Fanuc Collaborative Robots: The Mini Series

Fanuc’s col­lab­o­ra­tive robot series includes the heavy-duty CR-35iA and has recent­ly intro­duced human arm sized mini-col­lab­o­ra­tive robots: the CR-4iA, the CR-7iA, and the extend­ed reach, the CR-7iA/L. They are small and flex­i­ble robots that are able to help con­serve floor space with flex­i­ble mount­ing options such as up-side down, on a wall, or even on a hand cart that can eas­i­ly be relo­cat­ed. The three mini-series robots have 6‑axes and can reach a max­i­mum speed of 500 mm/​s as they work by a human’s side with the same pace and dex­ter­i­ty as a human.

Spec­i­fi­ca­tions:

• The CR-4iA has a 550 mm reach, 4 kg pay­load, and weighs 48 kg with­out controller
• The CR-7iA has a 717 mm reach, 7 kg pay­load, and weighs 53 kg with­out controller
• The extend­ed reach, CR-7iA/L has a 911 mm reach, 7 kg pay­load, and weighs 55 kg with­out controller

This col­lab­o­ra­tive mini-series excels at com­plet­ing tedious and repet­i­tive tasks and can be pro­grammed to per­form entire pro­duc­tion flows. They were all designed with the same high reli­a­bil­i­ty based on the proven LR Mate mod­els. These robots can oper­ate in a wide range of indus­tries such as the auto­mo­tive, pack­ag­ing, dis­tri­b­u­tion, and met­al­work­ing indus­tries. They are flex­i­ble and can work direct­ly next to a human as they con­quer a vari­ety of tasks such as mate­r­i­al han­dling, machine tend­ing, pal­letiz­ing, part assem­bly, and/​or pick and place.

The beau­ty of col­lab­o­ra­tive robots enables the robots and humans to work in close prox­im­i­ty with­out safe­ty fences. These col­lab­o­ra­tive fea­tures are ben­e­fi­cial as they enable robots and humans to work togeth­er with­out all of the safe­ty guards and bar­ri­ers, which improves over­all appli­ca­tion func­tion­al­i­ty, while also cut­ting down on the amount of space nec­es­sary for a robot­ic unit. 

Set-up and pro­gram­ming are a breeze as these robots use the proven tech­nol­o­gy and the stan­dard Fanuc inter­face. Addi­tion­al­ly, these robots are com­pat­i­ble with all of the lat­est, exist­ing intel­li­gence and reli­a­bil­i­ty func­tions. It can include a vari­ety of options based on your needs such as iRVi­sion or spe­cif­ic force sen­sors to enable a high degree of pre­ci­sion, object recog­ni­tion, and accuracy. 

The smart sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy enables each robot to come to a stop when­ev­er it touch­es a human oper­a­tor. Also, the human work­er can sim­ply adjust or move the robot by apply­ing pres­sure. The proven sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy that was inte­grat­ed means that safe­ty bar­ri­ers, such as fences, are not required, fur­ther reduc­ing your over­all man­u­fac­tur­ing costs. Safe­ty was of utmost impor­tance when these robots were designed. 

Over­all, the Fanuc cobot series helps to increase pro­duc­tiv­i­ty while facil­i­tat­ing tedious, monot­o­nous, back-break­ing tasks. These robots are able to free work­ers from the mind­less tasks and allow an increased focus on more diver­si­fied, skilled, or com­plex jobs. If you are inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the Fanuc col­lab­o­ra­tive line then give con­tact Robots​.com online at 877−762−6881.