ABB has expanded its collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio with the GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, offering higher payloads and speeds, to complement YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABB's cobot line-up.
"These stronger, faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the company's expansion in high-growth segments including electronics, healthcare, consumer goods and logistics, among others, meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries," said a company spokesperson.
GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. "This will allow customers to operate their cobots within minutes of installation, straight out of the box, with no specialized training," said the spokesperson.
"Our new cobot portfolio offers the potential to transform workplaces and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth," said Sami Atiya, President of ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation Business Area. "They are easy to use and configure and are backed by our global network of on-call, online service experts to ensure that businesses of all sizes and new sectors of the economy can embrace robots for the first time."
GoFa and SWIFTI are engineered to help businesses automate processes and assist workers with tasks including material handling, machine tending, component assembly and packaging in manufacturing, medical laboratories, logistics hubs and warehouses, workshops and small production facilities.
"With this expansion, we are making cobots easier to use and deploy, with real-time support to help speed their adoption in businesses that may have not considered their use previously," Atiya said. "Our experience is that the best performing operations harness peoples' skills alongside the potential of new technologies."
Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and reprogram the new cobots using ABB's fast set-up tools.
For more information contact:
ABB Robotics, Inc.
1250 Brown Road
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
248-391-9000
www.abb.com/robotics