Robots Producing Their Own Controllers

Fanuc Robot­ics, a lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of robots and robot con­trollers in the indus­try, is putting its mon­ey where its mouth is by using a ful­ly auto­mat­ed sys­tem to build its own products.

Fanuc makes sev­er­al con­trollers for its vast line of indus­tri­al robot mod­els. These units are pro­duced com­plete­ly by auto­mat­ed robot­ics sys­tems. Every step from prod­uct test­ing to qual­i­ty con­trol is per­formed by Fanuc indus­tri­al robots.

These Fanuc robots pro­duce the RJ2, RJ3, RJ3iB, RJ3iC, R30iA and the R30iB con­troller parts. These Fanuc con­trollers are the nerve cen­ters that con­trol indus­tri­al robots as they weld, assem­ble, pack­age and cut, along with all the oth­er appli­ca­tions that they can per­form. The con­trollers can con­trol dif­fer­ing amounts of robots and motions, depend­ing on the model.

The R30iB is the newest Fanuc con­troller mod­el. There are sev­er­al soft­ware options for this con­troller, includ­ing Arc­Tool, Dis­pense­Tool, Han­dling­Tool and Removal­Tool, just to name a few. These indus­tri­al robot-built con­trollers are the brains behind the brawn.

It’s kind of a cir­cle, real­ly – robots run by con­trollers that are mak­ing robot parts for con­trollers that will run oth­er robots that might make con­troller parts that will run oth­er robots…and so on, and so forth.

These Fanuc con­trollers have numer­ous advan­tages and dif­fer­ences.

Our engi­neers and design­ers will work with you to build your Fanuc robot or sys­tem, along with pick­ing the right Fanuc robot-built con­troller. For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Robots​.com today online or at 877−762−6881.

And don’t wor­ry, just because these robots are build­ing their own con­trollers doesn’t mean that they will start repli­cat­ing themselves…or does it?