The rise of collaborative robots (cobots) in industry has featured their use in a variety of applications where they work, uncaged, alongside humans. Most of the cobot implementations I have seen in the past few years revolve around using the robots for material handling and packaging uses, such as in medical device production and quality inspections.
With a new announcement from Universal Robots and ARC Specialties Inc., cobots now seem poised to extend their application further in industrial environments. The announcement centers on the release of the SnapWeld Collaborative Robot Welding package.
