Collaborative robot (cobot)
Robot colaborativo (cobot UR5)
- Date
- 2008 · confidence high
- Place
- Universal Robots, Odense, Denmark
- Credited to
- Esben Østergaard, Kasper Støy and Kristian Kassow (Universal Robots); concept by Edward Colgate and Michael Peshkin (Northwestern, 1996)
- People
- 👤 Esben Østergaard👤 Kasper Støy1973–👤 Kristian Kassow
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A lightweight robotic arm, safe to work alongside people without cages and programmable by demonstration. It brought robotics to small businesses.
What it led to
- The automation of small and medium-sized businesses and workshops
- Easy-to-program robotics and robots guided by language models
- Warehouses with mixed human and robot workforces
Built on
- Electric articulated robot arm (Stanford Arm, PUMA)1969-1978
- PUMA robotic arm
- torque sensors
- force control
Made possible
- SME automation
- laboratory robots