The CR-7iA

Fanuc is Going Green, Again!

Fanuc has done an incred­i­ble job inno­vat­ing and keep­ing pace with what is cur­rent­ly dri­ving the mar­ket. This was recent­ly seen with the CR-35iA robot as the biggest and strongest col­lab­o­ra­tive robot to effort­less­ly show the world the beau­ty of com­bin­ing the pow­er of the robot with the flex­i­bil­i­ty of an oper­a­tor. Car­ry­ing a 35kg pay­load, the robot attract­ed exceed­ing­ly high amounts of inter­est amongst an array of industries.

So, Fanuc made the next log­i­cal deci­sion. They intro­duced a low­er pay­load col­lab­o­ra­tive robot, the CR-7iA, whose mechan­ics match the com­pa­ny’s LR Mate-series (LR Mate 200iD). This small­er robot will allow Fanuc to cov­er dif­fer­ent pay­loads and reach­es in the col­lab­o­ra­tive cat­e­go­ry. With all these inno­va­tions, almost any task need­ed can now be achieved with a sin­gle robot­ic man­u­fac­tur­er. Well done, Fanuc!

If you aren’t famil­iar already, col­lab­o­ra­tive robots have increased pro­tec­tive func­tions and the abil­i­ty to work side by side with human work­ers with­out any bar­ri­ers. Oper­a­tors will have the new found abil­i­ty to use their cog­ni­tive and sen­so­ry capa­bil­i­ties right next to this robot, thus cre­at­ing a most effec­tive team of man and machine.

Anoth­er huge advan­tage to these two green robots is that they are super sen­si­tive to impact. Locat­ed in the base, the force torque sen­sor is super sen­si­tive and will stop when it reach­es the para­me­ters that have been set for force vari­a­tions. Anoth­er plus is that the whole robot will restart with the push of a but­ton. There is also an exter­nal skin that cov­ers pinch points and sharp edges which helps to fur­ther reduce the force of an impact. 

If your com­pa­ny is famil­iar with Fanuc robots and is used to the robot soft­ware, than the tran­si­tion to col­lab­o­ra­tive robots would be sim­ple. It would con­sist of quick pro­gram and knowl­edge inte­gra­tion trans­fer from cur­rent robots to the new cobots.

The robot is sup­posed to make a grand appear­ance at the Tech­niShow (Nether­lands) in March, the Indus­trie fair (France) in April, the MACH Show (UK) in April and the Auto­mat­i­ca fair (Ger­many) in June. This is one robot you don’t want to miss!

We love how the robot­ic indus­try is in a state of con­stant evo­lu­tion! See­ing the robot­ic indus­try press­ing for­ward with neat inno­va­tions, includ­ing these cobots, is promis­ing for all of us! We won’t be sur­prised when the col­lab­o­ra­tive robot mar­ket quick­ly booms worldwide! 

Are you inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the col­lab­o­ra­tive robots list­ed above, or any of the tra­di­tion­al indus­tri­al robots avail­able from the com­pa­nies in this arti­cle? Then you should con­tact Robots​.com, an inte­gra­tor for Fanuc, Motoman, KUKA, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and ABB. Our staff will work with you to help you design and build the best robot­ic sys­tem for you and your facility.

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