Who builds the robots that build industry?

Indus­tri­al robot man­u­fac­tur­ing has tak­en off in the last 30 years. Robots are used in sev­er­al indus­tries, includ­ing the auto­mo­tive, aero­space, and con­sumer goods indus­tries. If some­thing comes out of a mid-sized fac­to­ry, it has prob­a­bly been touched by a robot at one point or another.

But, these robots do not appear out of thin air, they are not born. Indus­tri­al robots are, in fact, man­u­fac­tured as well.

An indus­tri­al robot is defined by the Inter­na­tion­al Orga­ni­za­tion of Stan­dard­iza­tion as an ​“auto­mat­i­cal­ly con­trolled, re-pro­gram­ma­ble, mul­ti­pur­pose manip­u­la­tor pro­gram­ma­ble in three or more axes.” Many indus­tri­al robot­ic arms have five or more axes.

Who builds indus­tri­al robots?

Sev­er­al indus­tri­al robot man­u­fac­tur­ers make these tech­no­log­i­cal giants. Three of the lead­ers – Fanuc, Motoman, and KUKA – build sev­er­al mod­els that can per­form many tasks like mate­r­i­al han­dling, weld­ing, and mate­r­i­al removal, while offer­ing numer­ous pro­duc­tiv­i­ty advan­tages to consumers.

How are robots made?

The first step is to pro­duce the indus­tri­al robot­ic arm. Before the arm can be built, it must go through the design and fab­ri­ca­tion process. Once the fab­ri­ca­tion is approved, the robot is assembled.

Robot arms are typ­i­cal­ly made of raw mate­ri­als like steel, alu­minum and cast iron. Some spe­cial robots, like those used in clean room appli­ca­tions, are made of titanium.

Begin­ning at the base, these indus­tri­al robots are assem­bled of sev­er­al com­po­nents, includ­ing motors, cylin­ders, cables and bear­ings. They are then test­ed before being sent out to the consumer.

Once the indus­tri­al robot arm is assem­bled by these robot man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies, it still needs a teach pen­dant, con­troller and end-of-arm-tool­ing to begin per­form­ing the process­es it was designed to do.

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