Should you let your guard down?Rethinking collaborative robotics

摘要

Thanks to new safety and sensing technologies, the options for robot-operator collaboration isn't as black and white as cobot versus fully-fenced. Paul Wilkinson, Commercial & Information Systems Manager at Pacepacker Services, lets his guard down to discuss robots, robots and everything in-between. The first generation of collaborative robots or 'cobots' is revolutionising the way in which humans and robots interact. These smaller, more agile Industrial robots can work cage-free alongside operators on shared or separate tasks. This is possible due to features such as inbuilt force sensors, power and force limited functionality and soft, rounded shapes and surfaces.