AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS
ARE COBOTS THE NEW CO-WORKERS? W
hat if robots could take on all the heavy duty and dangerous tasks in a manufacturing
facility—making work safer and more efficient? Imagine a smart robot keeping a production line up and running even if the employees had to work remotely. Or, consider collaborative robots (cobots) emerging from factory floors into new parts of our world, such as healthcare, helping nurses disinfect spaces and surfaces, or assist with administering certain tests to minimize health risks to workers. With industries such as healthcare systems facing
new challenges and demands—on top of labor and supply chain issues—increased automation in all areas of society is increasing productivity and improving quality of life. Dramatic changes are on the horizon, and fast
approaching, and Analog Devices (ADI) is uniquely positioned to help robotic technology meet these challenges head on.
BETTER LIVING THROUGH COBOTS Universal Robots (UR), a division of Teradyne, is the market leader in cobot manufacturing. It is a progressive organization with a mission to utilize the power of robot technology to change how people work and live around the globe—from helping a non-profit improve people’s vision in developing countries to reducing workforce injuries formerly caused by repetitive tasks. UR is helping enable humans to live and work alongside smaller, more flexible and more controlled robots to better augment and enhance human capabilities. As more industries adopt cobots for factory floors and beyond, businesses
>15% 50/50
are realizing greater efficiencies and securing more work thanks to their improved productivity. Universal Robots understands that expecting
people to work like machines limits both workers and workplaces. Human workers can’t add much value when they’re busy repeating menial tasks all day, and workplaces that can’t overcome the bottlenecks in their manual processes can’t grow and capture more business. UR envisions the factory of the future re-designing work to better tap into human ingenuity, and leveraging new technologies to create better work, and more of it, around the world.
level solutions for robotics technologies, including sensing, precision measurement, safety, communications, machine reliability, and power and size efficiencies. ADI has built and grown a close relationship
with UR since its founding (and with its parent company Teradyne). With similar missions of leveraging technology for the common good, ADI and UR are uniquely positioned to create life-altering technological advances that help transform workforces with their adoption of robots and cobots.
Leveraging ADI’s advancements in industry-
“UR’s vision is to create a world where people work with robots, not like robots. We want collaborative robotics to be accessible for companies of all sizes to help them improve productivity and safety. ADI helped us look at many challenges and showed us emerging technologies that would help us get to the next level. Our relationship has grown deeper and more collaborative…it goes way beyond supplying chips.”
Lars Bach, Hardware Director, R&D, at Universal Robots A/S
A RELATIONSHIP FORGED IN A COMMON MISSION Analog Devices is helping contribute to UR’s mission with deep expertise across various domains, and a portfolio of advanced system-
leading technologies such as sensing, measurement and power, helped UR to optimize the shaft performance of each cobot’s joints, enabling better control and system functionality and increasing precision system control of the
OF ALL ROBOTS SOLD IN 2028 WILL BE COBOTS
BY 2025, THE TIME SPENT ON TASKS AT WORK BY HUMANS AND MACHINES WILL BE EQUAL
Cobots help workers with repetitive tasks so they can do more creative work 18 FEBRUARY 2023 | FACTORY&HANDLINGSOLUTIONS
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