Collaborative robots solve flexible and non-standard problems

"Collaborative robots are a product that is planned to be able to interact with people in close proximity, and unlike traditional industrial robots, it can complete the coexistence of humans and machines without the need for equipment safety fences. The emergence of collaborative robots fundamentally changes the connection between humans and machines, and it breaks down such a barrier that humans and machines cannot coexist. ”

This passage comes from the speech delivered by Ren Yi, vice president of marketing of Elite Robot, at the "OFweek 2021 (10th) China Robot Industry Conference" hosted by the high-tech operation portal OFweek Veken and hosted by OFweek Veken · Robot, which directly expressed the importance of collaborative robots in the coexistence of man and machine.

Flexibility and non-standardization are the key to dealing with the problem

The evolution of human skills comes from three points, namely labor-saving, money-saving, and time-saving, and intelligent manufacturing caters to these three points to a certain extent.

So what kind of solution can deal with the above problems now? Elite Ren Yi said that cobots are a good solution to the above three problems, and they can also make everything very light.

In the process of popularization of intelligent manufacturing, flexibility and non-standardization have become increasingly prominent problems, which is also the key to dealing with intelligent manufacturing. Ren Yi pointed out that the most difficult thing to deal with in large-scale production and rigid production is the problem of flexible production, which has now become a bottleneck affecting the production power. In fact, flexibility and non-standard are like a pair of twin brothers, flexibility contains a lot of non-standard application scenarios and needs, the more you want to deal with flexibility, the more there is no way to bypass the problem of non-standard.

With the rigidity of rigid production, the problem of no way to quickly respond is becoming more and more obvious, and the value of collaborative robots is gradually revealed. Collaborative robots are a complementary relationship with traditional industrial robots, which are more suitable for high-precision, high-speed, and large-load scenarios. And the collaborative robot by virtue of its own flexible use of the characteristics of the network, is very suitable for a variety of small batches, the space is narrow, the demand for personnel often in and out, and even about the weight and power consumption of the robot has a certain demand for special scenes, which is also the key place for the collaborative robot to deal with flexible and non-standard problems.

In addition, the non-standard scenario is a headache for major enterprises, and integration, which is also a key factor for collaborative robots to form a large-scale shopping mall. Ren Yi said that non-standard integration has a certain skill threshold, although it is easy for integrators to establish added value to enhance customer stickiness. However, due to the different habits of end users, through many integrations invested in R&D, there may not be many orders, which seriously affects the enthusiasm of integrators.

Elite thinks that the cobot manufacturing products can be compared with the Apple mobile phone, and the key point is not the hardware, but the open software, and developers around the world can develop customized applications and processing solutions in the iOS system, and the same is true for cobots. Therefore, Elite has always considered whether it is possible to create a scalable, sustainable, and easy-to-use path-level product to help integrators and users quickly develop their own automation solutions according to the collaborative robot approach and lower the integration threshold, so the above problems can be easily solved.

Therefore, now intelligent manufacturing has put forward higher requirements for flexibility and non-standard, and collaborative robots have become an important thing to help integrators deal with key node problems.

Characteristics and application scenarios of collaborative robots

With the development of collaborative robots, it has now become an important job to complete intelligent manufacturing. In his speech at the conference, Ren Yi also focused on introducing several major benefits of collaborative robots.

A major feature of collaborative robots is that they are safe, lightweight, and modular integrated joints, and the overall weight of collaborative robots is very light, taking a 6 kg robot as an example, the weight is only 17.5 kg. The lightweight product has a low inertia, and the damage caused by the collision of the robot is also lower when working at the same speed, and the safety factor of man-machine cooperation is improved.

In the case of three robots, each robot has six joints, a total of 18 joints, but in fact Elite only produces five joint types. The cobot assembled according to the modular joint plan is easier to use and after-sales protection. In the future, with the development of different joint types, it will be easier for ontology manufacturers to expand their product portfolios, such as collaborative robots with larger joints and heavier loads.

One machine is the future trend of robots, and for more compact and compact collaborative robots, it is more mobile and easier to switch between work scenarios. In some cases, cobots are now more active than humans. For example, it supports a variety of equipment orientations such as formal mounting, flip loading and side mounting, and each joint of Elite cobot can be rotated ± 360 degrees, allowing the cobot to work in the fundamentally spherical operating area, with almost no blind spots. Therefore, whether it is placement or programming, collaborative robots are more active than traditional industrial robots.

Now, collaborative robots are very suitable for two types of scenarios, the first is to use collaborative robots as a central station, especially suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, and it is expected that the machine replacement can be quickly completed through collaborative robots, and the transformation and promotion of automation can be completed without changing the placement of the current production line. The second type is that large-scale factories use robots as an actuator in the meantime, using the production system to control and supervise the status of collaborative robots, or through underlying servo control, cooperative AI and third-party algorithms to make robots complete more complex missions.

With the news that major collaborative robot companies have announced 100 million yuan of financing, it means that the collaborative robot track has once again received unprecedented attention. Ren Yi emphasized, the more the Red Sea is local, the more it is clear that this direction is correct, and there is no real arrival in the Red Sea yet. "I thought that Elite could be described in four words, it has 17 years of industrial control set, and in 2019, it resolutely abandoned all traditional industrial robot product lines under 20 kilograms, and converged to the current six-joint collaborative robot track. Elite firmly chose the path that suited him. In the third quarter of this year, Elite will mass-produce and officially sell the CS series of collaborative robots at the channel level, benchmarking against foreign leading brands. We hope to create a robust, scalable and sustainable pathway product to help customers get through the key nodes, empower integrators and end users, and provide a powerful option for dealing with non-standard and flexible pain points. ”

Collaborative robots solve flexible and non-standard problems

Collaborative robots solve flexible and non-standard problems

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