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News Release from: MOTOMAN Robotics Europe | Subject: Humanlike robots with one and two arms
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 May 2006
Humanlike robots with one and two arms
Motoman, the robotic division of Yaskawa Electric, has recently developed humanlike robots with one and two arms based on a completely new technological concept.
Motoman, the robotic division of Yaskawa Electric, has recently developed humanlike robots with one and two arms based on a completely new technological concept With this revolutionary development , Motoman becomes the trendsetter for a new generation of industrial robots
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Motoman is the first company to launch these types of robots on the European market, and will present its seven-axis IA20 and 13-axis dual-arm robot DA20 at this year's "Automatica 2006" in Munich, Germany (hall B2/booth 338).
For the IA20, Motoman has won the Industrie Paris "Excellence in Productivity" award, which was personally handed over by the French industrial minister during this year's Industrie Paris exhibition.
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The main purpose of Motoman's new robots is to robotize manufacturing lines where a lot of the work is still done manually.
E.g.
assembling parts or engines in the car manufacturing industry, or assorting processes.
The key words are human flexibility and human size.
The robot arm is just as flexible and moveable as our own in order to perform the complicated motions of assembling and handling objects.
The dual-arm robots each feature 13 axes and can execute coordinated motions with their arms almost as if they were human! The seven-axis Motoman-IA20 has an overall height of just 159 cm and with its compact design allows an immense freedom of movement in the tightest of spaces.
For practical reasons the robot body of the DA-series is about the same size as a human being, making it easier to fit them into existing production lines without too many costly changes.
These two new robot models use the same robot controller as the rest of Motoman's industrial robot range.
This NX100 controller is the product of over 12 years development and perfection of synchronized multi-robot control and it is more than up to the task of handling dual-armed robots.
In the case of Motoman-DA, the special version of the controller is also small enough to fit into the robot body itself.
More of Motoman's innovative technology is hidden in the robot arms.
Motors and transmissions, which are responsible for the movement of the robot, have been built into each robot axis with the supply cable running through the arms.
This enables the robot to move freely without cable bundles being in the way, and to be able to sneak into very tight spots.
Motoman/Yaskawa was the first robot manufacturer to use robots to make robots, already having a few of the new models installed that are using vision systems.
It will not be long until many of the other Yaskawa factories are using the new robots to assemble more Yaskawa products.
The DA and IA-series were launched in Japan in late 2005 and many car manufacturers have already shown an interest in them.
Motoman is now launching the new IA and DA robots on the European market.
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