“Collaborative robots – or cobots, as they’re called – are fairly new to North America. They’ve been widely used in Europe for nearly ten years now and their influence is still growing.”
and technical support to the menu here. It’s a matter of rec- ognizing that you already have firm footing ahead of you.”
Firm footing may be understating things. You’ll find some of the biggest names in advanced manufacturing hardware and software at Ragotcadcam.com. “We sell Mastercam, the leading CNC programming software, and we carry Verisurf, Cimco, Romer, and Universal Robots,” he said.
“It allows us to make manufacturing more competitive.”
Since 2008, the latter-mentioned collaborative robots have been used by manufacturers around the globe. According to Ragotcadcam.com, affordable and user-friendly Univer- sal Robots have “revolutionized the robotic market with their innovative robotic arms UR5 and UR10, which can handle payloads of up to 5 and 10 kilos respectively as well as the newly released UR3 model, which handles payloads up to 3 kilos and has a small footprint for smaller production environments with a lower cost.”
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