Industrial Cobots on the Move... Everywhere
04.06.2022 // Aditi Basu
Collaborative robots, or cobots, have evolved quickly – with major impacts on industrial automation, manufacturing, warehousing and more. With the size of this market now estimated at well over $1 billion and set to grow immensely by the end of the decade, cobots are here to stay. This article from Electronic Design shows how the capabilities and usage of cobots are expanding, solving business challenges while also creating new considerations around safety and business processes:
In most manufacturing processes, cobots are in fact preferred over industrial robots because they have lower upfront costs, with quick and fast ROI. Cobots could easily be the physical version of augmented and artificial intelligence. In addition, previous studies on the efficiency of cobots show that human-machine collaborative workforce is the most efficient followed by human-human and machine-machine workforce combinations.
The human-machine collaborative workforce will form the workplace of the future: Cobots augment the abilities of humans with precision and data capabilities, while humans augment cobots with intuitive capabilities.
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