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About the Author<\/a><\/div>
Antti Lumme
\nUniversal Robots ambassador in Finland
\n+358 44 590 3122
\nanlu@universal-robots.com
\n<\/div><\/div>\n\nThe offering of the technology<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Collaborative robots were introduced in 2008 to the markets when Universal Robots unveiled their first robot, the legendary UR5, that was able to perform tasks without safety fencing next to an employee. Why was it so important to create such a robot which is fundamentally designed to work safely with and not something to separate from people? Customer behavior is the most fundamental thing that drove three university guys into designing something totally new to industry, e.g Tesla designed a totally new species of cars.<\/p>\n

Change in buying behavior resulted in smaller batches and shorter lead times especially for the SME\u2019s providing most of the commodities for any industrial or consumer products. The SME\u2019s couldn\u2019t afford to invest in heavy robotics solutions without huge risk involved, were labor intense and inflexible in many Western countries.<\/p>\n

Cobots are an easy way to automate anything done by people and by hand. This allows people to have their focus on more productive tasks where a person is more productive making right decision compared to a robot. This might resolve the challenge of not being able employ or train enough people to meet the production targets in volume.<\/p>\n

All robots, collaborative and industrial, still need to be taught how to do things and that is the reason cobots are a great choice for doing the tedious, uncomfortable and unergonomic tasks done by hand now. This will help the employers to have better working environment, happy employees as well having more business at their reach due to more cost-effective production and more capacity from the resources.
\nIn some cases, the idea can become as a solution in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

Safety first<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no right and wrong way to solve safety as long the adequate safety measures are in place and the safety of the employee is taken into consideration when employing a cobot as your co-worker.<\/p>\n

The technology behind the collaborative robots differs per manufacturers:<\/p>\n