The Collaborative Robotics Sector continues to evolve with the addition of smaller platforms, in addition to techniques able to dealing with a lot heavier payloads. Cell collaborative robots are additionally below growth.
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Collaborative robots – or cobots – have gotten a mainstream expertise. As they do, new forms of cobot are being launched, and new industries are being focused. On this article, we check out numerous current cobot tendencies.
Bigger Payloads
In 2021, gentle obligation cobots (with payloads of <10 kg), accounted for 83% of whole shipments. Bigger payload cobots (with payloads of >10 kg) accounted for 17%. This market share will develop slowly over time, significantly within the 10-12 kg vary as they penetrate new eventualities the place heavy lifting is concerned such because the semiconductor business, 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 by way of income will present a extra spectacular improve, from 20% in 2021 to 25% by 2026 (Determine 1, under).
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 higher use in precision operations in industries comparable to electronics. Kawasaki, ABB and DOBOT are large gamers right here.
Work together Evaluation anticipate that cellular cobots will make up greater than 10% of the full cobot market by 2025, and that there shall be over 11,000 models shipped in 2026.
Cell Cobots
The cellular collaborative robotic, comparable to these produced by FANUC, the place the collaborative arm is mounted on a cellular chassis, has seen pretty restricted deployment throughout the economic sector. In distinction, cellular robotics options have been deployed in some markets.
The principle limitations to cellular manipulators have been technological – tips on 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 impression on pricing. However expertise has superior, and we’re starting to see higher market acceptance of those machines.
The semiconductor business – a sector which is a serious investor in automated tools – accounted giant portion of cellular cobot deployments in 2021, the expertise being utilized in such eventualities wafer manufacturing and packaging, in addition to loading, unloading, and materials dealing with. The second largest end-user of cellular cobots is the brand new power sector, the place purposes embrace energy inspection, knowledge heart inspection and the screen-printing course of within the photovoltaic business. In the meantime, the third largest market is client electronics.
Large Potential
At Work together Evaluation we see large potential within the software of cellular cobots on manufacturing manufacturing traces, mainly as a result of they convey the flexibleness that fashionable manufacturing more and more calls for. Nonetheless, cellular cobots may also be rapidly deployed in non-manufacturing eventualities comparable to warehouses and automatic supermarkets. Different area of interest purposes being researched or piloted are schooling, drugs, file administration and pharmacy administration.
Determine 2: Fastened and Cell Collaborative Robotic Shipments (Supply: Work together Evaluation)
Work together Evaluation anticipate that cellular cobots will make up greater than 10% of the full cobot market by 2025, and that there shall be over 11,000 models shipped in 2026. While the expertise will solely take a minority share of the market, it is going to have a a lot greater year-on-year progress fee than its static counterpart.
At current, autonomous cellular robotics producers dominate the cellular manipulator market with a close to 70% share, with collaborative robotic producers additionally creating their very own custom-made cellular options and taking a ten% slice of the market.
Cell Collaborative Robotic Producers
Within the preliminary phases of cellular collaborative robotic manufacturing (cellular manipulators), machines had been developed primarily by enterprises that had cellular chassis and cobot manufacturing capabilities, comparable to Omron and Siasun. Methods integrators additionally performed an necessary function, buying cellular chassis and collaborative robotic arms for custom-made meeting. A current pattern has been for cellular robotic corporations and collaborative robotic distributors to cooperate within the growth and manufacturing of cellular collaborative options.
At current, autonomous cellular robotics producers dominate the cellular manipulator market with a close to 70% share, with collaborative robotic producers additionally creating their very own custom-made cellular options and taking a ten% slice of the market. Buyer challenge centered integrators occupy the rest, basing their choices on their skill to tailor their resolution to the wants of bespoke tasks 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 car 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 protecting markets for industrial and collaborative robots.