Manufacturing or Replicating?

Robots work in every facet of indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing today. These man­u­fac­tur­ing robots are assem­bling elec­tron­ics, pack­ag­ing food, cut­ting met­al and weld­ing cars.

So what hap­pens when robots begin man­u­fac­tur­ing oth­er robots? While it may sound like a scene straight out of iRo­bot, I assure you, it is not.

Indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing robots work on assem­bly lines con­struct­ing oth­er items, includ­ing vehi­cles and elec­tron­ics that are com­plex and have many inter­work­ing parts. If a robot can put togeth­er a tele­vi­sion cir­cuit board or a Volk­swa­gen, then why not anoth­er indus­tri­al robot?

There are robot­ics com­pa­nies that are using indus­tri­al robot­ics to build dif­fer­ent parts of the robots they pro­duce. Fanuc, a leader in the robot­ics indus­try, uses its indus­tri­al robots to build parts for oth­er indus­tri­al robots the com­pa­ny produces.

Some see this as signs that man­u­fac­tur­ing is mov­ing away from actu­al man­u­fac­tur­ing and into repli­ca­tion. How­ev­er, these repli­cat­ing ideas are cur­rent­ly only exis­tent in the sci­en­tif­ic test­ing phases.

For an indus­tri­al robot to be able to ful­ly repli­cate itself, it would have to be able to gath­er all the raw mate­ri­als nec­es­sary to make itself autonomous­ly. These indus­tri­al robot­ic sys­tems, no mat­ter how arti­fi­cial­ly intel­li­gent or com­plex, do not have these abilities.

Of course, it is pos­si­ble that robot repli­ca­tion will become an indus­try in the future as the need for more and more indus­tri­al robot ser­vices become preva­lent in society.

While Robots​.com does not have robots repli­cat­ing robots in its facil­i­ty, the com­pa­ny will cus­tomize and inte­grate an indus­tri­al robot sys­tem based on your exact specifications.

Robots​.com, an inte­gra­tor of Fanuc, Motoman, ABB, Uni­ver­sal Robots, and KUKA robot­ics, strives for excel­lence with its cus­tomers. Our high­ly skilled group of engi­neers, design­ers and sales­men will work to build you an indus­tri­al sys­tem that will leave you 100 per­cent satisfied.

For more infor­ma­tion about automat­ing an indus­tri­al robot­ic sys­tem with Robots​.com, con­tact us online or at 877−762−6881.