It's All About That Strength - Robot Payloads

So, you’re think­ing about get­ting a robot? One of the things you will have to research is the robot pay­load capac­i­ty. A robot pay­load is the max­i­mum of weight that a robot can pick up or manip­u­late. This is impor­tant to any man­u­fac­tur­er look­ing to auto­mate their pro­duc­tion line, because if you do not fac­tor in pay­load capac­i­ty, you will not get the advan­tages of speed and accu­ra­cy from your robot­ic system.

There are robots that can pick up almost any­thing. Robots can pick up 3kg, and some can pick up as much as 1300kgs. What you choose depends on what you need the robot to do. Many man­u­fac­tur­ers choose robots with large pay­load capac­i­ties because they can sin­gle-hand­ed­ly pick up and move items that one human work­er could nev­er lift on their own. These robots help pro­duc­tion to run more effi­cient­ly, sav­ing the com­pa­ny time and mon­ey on production.

On the oth­er hand, if your pro­duc­tion line works with very small parts, you may want to invest in a robot with a low­er pay­load capac­i­ty. These robots tend to be small­er, and can inter­act eas­i­er with small parts. A small pay­load capac­i­ty robot­ic sys­tem may work well for an elec­tron­ics com­pa­ny, for exam­ple, in areas where moth­er­boards and oth­er elec­tron­ics with small pieces, weld­ing and wiring need to be put together.

As you can see, the pay­load capac­i­ty of the robot you choose is very impor­tant. It needs to per­fect­ly match the amount that your robot needs to lift or manip­u­late. But, there are so many dif­fer­ent robots, how will you know what to choose, right? Oh, that one is easy – just give Robots​.com a call.

Robots​.com pro­vides solu­tions from sev­er­al of the top robot­ics com­pa­nies in the indus­try, includ­ing Fanuc, ABB, KUKA, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and Motoman. Our staff will help you from the ini­tial con­sul­ta­tion, all the way through to inte­grat­ing the robot into your work­space. Our tech­ni­cians and engi­neers are high­ly trained and can assist you in choos­ing the right pay­load capac­i­ty for your robot, along with answer­ing any oth­er ques­tions you have while con­struct­ing your system.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.