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Automation Taipei 2025 focuses on glocalized smart manufacturing
Delta AI cognitive Cobot captures the spotlight
Text by IABG 2025/10

Automation Taipei 2025 was held from August 20 to 23. Under the theme “AI-Enabled Smart Manufacturing”, Delta showcased a wide range of AI-driven and cyber-physical integration solutions, addressing 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 Industrial Automation Business Group General Manager Andy Liu (Right 2), EMEA's Senior Director for Industrial Automation Michael Mayer-Rosa (Left 2), Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Development Department R&D Director Ian Yang (Right 1) and Factory Automation Solution Business Division Director Peter Chen shared Delta's highlights at Automation Taipei 2025.

Delta also hosted a series of seminars on production and management digitization, which included the Delta Solution Day 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.”  Andy Liu, General Manager of Delta's Industrial Automation Business Group, shared Delta’s smart manufacturing architecture that integrates AI and digital twin technologies.

The highlights of this exhibition included:
- Robotics Accelerating Smart Automation: 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 utilizes real-time force feedback to stably handle fragile components such as chips and semiconductors, enabling flexible and rapid deployment. 
- Cyber-Physical Integration Smart Manufacturing: 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 Line Manager connecting IT/OT layers. The Cobot identifies incoming materials, enabling fast changeovers and mixed production. DIATwin generates and validates recipes offline, which are deployed in real time by Line Manager. This distributed manufacturing architecture accelerates NPI while ensuring centralized management.  
- Machine Vision and Connectivity for Smart Warehousing & Logistics: Delta’s 3D ToF and 2D vision solutions enable accurate object recognition and positioning, allowing stackers, AMRs, and automated forklifts to operate reliably even in low-light environments. The AI-Enabled Enterprise WLAN Solution further optimizes WiFi access point connections, ensuring stable connectivity for mobile devices. 

At Automation Taipei 2025, Delta showcased its smart manufacturing solutions and insights accumulated from proven global experience. In addition, Delta is collaborating with ecosystem partners to provide fields for training and solution validation to empower customers to achieve sustainable smart manufacturing.