// ROBOTICS AND SMART FACTORIES TERM
Collaborative Robot
Robots designed to work safely alongside humans in shared workspaces, often without physical barriers. They are equipped with safety features to prevent harm.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
Collaborative robots (cobots) are industrial robots engineered for direct human-robot interaction and shared workspace operation, leveraging safety features like force sensing and speed monitoring to prevent harm and augment human capabilities.
BACKGROUND
Smart manufacturing is a broad category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated manufacturing, high levels of adaptability and rapid design changes, digital information technology, and more flexible technical workforce training. Other goals sometimes include fast changes in production levels based on demand, optimization of the supply chain, efficient production and recyclability. In this concept, a smart factory has interoperable systems, multi-scale dynamic modelling and simulation, intelligent automation, strong cyber security, and networked sensors.
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- Cobot
- Human-robot collaborative robot
- Co-robot
USAGE NOTE
Cobots are increasingly used for tasks requiring both human dexterity and robotic precision, such as assembly or quality inspection.