Delta at Automation Taipei 2025:
Smart Manufacturing for Glocalization and AI Cognitive Cobot Take the Spotlight

Delta’s Industrial Automation Business Group (IABG) showcased AI-Enabled Smart Manufacturing at Automation Taipei 2025 from August 20 to 23. Featuring AI-driven and cyber-physical integration solutions, Delta addressed the challenges and opportunities of the trend towards glocalization. Among the exhibits, Delta’s Collaborative Robot (Cobot) integrates the AI Cognitive Module, which made its Asia debut, to achieve intuitive interaction through voice commands. The Cyber-Physical Integration Smart Manufacturing Demo Line illustrated how factory-level data synchronization and digital twin enable distributed manufacturing and centralized management.

At a media gathering on August 20, Delta provided an in-depth tour of its solutions for robotics, electronics assembly, and warehousing & logistics. “The dynamic landscapes of supply chains and manufacturing sites, combined with the surging demand for AI, has made Taiwan the pivotal hub of technology and talent in global markets,” remarked Andy Liu, general manager of IABG, “We see surging demand for remote deployment and faster production cycles. To counter labor shortages, smart manufacturing is essential for unlocking productivity. Delta’s cyber-physical integration smart manufacturing architecture mobilizes 30-year domain expertise to deliver distributed manufacturing with centralized management for glocalized smart factories.”

Delta also hosted a series of seminars on production and management digitization, which included the Delta Solution Day on 8/22 that explored how smart manufacturing strengthens company resilience. Throughout their digital transformation journey, companies face simultaneous challenges at different levels, including legacy equipment without connectivity, line-level integration and balance analysis, as well as complex systems and circulation in warehouses.

“We have leveraged AI to develop smart assistants for parameter optimization, highly precise visual inspection and auditing, and high-fidelity digital twins to refine production line design,” noted Ian Yang, R&D director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Development Department. “Built on our experience of digitization, we provide total solutions covering equipment and line upgrades, system connectivity, and cyber-physical integration. By converting industry know-how into modular designs and solution packs, we help customers gain measurable results from advanced technologies.”

Delta Highlights at Automation Taipei 2025:

• Robotics Accelerating Smart Automation: For human-robot collaboration applications such as warehouses and electronics assembly, Delta’s AI Cognitive Module empowers its Cobots to interact with natural language, performing tasks such as pick-and-place and stacking without programming. For complex workflows, just drag and drop the modules for motion control and logic to complete programming, which significantly reduces development efforts. The High-Precision Electronics Insertion & Assembly Solution features the Modular Robot RS-M and Electric Gripper RS-GP, utilizing real-time force feedback to stably handle fragile components such as chips and semiconductors. With its lightweight, modular design, the RS-M Robot also enables flexible and rapid deployment.

• Cyber-Physical Integration Smart Manufacturing: Responding to the trend of glocalization, Delta leverages smart equipment as intelligent hubs connected to IIoT and management systems to achieve factory-level data synchronization. Combining with digital twin technology, the architecture achieves distributed manufacturing and centralized management. The Cyber-Physical Integration Demo Line combines Delta’s Cobot, Smart Inserter, and the Reconfigurable Transformer Machine (RTM) for Glue Dispensing, all orchestrated by the Inline Management Solution Line Manager, which connects the IT/OT layers. The Cobot identifies incoming materials to inform Line Manager to switch recipes for fast changeovers and mixed production. Meanwhile, the Virtual Machine Development Platform DIATwin generates and validates recipes offline, which are then updated by Line Manager to equipment for real-time deployment across sites.

• Machine Vision and Connectivity for Smart Warehousing & Logistics: Delta’s advanced 3D ToF and 2D machine vision solutions lay a solid foundation for smart automation. The RGB-D ToF Camera DMV-TM combines high-precision 3D depth sensing with 2D color imaging for accurate object recognition and positioning. The time of flight technology allows stackers, AMRs, and automated forklifts to operate smoothly even in a darker environment. The automated devices are stably connected to the IIoT via the AI-Enabled Enterprise WLAN Solution, which intelligently optimizes WiFi access point connections and ensures uninterrupted connectivity even while in motion.