Cowintech (CEOs Jaehwan Lee and Gapyong Jeong) , a leading company in secondary battery automation systems, announced that it has signed a contract worth 10 billion won with a major global battery company to supply autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for the front-end process of secondary batteries to North America.
Through this supply contract, Cowintech will supply AMRs for unmanned automation from the positive and negative electrode mixing process to the electrode roll-to-roll process and stacking process by May 2025.
With the recent rise in demand for smart factories and factory automation, the adoption of unmanned automated robots in manufacturing processes is accelerating. Ahead of this market shift, Cowintech has focused on developing automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for secondary battery manufacturing. Since 2021, the company has developed and supplied an automated guided vehicle (AGV) with roll loading/unloading capabilities for electrode processes (Direct Docking AGVs). Last year, the company successfully developed an AGV for the mixing process, which it is supplying to global battery companies.
The company explained that the AMR being supplied this time is equipped with SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) technology that implements a 3D map using a Lidar sensor, enabling flexible material transport, and that it also has the advantages of existing AGVs such as driving speed, material handling volume, and predictive maintenance functions, thereby increasing efficiency.
A Cowintech official stated, “This contract is significant in that it is the first mass production and supply contract since we developed an autonomous robot that goes beyond a simple transport robot and implements an optimized path based on AI and avoids obstacles in real time.” They added, “In addition to manufacturing customized robots for each customer’s process, we plan to establish a mass production system through the mass production platformization of AMRs and accelerate our market conquest by strengthening price competitiveness in the future.”
He continued, “As we are developing and supplying transport robots with various specifications, such as weight, precision transport, and driving speed, depending on the manufacturing process and transport items in the secondary battery field, we will expand the AMR robot business area to various industries such as semiconductors, displays, and automobiles and develop it as a new growth engine.”
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