The difference between a cooperative robot and a traditional robot

Cooperative robots, as the name suggests, refer to robots that can directly interact with people within a collaborative area, and cooperative areas refer to areas where robots and humans can work simultaneously. Collaborative robots are a branch of traditional industrial robots. Its rise and development originate from the shortcomings of traditional industrial robots that cannot meet the needs of new markets.

First of all, traditional industrial robots are mainly engaged in complex assembly line work. To ensure that tasks are completed in an orderly manner, it is necessary to ensure the precise positioning of their work environment (such as ensuring that on-time processing products appear at fixed positions on time). This deployment is a system. The project requires a lot of resources, occupying a large area of workshops, and requires a long time for deployment. It requires a professional integration service provider to complete it, and when the production changes, adjustment is very difficult, so the cost is high. The cooperative robot has high flexibility and low dependence on the external environment. When encountering product changes, the enterprise does not need to replace the robot, and only simple programming and training can adapt it to the next task. Even if a machine malfunction occurs, it can be rapidly caused by humans or New machine to add. The cost is greatly reduced to meet the requirements of 3C companies that are not sufficiently funded by small and medium-sized enterprises and have fast product replacement.

Secondly, due to historical and technological reasons, the design of traditional industrial robots mainly considers the task of high-speed automated completion of tasks and does not focus on human-machine security cooperation. Therefore, for security reasons, most factories that use industrial robots must use fence robots and workers to isolate them. However, with the development of society, labor costs have increased. In addition to large-scale manufacturing plants, more and more industries and SMEs have also begun to seek solutions for robotic automation. These industries have a wide range of products and are generally small in size. They require high flexibility and flexibility in operation, and therefore often require human-machine cooperation to greatly reduce conversion costs. At this moment, the cooperative robot that integrated the new security technology in the system has emerged.