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Why do we need collaborative robots? The origin of collaborative robots? What is the difference between collaborative robots and traditional robots?
Collaborative robots are only a very important sub-category in the entire industrial robot industry chain. It has its unique advantages, but its shortcomings are also obvious: In order to control force and collision capabilities, the operating speed of collaborative robots is relatively slow, usually only three of the traditional robots. One-half to one-half. This article will try to answer the following questions: Why do we need collaborative robots? The origin of collaborative robots? What is the difference between collaborative robots and traditional robots?
Why do we need collaborative robots?
The rise of collaborative robots means that traditional robots are inevitably inadequate or unable to adapt to new market needs.
To sum up, there are three main points:
Traditional robots are expensive to deploy
In fact, relatively speaking, the price of industrial robots themselves is not high. Robots used in mainstream occasions are priced from ￥10w to ￥40w depending on the load capacity. In general, the service life of a robot is 5 to 8 years, which is not expensive as a relatively high-end industrial equipment.
Traditional robots are expensive in their deployment (installation of the robots in the factory and normal operation) for two reasons: the current industrial robots are mainly responsible for repetitive tasks in the factory, which relies on their very high repeat positioning accuracy (repeated arrival The ability of certain fixed positions in space, the general robot can achieve below 0.02mm), and rely on a 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 accurately pick up or perform an operation in the same place every time. For modern complex assembly line operations, it takes a lot of resources to design these fixed external environments for each process using robots on the entire production line, occupying a large area of ??valuable workshop area and several months of implementation time. Robots are difficult to use. Only trained professionals can skillfully use robots to complete configuration, programming, and maintenance tasks. Ordinary users rarely have such capabilities.
It is a systematic project to transform the previous assembly line based on worker operations into a production line based on robots and automated equipment. Most terminal factory customers do not have such capabilities, so a third-party role is needed to complete it. In this part of the work, the third party, the system integrator, will complete the final deployment of the robot based on the actual situation on the customer site.
The work of the system integrator includes at least: the design, manufacture, and installation of robot peripheral support equipment for the automation transformation plan (process, equipment layout, staffing, etc.) of the production line. Robot programming and debugging that meet the process requirements. Training of customer technical team. And follow-up after-sales maintenance work.