{"id":4025,"date":"2018-09-06T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/active8robots.com\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2021-07-21T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:54:18","slug":"cobot-month-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/active8robots.com\/cobot-month-sawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobot of The Month- Sawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sawyer is a smart collaborative robot from Rethink Robotics, that is easy to program and has advanced features such as integrated vision and force feedback. Sawyer has redefined how robots are used in manufacturing around the world and offers a low cost, flexible automation solution to businesses.<\/p>\n

This cobot can be used for machine tending, circuit board testing and other precise tasks; with its actuators, the cobot can feel its way into fixtures. Sawyer is perfect for tasks that other industrial robots are not capable of completing due to their large footprints and lack of mobility.<\/p>\n

Sawyer is completely unique in the cobot world. Across its arm Sawyers has 7 degrees of freedom (mimicking the human arm), it is fully compliant and CE certified, and it has and embedded vision system with head and wrist cameras. Sawyer also boasts force feedback, adding to its safe use around humans, and is so easy to use that no programming knowledge is required due to the Intera software that it uses.<\/p>\n

Sawyer is faster, lighter, stronger and more precise than its older sister, Baxter. Sawyer has been specifically designed to be able to operate and reach in smaller areas and can work side-by side with humans in these spaces. This 1260mm reach means Sawyer can be used for a whole variety of new applications and the 7 degrees of freedom in the arm mean that it can even reach into the tightest of spaces. Unlike its sibling, Sawyer has a smaller footprint of just 2 by 2 by 5 feet, only one arm, weighs 42lb, and has a heavier payload of 8.8lb.<\/p>\n

Sawyer\u2019s new embedded vision system includes a head camera for wide view applications. The Cognex camera in its wrist allows it to support many complicated vision tasks. These two cameras combined means that rapid re-deployment and dynamic re-orientation takes even less time, and with many more features constantly being added, Sawyer will only keep on improving. <\/p>\n

Sawyer is incredibly adaptable-  watch it work on different applications in different factories around the world.<\/p>\n