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SUPPLEMENT FEATURE Robotics & Motion


FUTUREROBOTICS Exhibitor


Automation at your fingertips: Low-priced delta robot available to build or buy


Cost-effective, and quick and easy to implement, the new Delta robot from igus is available directly from stock as a kit, or delivered pre-assembled and ready to install


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Delta deployment benefits


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For more information about Delta robots from igus, please visit: igus.co.uk/deltaassembly or call igus directly on tel: 01604 677240


he new robolink Apiro modular motion system from igus, enables design engineers to develop low-cost automation systems. Comprising three lubrication-free worm gears for standard, inverted and linear movement, the system can be configured to perform simple linear motion to complex humanoid and animatronic robotic tasks. “The name says it all: Apiro is derived from the Greek word for ‘unlimited’, explains Robert Dumayne, dry-tech director at igus. “When the new series was being developed, the focus was on decoupling the motor and gearbox, as well as a new type of worm gear.” With the new modular system, therefore,


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The new robolink series is also suitable for training, development and research as different kinematics can be set up easily and quickly. In the worm gears of the new Apiro series,


even complicated movements can be implemented. For example, cost-effective and individual SCARA robots and linear robots as well as sprue pickers for the removal of products from injection-moulding machines. Transport and handling systems, as well as humanoid and animatronic robots which can perform movements like those of a spider, for instance.


high-quality tribo-polymers with solid lubricants are used. The corrosion-free and chemical-resistant high-performance plastics ensure a high degree of stability, low weight, a long service life and freedom from the need for maintenance. The joints are joined together by a multi-functional profile made of aluminium. This makes it possible to insert drive shafts through a hollow space in the middle, a possibility that the inverted worm gear makes use of. The gearbox rotates the aluminium profile, making it suitable for use in robotics and rotating applications. For linear motion, the aluminium profile travels linearly through the worm gear or the worm gear travels on the linear profile. The multi-functional profile also enables the engineer to connect the different gearboxes of the robolink Apiro series. Placing several Apiro


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joints side by side makes parallel joint connections possible as well. This results in endless possibilities of combination in order to automate very different applications. The aim is, to be able to offer robolink Apiro


as a series-produced solution for a wide market after the test phases. In addition, a configurator is being planned that is to simulate the modular system’s different possibilities of movement. Further information is available online by visiting igus.co.uk/apiro


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