Robot/Cobot in 2020
By: Harshad Dabhade
Tags: Cobot, Robotics

What are cobots?

Collaborative robots are defined as robots that are capable of collaborating with humans. This collaboration is meant to reinforce human abilities in a safe way. They will even be programmed to prevent when a person enters the power where the robot operates. This successively results in unwanted delays in operational or production, which may be avoided through the utilization of cobots. Most cobots have six or seven DoFs.

Collaborative robots are capable of monitoring the environment and co-existing within the same facility alongside humans without sacrificing performance or safety.

The industry development of cobots is ongoing in several many areas. Faster response time, more exact movement patterns, orientation capabilities, capabilities in imitating humans — of these aspects contribute to advancements in cobot development. additionally, the brain-computer interface is an exciting area that has made significant progress recently. When brain signals are often read with high precision and transferred to the robots, we’ll be ready to collaborate with them in a completely new way.

Where cobots will offer the most value:

Cobots offer the foremost value in situations where a person must be in close proximity to the robots. This includes human-robot collaborations where a person guides the robots, monitors the method, or maybe learns from the robots as well.

Robots in 2020:

Jivaka-healthcare

Jivaka is launched by the Parel Workshop of Central Railways. It is designed to handle COVID 19 patients and can reduce the exposure of healthcare workers to COVID patients.

Jivaka, a remote-controlled rover, also can follow a marked line to maneuver to the patients’ beds. It works as a virtual healthcare worker to try to do various activities associated with the patient’s care and monitoring of vitals like measuring vital signs, Oxygen saturation level, blood heat, etc.

2. C-astra — healthcare

C-Astra is referred to as a smart LIDAR-based autonomous navigation enabled robot which uses UVC light to disinfect buildings.

It can make stores safer and free from all the microbes including coronavirus. Astra is provided with powerful UVC light that’s extremely effective against the virus but safe for human operations. The robot can navigate around a store making every inch free from coronavirus.

3. Vyommitra — Space application

Vyommitra, a female humanoid — is something that has an appearance resembling an individual’s appearance but is robotic — built by ISRO for ISRO’s first unmanned Gaganyaan mission.

Vyommitra can monitor module parameters, alert astronauts, and also perform life support operations. It is often referred to as a half humanoid because it doesn’t have legs. It can only bend sidewards and forward. It’ll perform certain experiments and may always remain in-tuned with the ISRO command center.

4. Ballie — House assistant

Designed as a little ball, Ballie uses on-device AI capabilities to provide a fitness assistant-like experience in conjunction with a mobile interface. The device patrols homes and acts as a far off control for smart devices. At the same time, it also uses built-in sensors and AI algorithms to understand the fitness activity of users.

A video presented by Samsung during its CES presentation manifested Ballie communicating with smart curtains, switching on the TV, and recognizing the users. It had been also shown to work with other connected devices and even allowing users to determine what their pets do during the reception.

Cobots in 2020

Jaka Zu Series Cobot

Specifications

6 axis cobot

The wireless collaborative robot control system

Mobile terminal APP based on Andriod, iOS, Windows

3kG payload,7kG payload,12kG payload

Real graphical programming based on movable programming modules

Support C# language programming for system integration

Integrated driving control

Integrated joint module

Wide industry application

Zu series robots pioneered mobile terminal APP control mode, freeing the normal bulky teaching device and lengthy control lines, making the teaching process within the local space more convenient.

Support remote programming control collaboration without geographical restriction. It realizes the control of multiple robot bodies via one mobile terminal.

Through the web network, one mobile terminal can release program commands or task packages a variety of verified safely Zu series robots worldwide.

2. Flexiv Adaptive Robot-Rizon

Rizon is the world’s first adaptive robot that fuses high-performance force control, computer vision, and AI technology. It can adapt to changing and unsure environments and automate complex tasks with ‘hand-eye coordination’ a bit like a person’s. Compared with traditional and collaborative robots, Rizon has three distinguishing characteristics: a high tolerance for position variance, high disturbance rejection, and transferable intelligence.

Weight -19/33 Kg

Payload -4/10 Kg

Reach -780/920 mm

End effector force accuracy -0.1N/0.03N

There has been a boom in the market of robot manufacturing and research in the year 2020. The pandemic has surely given a boost to the robotics industry and we will continue to see this trend for many years to come.