Helping Hands
Business Today|June 17, 2018

Interacting with humans, cobots will save time and money.

Manu Kaushik
Helping Hands

THE RISE IN deaths on shop floors caused by rogue robots in recent years has prompted the manufacturing sector to look for alternatives. Engineers have found a solution in cobots – collaborative robots – that work alongside humans like helping hands, which traditional industrial robots cannot be used for.

While industrial robots have been around for decades – the first one worked on a General Motors assembly line in 1961 – the first commercial cobot was developed by Denmark-based Universal Robots (UR) in 2008. Full-scale adoption started only in 2016. Globally, cobots are used in neurosurgery, bar tending, physiotherapy, film making and industries.

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