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漏 Rober Wengler

New centre pushes limits of industrial robotics

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New centre pushes limits of industrial robotics

漏 Rober Wengler

At the Centre for Large Structure Production (LSP), researchers, students and companies will develop robot technology for the production of very large structures for, for example, ships and wind turbines.

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