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Common Robots lately introduced a change to the M8 connector on all of its e-Collection collaborative robotic arms (cobots). The connecter was modified from a male model to a feminine model. It mentioned the deliberate implementation will take impact in manufacturing cobots by the top of the primary quarter of 2024.
Common Robots, the world’s main developer of cobot arms, mentioned it additionally replace the software cap to suit with the brand new feminine model of the M8 connecter. The connector might be contained in the software cap as illustrated within the photos above. Common Robots mentioned it can present an adapter (15 cm adaptor cable, male – male M8) to melt the transition and allow instruments with the present connector sort.
“This [connector change] was launched as it’s a extra strong design and brings the e-Collection to match the brand new UR20/UR30 design so UR+ instruments and any finish effector connectors that use the software port might be suitable with each {hardware} generations,” a Common Robots spokesperson advised The Robotic Report.
Common Robots mentioned detailed details about the implantation date might be introduced throughout Q1 2024.
The UR30 cobot was launched in November 2023. It’s constructed on the identical structure because the UR20, however the UR30 gives extra payload capability in a compact footprint. With a 30 kg (66.13 lb.) lifting capability, 1,300 mm (51.2 in.) attain, and weight of 63.5 kg (139.9 lb.), the corporate mentioned the UR30 can have a tendency bigger machines, palletize heavy merchandise and assist high-torque screwdriving.
“We noticed some functions the place the UR20 was too huge,” Anders Billesø Beck, vp of technique and innovation at Common Robots, advised The Robotic Report when the UR30 was unveiled. “We’ve discovered that supreme mixture of measurement and energy.”
Common Robots is owned by Teradyne, an computerized check tools designer and producer primarily based in North Studying, Massachusetts. Teradyne might be releasing its monetary outcomes for the fourth quarter and full 12 months 2023 on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. Teradyne additionally owns Energid (movement management software program) and Cell Industrial Robots (autonomous cell robots). Teradyne merged AutoGuide Cell Robots with Cell Industrial Robots in late 2022.
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