ABB IRB 14000-.5/559

In 2015 ABB intro­duced YuMi, the world’s first tru­ly col­lab­o­ra­tive robot. YuMi was a game-chang­er and her­ald­ed a new era where peo­ple and robots safe­ly and pro­duc­tive­ly work side-by-side, with­out barriers.

Col­lab­o­ra­tive robots are adept at adding flex­i­bil­i­ty to assem­bly process­es that need to make small lots of high­ly indi­vid­u­al­ized prod­ucts, in short cycles. By com­bin­ing people’s unique abil­i­ty to adapt to change with robot’s tire­less endurance for pre­cise, repet­i­tive tasks, it is pos­si­ble to auto­mate the assem­bly of many types of prod­ucts on the same line.