Collaborative robot
A robot designed specifically to share a workspace with humans, featuring safety characteristics such as force feedback, speed limits and collision detection. It can work alongside workers without fencing, in contrast to traditional industrial robots.
Timeline (last 90 days)
Dedicated robotic arms (such as six-axis industrial robots) and collaborative robots are the mainstream automation equipment on current automotive production lines, with repeat positioning accuracy reaching the sub-millimeter level.
Over the past decade, consumer drones have driven the cost of flight control and perception extremely low, and collaborative robots have made force-control actuators smaller and cheaper; the intersection of these two curves has lowered the barrier to aerial manipulation.
ISO 10218 is the foundational international standard for industrial robot safety, and ISO/TS 15066 specifically specifies power and force limiting principles for collaborative robots.
Collaborative robots only solve the safety problem of human-machine coexistence, and do not mean that overall integration becomes simpler; engineering steps such as fixtures, interfaces, and cycle-time optimization still need to be implemented one by one.
Compliant force control allows a robot to actively yield when encountering unexpected resistance by sensing joint forces in real time, and was first widely applied in the collaborative robot (Cobot) field.
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Dedicated robotic arms (such as six-axis industrial robots) and collaborative robots are the mainstream automation equipment on current automotive production lines, with repeat positioning accuracy reaching the sub-millimeter level.
50%UnverifiedOver the past decade, consumer drones have driven the cost of flight control and perception extremely low, and collaborative robots have made force-control actuators smaller and cheaper; the intersection of these two curves has lowered the barrier to aerial manipulation.
50%UnverifiedISO 10218 is the foundational international standard for industrial robot safety, and ISO/TS 15066 specifically specifies power and force limiting principles for collaborative robots.
50%UnverifiedCollaborative robots only solve the safety problem of human-machine coexistence, and do not mean that overall integration becomes simpler; engineering steps such as fixtures, interfaces, and cycle-time optimization still need to be implemented one by one.
50%UnverifiedCompliant force control allows a robot to actively yield when encountering unexpected resistance by sensing joint forces in real time, and was first widely applied in the collaborative robot (Cobot) field.
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