Human-robot collaborative robots (co-bots) are robots that can work together with humans in the same scene. Because cobots are not heavy, adaptable, plug-and-play, this technology is in high demand for small and medium-sized companies (SMES), and some analysts indicate that the cobot market will grow tremendously in the coming years.
Traditional bots are expensive in their deployment costs for two reasons
1. The current industrial robot is mainly responsible for repetitive work in the factory, which depends on its very high repeated positioning accuracy, as well as on the fixed external environment. In order to ensure this, in addition to the design requirements of the robot itself, the product to be processed needs to be placed in a fixed position, so that the robot can go to the same place every time to accurately pick up or perform a certain operation. Designing these fixed external environments for every robot-using process on the entire production line requires a lot of resources, takes up a lot of valuable floor space, and can take up months of implementation time for modern and complex assembly line operations.
2. The use of robots is difficult, and only trained professionals can skillfully use robots to complete configuration, programming and maintenance, and ordinary users rarely have such capabilities.
If robots want to work with higher quality and efficiency, they must change the traditional model, and cobots of all sizes and shapes use built-in sensors to outsource soft materials with the aim of reducing the risk of harm to humans. The biggest safety feature of the cobot is that the force limit is added to the joint, and the robot can react quickly when a collision occurs.
More and more service robots are designed to be co-engineered, so cobots can not only work in small and medium-sized enterprises. They can also be found in offices, homes, laboratories, warehouses, farms, sorting centers, and hospitals. Of course, the current technology is still in the tasks of grinding, handling, assembling, and packing; With the opening of the market, more and more fields of human-robot collaborative robots have been designed, and more and more applications have been developed.
Huge growth potential
Practical application shows that the efficiency of man-machine work is much higher than that of man-machine separation. Similarly, collaborative processes make better use of 85% of workers' free time. Human-robot collaborative robots now account for about 5% of the robot market, and the future is bright. Moreover, in the non-industrial field, the development trend of human-machine collaborative robots and drones is getting better and better.
Human-robot collaborative robots
Robots move from stationary workstations to people, moving from heavy industrial applications to assisting and increasing people's skills. More and more companies will start to see this wave of change, and they will join it, or they will not want to be eliminated. As a result, companies of all kinds have a reason to buy or invest in the robotics industry to fill their arsenals of products and services.
In the world, Universal Robotics has made a start, and next year will see a lot of products like ABB, Kuka, and Fanuc show their new products in different fields, and the competition will be more fierce in the future, and the demand for human-machine collaborative robots will become more and more vigorous, and the cost will be lower and lower as the technology matures. While human-robot collaboration is not yet the first choice in many places, many systems tend to be used due to their high flexibility, ease of use, and support platform.
The SME market is huge, with almost 70% of companies belonging to the SME market. Some low-cost plug-and-play robotic tools will fit well into the production processes of these companies, so the future of cobots is full of opportunities.
Collaborative robots will eventually become a transitional concept, and with the development of technology, all robots in the future should have the characteristics of working safely with humans, and intrinsic safety should be a necessary and fundamental feature of an ideal robot.
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