These stronger, faster and more capable cobots are said to be accelerating the company’s expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics and food and beverage, amongst others, meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries.
Operating at speeds up to 5m/s, SWIFTI can carry payloads up to 4kg. Based on ABB’s IRB 1100 industrial robot, the CRB (Collaborative Robot) 1100 SWIFTI offers reach of up to 580mm.
The GoFa CRB 15000 six-axis collaborative robot features intelligent sensors in each joint to support close human and robot collaboration. It offers a reach of 950mm, speeds up to 2.5m/s and payloads up to 5kg.
GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. Customers will be able to operate their cobot within minutes of installation, straight out of the box, with no specialised training.
ABB’s cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualised consumers, labour shortages, digitalisation and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy.
Cobots are designed to operate in the presence of workers without the need for physical safety measures such as fences and to be easy to use and install.
GoFa and SWIFTI are engineered to help businesses automate processes to assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending, component assembly and packaging in manufacturing, medical laboratories, logistics hubs and warehouses, workshops, and small production facilities.
Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and re-program the new cobots using ABB’s set-up tools.
The new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families build on the success of ABB’s YuMi family, which has been helping businesses safely automate key tasks since YuMi, said to be the world’s first truly collaborative robot, was launched in 2015.