The company Rethink Robotics introduces one-armed robot ‘Sawyer’, which is designed to many different repetitive tasks to perform. But that is not the only news from robothulpjesland. Universal Robots shows a tafelrobot that can help with the difficult chores.
Both robots were this week their road to the public at large, and both consist of only one arm. The robot of the German Universal Robotics is based on the industry-used robot arms UR5 and UR10, and thus its appearance is a fairly traditional robot arm. The big difference is that the ‘tafelrobot’ someone can assist with light assembleerwerk to, for example, to help to perform a task that normally two people should be done. Or think of the dispensing of the same quantity of glue, screws, torquing and similar activities. The arm itself weighs 11 kg and can be up to 3 kg load. The distance is 50 cm, and consumes an average of 100 watts. The general public can the robot on march 23, behold, at the Automate trade show in Chicago.
Universal Robotics: UR3
Sawyer is more designed as a robot to function in large assembly lines where the robot arm must support printplaattesten, machine operation and other repetitive tasks that are mainly in Asia, often by people be done. Sawyer is not the first robot from Rethink Robotics. The company was founded in 2008 to use a robot to develop a lot of tasks well and relatively fast and cheap, in the first instance, particularly to America to compete with Asia, where manpower is much cheaper. The first scion was the Baxter. This second robot weighs 19 kg, has a range of over a meter and should be especially an improvement in the variety of tasks the device can perform.
Rethink Robotics: Sawyer