Source: AMTManufacturing tech company Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) has developed a portable robotic automation workstation for the manufacturing space.

The flexible, collaborative and customizable robot system, called Jobhopper, is fenceless, which enables human operators to work alongside the system in the manufacturing space as it accomplishes a variety of tasks including pick-and-place, inspection and machine tending applications among others.

"As manufacturing returns to the U.S. through the recent reshoring trend, the market for collaborative automation has exploded," said President and CEO Michael Jacobs. "AMT has been receiving many requests to provide flexible, portable collaborative automation to manufacturers in a variety of industries. We developed jobHopper to fill this need, which has been increasingly requested by our customers."

To learn more about the Jobhopper collaborative robot appliance, visit Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT).