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Innovations On Robotics

Manufacturers are always looking for new ways to improve their efficiency while still keeping their human workers safe and happy. It’s a precarious balance that’s made much easier through the use of collaborative robotics.

Most people are used to the traditional fenced robot, which doesn’t have a lot of safety features, and as such, is typically isolated from their human counterparts. This is no longer the case with today’s collaborative robots.

Not only are they safe and efficient options, but they don’t require complex coding or engineers to train them. Today’s robots have vision systems that allow them to sense their human counterparts and even learn from their demonstrations.

One of the most profound examples of this solution in action, is the Sawyer robot from Rethink Robotics. Sawyer is the evolution of Baxter, the company’s first robot. This new model is able to work in tight spaces and near humans without any safety concerns.

Sawyer is lightweight at only 42 pounds and has 7 degrees of freedom with a 1260 mm reach. With force sensing abilities, Sawyer can “feel” its way into machines and work with a precision of +/- .1mm. It’s truly incredible.

Sawyer is only one of many as well. Universal Robotics is also offering several models of UR robots that boast some of the most flexible and easily-programmable options in the collaborative robotics industry.

Manufacturers also face challenges when it comes to hiring people for dirty, dangerous, or repetitive work. They simply don’t want to perform such tasks, but the UR robots can do so without any issue.

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