What are collaborative robots?
Collaborative robots, as the name suggests, are robots that work in tandem with humans on the production line, fully leveraging the efficiency of the robots and the intelligence of humans. These robots are not only cost-effective but also safe and convenient, greatly promoting the development of manufacturing enterprises.
Collaborative robots, as a new type of industrial robot, have eliminated obstacles to human-robot collaboration, allowing robots to completely break free from the constraints of fences or cages. Their groundbreaking product performance and wide range of applications have ushered in a new era for the development of industrial robots.
What are the characteristics of collaborative robots?
1. Lightweight design: Makes robots easier to control and improves safety.
2. User-friendliness: Ensure that the robot's surface and joints are smooth and flat, without sharp corners or gaps that could pinch or injure operators.
3. Perception ability: to perceive the surrounding environment and change one's own actions and behaviors according to changes in the environment.
4. Human-robot collaboration: It has sensitive force feedback characteristics and will stop immediately when the preset force is reached. After risk assessment, there is no need to install protective railings, enabling humans and robots to work together.
5. Easy to program: Programming and debugging are very easy for ordinary operators and people without technical backgrounds.
What are the advantages of collaborative robots?
Human-robot collaboration has brought about a fundamental transformation in industrial production and manufacturing in the factories of the future, and collaborative robots have a decisive and important advantage:
1. It offers the greatest flexibility in the production process.
2. To take over manual processes that were previously impossible to automate and did not conform to ergonomics, thereby reducing the burden on employees.
3. Reduce the risk of injury and infection, for example, by using specialized human-machine collaborative grippers.
4. Complete repeatable processes with high quality without investing in different types or workpieces.
5. Employ a built-in sensing system to improve productivity and reduce equipment complexity.
Based on the advantages of human-robot collaboration and in response to market demand, more flexible collaborative robots have become a feasible solution for undertaking assembly and extraction tasks. They can maximize the strengths of both humans and robots, allowing robots to better cooperate with workers and adapt to a wider range of work challenges.
