Compact, user-friendly collaborative robots in our digital world

When it comes to Collaborative robots, I see the ability to enabling robots and humans to work safely side-by-side without any fences, while increasing production efficiency and quality.

In effect, Collaborative robots (cobots) optimize product quality and automate repetitive tasks. Cobots can redeploy human creativity. At the core of stakes we have: ease-of-use and ease of integration.

According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) compact, user-friendly collaborative robots are expected to drive the automation market. 

Its recent report predicts the worldwide annual sales of industrial robots to increase by at least 13% on average per year from 2017 to 2019. 

Industries predicted by IFR to adopt cobots at an increasing rate include automotive, the plastics industry, electronics assembly and the machine tool industry.  

The Americas region is expected to see strong continued cobot growth according to the IFR report. However, China is predicted to remain the main driver of robot growth, expanding its dominance with almost 40% of the global robot supply being installed in China by 2019.