When the International Federation of Robots (IFR) first started collating collaborative robot data in 2017, this new breed of robot had a market share of just 2.8%. The IFR’s latest report showed that by 2021, that figure had leapt to 7.5%, with the number of newly deployed collaborative robots growing by 50% year-on-year to 38,966 units globally.
There are several reasons why cobots are gaining popularity. Firstly, they provide a solution to many of the challenges that manufacturers are facing in this ‘new normal’ era. In terms of flexibility, the cobot sits midway between an industrial robot and a human. This level of agility is valuable for accommodating the shorter product lifecycles…
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