Climate change is undoubtly the biggest challenge of our current time. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the global temperature has been rising rapidly (Earth Observatory offers some interesting graphs here). All in all, there has been a temperature increase of 1°C so far. The Paris Agreement from 2015 sets the goal of limiting further temperature increases to 0,5° at best and 1° as a maximum amount. However, when the progess was reviewed at the 2021 UN Climate Change … [Read more...] about Automation and Sustainability
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An Insight Look Into Our Integrated Software and Hardware Development at Sewts
At sewts, we automate processes that have never been automated before. Therefore, there’s a unique challenge in combining our software development with our hardware and process design efforts. Last year, we changed our development process to be more product-driven and to work around a few challenges we had been facing. In this insight article, we want to share the knowledge we’ve gained from our experiences with these modes of working. Our There are multiple challenges … [Read more...] about An Insight Look Into Our Integrated Software and Hardware Development at Sewts
Why We Chose Laundry Automation as the First Application for Our Robotics Software
We find ourselves explaining our first use case a lot. And that’s all good, since we do love seeing the moment when people realize that Industrial Laundry is actually a part of everyone’s life. So this is our explanation written down, hopefully giving you a deeper understanding of what we do as well as a glimpse into our product strategy. If you’ve read our page about our product strategy, you’ll know that our technology can work for many different use cases. We chose an approach of … [Read more...] about Why We Chose Laundry Automation as the First Application for Our Robotics Software
Building a Software Team in a Robotics Start-up
Even though our Head of Software Ernst has been with us for 9 months now, we have actually not yet introduced him on our media channels. So it's time to change that! We sat down for an interview with him and got some interesting insights into his view on sewts, our Software Development and goals for 2022. Hi Ernst, thank you for taking the time and talking to us. To start things off, ? Hi, my name is Ernst, I have a degree in computer science and have been with sewts for 9 months. Before … [Read more...] about Building a Software Team in a Robotics Start-up
A look back at 2021
As an exciting year for sewts is coming to an end, we want to take a look back at a few milestones that have taken place during the last 12 months. Let's get right into it! January and February 2021 – Our year 2021 started with some exciting tasks. With the knowledge that we would be testing our prototype in a running laundry soon, we tackled moving preparations. This was no easy feat considering we had to transport 2 industrial robots, 8 electrical motors, 4 grippers, 750 kg of aluminum … [Read more...] about A look back at 2021