Cobots and humans: Can we get along?

摘要

In December, Denmark-based Universal Robots celebrated the 10-year anniversary of delivering the first commercially-viable collaborative robot. That such "cobot" was put in place by Lanatex, a Danish supplier of plastics and rubber for industrial applications. Rather than installing it behind safety caging or fenced off from humans-as per the norm for industrial robots-the company deployed it right alongside its employees. That was essentially unheard of at the time.