The New Collaborative Robot by Motoman- The HC10

Yaskawa Motoman recent­ly intro­duced the pro­to­type of the first col­lab­o­ra­tive robot, the Human Col­lab­o­ra­tive 10 (HC10), to be avail­able to the entire world!

Typ­i­cal­ly, indus­tri­al robots are placed behind cur­tains, fenc­ing, or oth­er bar­ri­ers as they move with a lot of pow­er and force that could injure a human work­er. How­ev­er, robot­ics man­u­fac­tur­ers, such as Fanuc, Motoman, KUKA, and ABB, are real­iz­ing the advan­tage of col­lab­o­ra­tive robots for cer­tain appli­ca­tions and indus­tries, and so is the entire globe. The col­lab­o­ra­tive mar­ket and demand are becom­ing so pop­u­lar that this indus­try of robots is now expect­ed to grow from $95 mil­lion in 2015 to $1 bil­lion in 2020!

So what is a col­lab­o­ra­tive robot? The col­lab­o­ra­tive robot was designed with mul­ti­ple advanced sen­sors, soft­ware, and EOATs that work togeth­er to help avoid injuries/​damages. These robots also no longer require safe­ty cages or bar­ri­ers; human work­ers and col­lab­o­ra­tive machines can safe­ly and effec­tive­ly work togeth­er in an un-caged environment.

The Motoman HC10 brings all of the above and more. The HC10 is a 6‑axis robot that can han­dle up to 10kg pay­load, has a 1200 mm reach, is floor mount­ed, and comes with the new YRC 1000 con­troller. The inter­nal cable rout­ing and wiring helps to guar­an­tee a high degree of reli­a­bil­i­ty with min­i­mal inter­fer­ence contours.

The HC10 was designed to specif­i­cal­ly avoid pinch points and dan­ger­ous sharp edges with its blue rub­ber skin suit to fur­ther pro­tect humans.

It addi­tion, it has a very sophis­ti­cat­ed force/​torque sen­sor in each axis to allow for a flex­i­ble inter­ac­tion between the robot arm and its envi­ron­ment. This Pow­er and Force Lim­it tech­nol­o­gy will mon­i­tor force in each joint and adjust accord­ing­ly. If any con­tact with an oper­a­tor is detect­ed, the robot can stop immediately.

The instal­la­tion of the HC10 couldn’t pos­si­bly get any eas­i­er as there are no addi­tion­al pro­tec­tive mea­sures required (space sav­ing!) and it is suit­able for a range of workstations.

If things aren’t good enough already, Motoman devel­oped an Easy Teach­ing Smart HUB soft­ware to make the HC10 ridicu­lous­ly easy to pro­gram and use. This soft­ware allows the robot arm posi­tions and grip­per oper­a­tion to be guid­ed by an oper­a­tor and registered.

Over­all, the HC10 is one robot you can’t pass up on. It will bring your pro­duc­tion line flex­i­bil­i­ty, cost sav­ings, space sav­ings, and more! Please con­tact Robots​.com online or by phone at 877−762−6881. Our experts are eager to increase the qual­i­ty and ROI on your pro­duc­tion line with the Motoman HC10!