COBOT – COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS
Cobots, a name that is a crasis of “collaborative robots” are bringing a further acceleration in what someone has called “the fourth industrial revolution”. Collaborative robots in fact have revolutionary characteristics. These are robots built to work side by side with humans and in some cases learn from them a series of operations, programmed to carry out heavy and repetitive manual work. The introduction of one or more Cobots into the production cycle of a small or medium-sized company is capable of enormously increasing productivity and making a difference in an extremely competitive market such as today. The collaborative robots greatly increase the precision of the processes, reducing the defectiveness of the products in the same measure, the cobots solve safety problems and can be used in arduous jobs allowing to best redistribute the human resources to whom to entrust control tasks, functions with higher value added or new innovative services. The ability to free staff from low value-added tasks – even if necessary – to create new services is the activity at the basis of technological innovation and this is also a factor that increases a company’s productivity and efficiency.
COBOT – WHY COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS
Collaborative robots are designed to work side by side with humans, without the need to insert them in expensive safety cells. Of course, their speed is lower than that of industrial robots: they work at “human” speeds but with precision and continuity as robots do, 24 hours a day. This is why cobots are very useful for performing repetitive tasks in already existing plants, of which they increase productivity, not for nothing the introduction of collaborative robots has contributed greatly to reducing the phenomenon of reshoring, thanks to a reduction of production costs.
Cobots can be easily moved and reprogrammed. For this reason, collaborative robots are able to respond to the need for high variability required by the market combined with high machining precision.
COBOT – THE COST OF COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS
Collaborative robots are also cost effective. The cost of a cobot recovers in less than a year, on average in just 200 days. Collaborative robots are easy to install, manage and even to program: in many cases the “user-friendly” software allows you to program or reprogram a cobot without the need for specialized technicians.
