A brief discussion on the development frontier of collaborative robots

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is generally considered to be a manufacturing technology that integrates the physical digital worlds, with artificial intelligence, robotics , the Internet of Things 3D printing as the main driving forces. Unlike Industry 4.0, which focuses on industrial production, the Fourth Industrial Revolution covers the cognition impact of technological changes on human society as a whole.

Wikipedia defines Industry 4.0 as the combination of CPS cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing. Its concrete carrier is generally called a "smart factory," which enables machines to communicate with each other, inform each other of their mistakes during production, identify order insufficient production materials. Industry 4.0 is primarily about applying the Internet to manufacturing. Under this general trend, collaborative robots will play an important role in Industry 4.0.

Collaborative robots will play an important role in Industry 4.0

As a new type of intelligent production equipment, most collaborative robots fully comply with the design principles of Industry 4.0. They are equipped with powerful industrial computers, can achieve interconnection in any factory, can easily access the Internet of Things. Collaborative robots collect data pass it to other systems for analysis modeling, improve information transparency, , although collaborative robots are used more as tools for operators than as self-automatic devices, their application can still promote decentralized decision-making.

Collaborative robots have broad development prospects

Because collaborative robots are versatile, easy to program, cost-effective, they play an important role in companies' automated production processes. Collaborative robots are also being widely used in small medium-sized enterprises companies of different sizes in developing countries.

At the same time, the versatility, user-friendliness small footprint of collaborative robots also make them very suitable for completing automated production processes, thereby achieving the comprehensive development of robotic automation helping companies around the world quickly join the global automation wave.