Cobot Enters Paint Industry With Safety at the Forefront

Robots are often integrated on a shop floor to complete jobs that might be dangerous for an operator. However, some environments are not completely suitable for robots for safety reasons. For instance, until recently, there was not a collaborative paint robot available that was explosion-proof, making powder coating and painting in a spray booth with a collaborative robot (cobot) potentially dangerous. But with the development of the explosion-proof CRX-10iA/L Paint cobot from FANUC (Rochester Hills, Michigan), safety and environmental standards for powder coating and paint booths in the U.S., Europe and Asia have been met. This cobot also includes a critical and unique enhancement for a cobot environment: a force sensor in each joint, which enables lead-through teaching and hands-on programming.