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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 5:31:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Amid a severe downturn in automotive, company delivers a new product family aimed at general industrial users that require simpler, more compact and less expensive robots for pick-and-place, assembly or material handling applications. |
| Keywords: | robotics, four-axis robots, general purpose industrial robots |
KUKA Robotics Corp. today expanded its four-axis robot family with new models that are said to operate at higher speeds and take up less space than their six-axis siblings in pick-and-place, assembly, or material handling applications. The KUKA KR10 scara robot family includes 600mm and 850mm models that are capable of handling payloads of up to 10kg. The new line's debut follows last month's unveiling of the KUKA KR5, an even more compact version that can extend to 350mm or 550mm and handle up to 5kg loads. Both families, however, are a departure from KUKA's flagship six-axis robots, which are built specifically for automotive applications. The four-axis scara -- which stands for selective compliant articulated/assembly robot arm -- is aimed at general industry customers, which KUKA defines as anything outside of automotive. The new line operates at slightly faster speeds than the company's six-axis counterparts, but that's not the real draw, KUKA officials said. [Click to continue] |
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