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 bound to be inadequate to some extent, or cannot adapt to new market demands.

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 rely 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 must 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, designing these fixed external environments for each process using robots on the entire production line requires a lot of resources, taking up 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 this ability.

Unable to meet the needs of SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises are the main customers in the emerging market of robots, and traditional industrial robots cannot meet the needs of SMEs. The target market for traditional industrial robots is companies that can carry out mass production.
The automobile industry is a typical representative of mass production. The world's first industrial robot is also deployed in General Motors' factories and is responsible for the handling of stamped parts. To this day, the automotive industry still accounts for more than 40% of global robot shipments:
It usually takes 3 to 6 years for a new car to be released from the market. During this period, even if there is a model change, only the appearance and interior decoration will be fine-tuned. These changes will generally not affect the robot's work (body welding, painting, main parts handling), so the robot's entire life cycle is basically It is necessary to make changes to the completed production line or redeploy the robots. Only normal maintenance is required, which gives full play to the advantages of the robot and avoids its shortcomings.

Unable to meet the emerging collaborative market

Industrial robots have always been a model of high-precision and high-speed automation equipment, but due to historical and technical reasons, safety when being with people is not the focus of robot development. Therefore, in most factories, out of safety considerations, Generally, fences are used to isolate robots and personnel.
Fortunately, for most of the tasks previously performed by robots, human participation is not required, and robots can complete them independently.
However, with the rise in labor costs, many other industries that did not or rarely use robots before have begun to seek robotic automation solutions, such as the aforementioned 3C industry, as well as industries such as medicine, food, and logistics.

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