It is impossible to list all the innovations presented at the Global Industrie show in Lyon this week. If we had to retain a few salient points, no doubt we should be interested in the robot vs. cobot match? On the right, the robot represented by the giants of the sector: Fanuc, Mazak, Kuka, ABB, and their host of installers and resellers. The organizers have isolated a village of robotics, but overall, the robot is everywhere. As at Rexroth, a subsidiary of the Bosch group, determined not to be confined to photocopiers.
On the left, in its corner and still relatively isolated, just following the village of start-ups, the cobot, which can accompany manual tasks, without eliminating them completely. Is it really needed in the France factory, which is catching up on automation? Isn’t it just a last resort, and shouldn’t we leave it to the logisticians?
Flexible cobot versus powerful robot
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