities, not just in digital health, but also in the field of automotive for the interior of the car maybe, and basically everything with textiles."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): STEFAN ZETZSCH, Co-founder of Hydrabyte
"What you see here is our demonstrators. It's a proof of concept of our technology, which allows us to control multiple robots in one or the same working space. So these robots will be given random target points and they won't hit each other by going there. So what you normally do is to program your robot point by point to define a certain path. That won't be necessary with our technology. With our technology, you only have to define the job or the target point they have to move to. That's it. So it's a no-code robot movement solution. Our first application will be multi-robot bin picking. We will be able to do it by two, three, four, ten, you name it, many robots to spin up the process and be way more effective."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MATTHEW KEEVER, FAE Solution engineer
"This is showing off how device-wise IoT (Internet of Things) platform integrates into industrial torque tools. We've taken the concept of being able to show what we do every day in automotive and heavy industries of monitoring, programming the different torque values, the access thresholds and the waveform data, combining that information with AI visual inspection systems and then using our visualization platform to tie everything together. So, this main need is for quality control inspection and consistent reliability for automotive tiring, seat fastenings and then for component assemblies as well."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): HU TIANLIAN, Chairman of DFRobot
"This 1.6-meter-high robot weighs only 43 kilograms. It has extensive flexibility, which is capable of performing most of all human actions. The targeted application of our robot is in the fields of elderly care and unmanned retail service."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hannover, Germany.
(XHTV)