What are cobots?
Cobots are collaborative robots that work alongside employees performing repetitive tasks, such as inspection and assembly, reducing errors, improving efficiency and freeing up workers to focus on more complex operations.
What can collaborative robot do?
Collaborative robots can be integrated into the production process to perform tasks that are repetitive enough to risk errors or injury. Their small size and dexterous movement mean they make great assistants for tasks using small parts or intricate placement. These include the types of jobs humans do at workbenches and on the manufacturing floor.
Examples include:
- pick and place (e.g. moving item from a conveyor to a tray)
- machine tending (e.g. injection moulding or CNC machines)
- packaging and palletising
- process tasks, when equipped with end-effector tools (e.g. glueing, drilling, welding)
- finishing (sanding, polishing, deburring, trimming)
- quality inspection, when equipped with a vision camera/system
- assembly
- dispensing (e.g. adhesive, lubricant, sealant)
- painting, coating, dipping
How cobots can improve your business
Collaborative robots are simple to integrate, can operate with high precision, and can vastly reduce the instances of costly errors or mistakes in production.
Increased efficiency
Collaborative robots are designed to perform repetitive tasks that have a high risk of human error. By deploying cobots this way human workers’ time can be freed up for more value-adding activities.
Increased safety
Not only can cobots take on repetitive tasks and reduce instances of accident or error, they’re also incredibly safe to operate, with highly sensitive sensors ensuring they stop if they detect any change in pressure.
Cost-effective
Cobots offer cost-effective automation, making them ideal for smaller businesses. They provide an excellent return on investment with increased productivity, efficiency and labour costs.
Versatility
Cobots offer almost unlimited potential. Because they are specifically designed to work alongside people, they have applications beyond manufacturing, and can be tasked with a very wide range of jobs.
Easy to install and use
Collaborative robots are much easier to install and use than their industrial robot counterparts, allowing them to be integrated seamlessly into the workplace with little disruption or previous automation knowledge or experience.
The new A-series is the ‘go-to’ range for manufacturers. The series is versatile, safe and reliable and offers a truly high-speed cobot solution.
- Payload: 5kg - 9kg
- Reach: 900mm - 1200mm
- Repeatability: +/- 0.03mm - 0.05mm
The H-series comprises the most powerful cobots on the market with one model having a 25kg payload capacity. Both models in the series feature six torque sensors which dramatically increases their application potential.
- Payload: 20kg - 25kg
- Reach: 1500 mm - 1700mm
- Repeatability: ±0.1 mm
M-series cobots are versatile, easy to use and install, and are competitively priced. The range won the prestigious RED DOT award for product design in 2017 and 2018.
- Payload: 6kg - 15kg
- Reach: 900mm - 1700mm
- Repeatability: ±0.03 mm - ±0.1 mm
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Our cutting edge gripping and sensing systems for industrial automation are ideal for assembly, surface finishing, pick and place, machine tending or testing.
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- 1200mm maximum reach
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- 900mm maximum reach
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- 1200mm maximum reach
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Case Study
Cambridge Precision
Leading precision subcontract specialist invests in three new Doosan machining centres and a Doosan cobot to fulfil a new machining contract.
Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has recently supplied leading precision engineering specialist – Cambridge Precision Ltd (CPL) – with three new, advanced Doosan machine tools and a new, high-performance Doosan collaborative robot.
Why choose Doosan?
Doosan cobots
Doosan collaborative robots are the workforce of the future, being versatile, incredibly safe and offering a fantastic return on investment.
The versatility, performance and reliability of Doosan Cobots mean they are suitable for a huge range of applications within a vast number of industries, including automotive and defence, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, electronics, packaging, healthcare, warehouses and logistics.
With a range of 3 different cobots available in the Doosan portfolio – M series, A series and H series, there is plenty of choice depending on the business need. These cobots can have a range of up to 1.7m and a payload size of up to 25kg, making them ideal for tasks such as pick and place, assembly and machine tending.
FAQs about Cobots
No, collaboration is a key part of cobot technology. Cobots are designed to support and optimise the efforts of human workers, encouraging job shifts – not losses. Their role is to make up the resource difference and allow human workers the time to focus on more complex tasks.
Cobots generally have a lifespan of at least 20,000 hours, so you can expect a cobot working 40 hours a week to last at least 10 years.
Yes – one of the reasons that cobots have become so widespread and popular is due to their simple but effective technology. Simple tasks can be programmed with little knowledge of coding. Doosan cobots come with a Teach Pendant. Via the Teach Pendant, just about all of your cobots capabilities are accessible through a well-written programme.
The price of a cobot varies depending on many variables, such as payload and intended use. Cobots are, however, designed to be accessible and cost-effective for businesses of all different sizes, with minimal upfront costs and low maintenance costs. It’s also important to note that the return on investment is relatively fast due to the increase in production.
Industrial robots are designed to efficiently complete repetitive and potentially dangerous tasks in the same way as a collaborative robot, however, an industrial robot does not require any help or intervention from human operators. They are usually larger, more complex and expensive and are often kept in a caged area on the shopfloor away from human workers.
Cobots, on the other hand, are by definition designed to work alongside humans in a safer way, requiring regular human intervention in order to carry out tasks. Both have their benefits and which is best for your business will depend on your needs and the type of business.
Over time, your Doosan cobot will need servicing. At Mills CNC Automation, we offer our customers best-in-class and competitively-priced servicing for your Doosan machines.
We provide two different machine tool servicing options: Mills CNC Servicing Agreements and Fixed-Price Servicing, to offer flexible servicing options to keep your cobots in top working condition.
Interested in cobots? Get in touch
Cobots have a wide range of practical applications, and at Mills CNC we can help you find the right solution for your unique requirements. Simply get in touch to find out more.