Environmentally-Friendly Robots

When peo­ple think about robots, all they tend to think about are these hard, met­al mon­sters that work in fac­to­ries sur­round­ed by more met­al, con­crete and brick. How­ev­er, did you know that even robots are try­ing to become more envi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly? As com­pa­nies con­tin­ue to go ​“green,” robots are lead­ing the way as friends to the envi­ron­ment out­side their con­crete walls.

One of the eas­i­est exam­ples of their friend­li­ness to the envi­ron­ment is a robot’s abil­i­ty to reduce the amount of waste dur­ing their appli­ca­tion process­es. For exam­ple, when a robot is paint­ing an item, it uses less paint to cov­er the work piece than any man­u­al appli­ca­tion would apply. This means that less paint is used, and less is wast­ed. Wast­ed paint, along with oth­er pol­lu­tants have to be prop­er­ly dis­posed of so they do not leak into ground water, and the use of less paint means less paint, which means less of a chance of contamination.

There is also the mar­ket for refur­bished robots, prob­a­bly demon­strat­ing the most envi­ron­men­tal­ly-friend­ly aspect of all. Com­pa­nies like Robots​.com buy refur­bished robots from oth­er com­pa­nies, and they use process­es like dry ice blast­ing to clean the robots, which does not waste water, and then they repair them and get them out to oth­er con­sumers. This abil­i­ty to reuse machin­ery means that the pieces will not end up in a dump some­where. Also, Robots​.com sell robots from com­pa­nies like Fanuc, Motoman, KUKA, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and ABB, uses old robots that are no longer able to work. They are able to reuse pieces of the robot, like the base, to make a base for work cell posi­tion­ers. This type of recy­cling is also friend­ly to the environment.

So, are you try­ing to go green? Would you like to know more about Robots​.com and the refur­bished robots they have avail­able? If so, con­tact Robots​.com online or at 877−762−6881.