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Attendees at North America’s leading machine tool show will experience how the all-new collaborative, industrial cobot from Universal Robots delivers the longest reach and payload in its class, offering the ability to automate even more hard-to-staff tasks in a market struggling to hire.
The tedious task of loading and unloading parts into machines has long been a bread-and-butter application for cobots gaining significant traction in the industry. With its 1,750 mm (68.9 in) reach and 20kg payload (44.1 lbs.), the new UR20 from Universal Robots greatly expands automation opportunities such as the ability to reach further into machines, tend several machines in the same cycle, and handle 25% heavier parts. Despite being UR’s heaviest robot, the UR20 is the lightest cobot in its class, weighing only 64kg (141.1 lbs.) making it both a versatile technical tool and a manual laborer.
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The UR20 is the most innovative cobot Universal Robots has produced, representing the latest evolution in 17 years of technical experience in the robotics industry. At IMTS in Chicago, the UR20 is showcased equipped with SCHUNK’s new EGU parallel electric gripper in a machine tending application. (Photo: Business Wire)
“More than half of all US manufacturing tasks are automatable, a fact that businesses start to realize as they simply cannot fill open positions,” says Universal Robots’ senior manager of applications development and strategic marketing, Joe Campbell. “We are launching a redefined cobot that has been completely re-engineered from the ground up, focused on freeing up more manpower within a wide range of human-scale automation tasks.”
At Universal Robots’ IMTS booth 236949attendees will experience first-hand what that looks like as the UR20 loads and unloads heavy workpieces …
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