The Collaborative Robotics Sector continues to evolve with the addition of smaller platforms, in addition to programs able to dealing with a lot heavier payloads. Cellular collaborative robots are additionally underneath growth.
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Collaborative robots – or cobots – have gotten a mainstream expertise. As they do, new kinds of cobot are being launched, and new industries are being focused. On this article, we check out quite a lot of current cobot developments.
Bigger Payloads
In 2021, gentle obligation cobots (with payloads of <10 kg), accounted for 83% of complete shipments. Bigger payload cobots (with payloads of >10 kg) accounted for 17%. This market share will develop slowly over time, notably within the 10-12 kg vary as they penetrate new situations the place heavy lifting is concerned such because the semiconductor trade, automotive and logistics.
Mainstream cobot producers comparable to Common Robotics (UR), Techman and AUBO are main distributors of fashions with these bigger payloads. Moreover, as a result of heavier cobots are costlier, the market share improve when it comes to income will present a extra spectacular improve, from 20% in 2021 to 25% by 2026 (Determine 1, beneath).
Determine 1: Collaborative Robotic Shipments by Payload 2018 – 2026 (Supply: Work together Evaluation)
Smaller Cobots
On the different finish of the spectrum, very small collaborative robots are additionally gaining traction within the markets. Desktop collaborative robotic arms with payloads of round 500g are seeing better use in precision operations in industries comparable to electronics. Kawasaki, ABB and DOBOT are large gamers right here.
Work together Evaluation anticipate that cell cobots will make up greater than 10% of the whole cobot market by 2025, and that there can be over 11,000 models shipped in 2026.
Cellular Cobots
The cell collaborative robotic, comparable to these produced by FANUC, the place the collaborative arm is mounted on a cell chassis, has seen pretty restricted deployment throughout the commercial sector. In distinction, cell robotics options have been deployed in some markets.
The primary obstacles to cell manipulators have been technological – find out how to obtain built-in performance throughout key elements of the robotic – the chassis, the sensors, the robotic arm, and the end-effectors. These challenges have had an affect on pricing. However expertise has superior, and we’re starting to see better market acceptance of those machines.
The semiconductor trade – a sector which is a serious investor in automated gear – accounted massive portion of cell cobot deployments in 2021, the expertise being utilized in such situations wafer manufacturing and packaging, in addition to loading, unloading, and materials dealing with. The second largest end-user of cell cobots is the brand new power sector, the place purposes embrace energy inspection, information heart inspection and the screen-printing course of within the photovoltaic trade. In the meantime, the third largest market is client electronics.
Enormous Potential
At Work together Evaluation we see large potential within the utility of cell cobots on manufacturing manufacturing traces, mainly as a result of they convey the pliability that trendy manufacturing more and more calls for. Nevertheless, cell cobots can be rapidly deployed in non-manufacturing situations comparable to warehouses and automatic supermarkets. Different area of interest purposes being researched or piloted are schooling, medication, file administration and pharmacy administration.
Determine 2: Mounted and Cellular Collaborative Robotic Shipments (Supply: Work together Evaluation)
Work together Evaluation anticipate that cell cobots will make up greater than 10% of the whole cobot market by 2025, and that there can be over 11,000 models shipped in 2026. While the expertise will solely take a minority share of the market, it should have a a lot greater year-on-year development fee than its static counterpart.
At current, autonomous cell robotics producers dominate the cell manipulator market with a close to 70% share, with collaborative robotic producers additionally growing their very own personalized cell options and taking a ten% slice of the market.
Cellular Collaborative Robotic Producers
Within the preliminary levels of cell collaborative robotic manufacturing (cell manipulators), machines have been developed primarily by enterprises that had cell chassis and cobot manufacturing capabilities, comparable to Omron and Siasun. Methods integrators additionally performed an vital function, buying cell chassis and collaborative robotic arms for personalized meeting. A current development has been for cell robotic corporations and collaborative robotic distributors to cooperate within the growth and manufacturing of cell collaborative options.
At current, autonomous cell robotics producers dominate the cell manipulator market with a close to 70% share, with collaborative robotic producers additionally growing their very own personalized cell options and taking a ten% slice of the market. Buyer venture targeted integrators occupy the rest, basing their choices on their capacity to tailor their answer to the wants of bespoke initiatives that they’re already managing.
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Concerning the Creator
Maya Xiao, Senior Analyst at Work together Evaluation, has an interdisciplinary technical background in automobile electrification, system automation and robotics. Based mostly in China, she is the lead analyst for Work together Evaluation’ Li-ion battery and forklift analysis, additionally overlaying markets for industrial and collaborative robots.
