Industrial robots are intelligent robots that utilize modern electronic technology and mechanical hand and foot joints to mimic the movements of the human body and perform work in special hazardous locations. Industrial robots are a branch of robotics applications, like robots, is a repeatable programmable, and multifunctional for handling materials, parts, tools, and operating tools. It is a specialized system with changeable and reprogrammable movements to perform different tasks.
History of Industrial Robotics
Industrial robots first came into use in the late 1950s. Using inspiration related to servo systems, Joseph F. Englberger, together with George Devol, developed an industrial robot, the Unimate ( Unimate”, which was the first to be used on the production floor of General Motors in 1961.
At the end of the 1970s, the United States Animation launched the P series of robots, multi-joint, multi-CPU secondary computer control, fully electric, with a special VAL language and vision, and force sensors, which marked the industrial robot technology fully mature. P is still working on the factory front line.
In the 1980s, the robot entered the popularization period, with the development of the manufacturing industry, so industrial robots in developed countries to popularized, and high-speed, high-precision, lightweight, complete sets of serialization and intelligent development to meet the needs of more varieties, less batch.
In the 1990s, with the progress and development of computer technology, and intelligent technology, the second generation of robots with certain sensory functions became practical and began to promote, with vision, tactile, high dexterity fingers, the ability to walk the third generation of intelligent robots appeared and began to move towards application.
Components of Industrial Robots
1. Applications in palletizing
Highly automated robots are widely used in palletizing various factories. Manual palletizing is very intensive and labor-intensive, and the employees not only need to bear great pressure but also have low working efficiency. According to the characteristics of the objects to be handled and the places where the objects are classified, the handling robot can carry out efficient classification and handling on the basis of keeping its shape and the nature of the objects unchanged, so that the crating equipment can complete the palletizing task of hundreds of pieces per hour, in the production line loading and unloading, container handling, and other aspects of its important role.
2. Application in welding
Welding robots are mainly responsible for welding work, different types of industries have different industrial needs, so common welding robots have spot welding robots, arc welding robots, laser robots, and so on. The automobile manufacturing industry is the most widely used welding robot industry, in the welding difficulty, welding quantity, welding quality and other aspects of artificial welding have an incomparable advantage.
3. Application in assembly
In industrial production, the assembly of parts is a huge amount of work, requiring large labor, once human assembly because of the high error rate, and low efficiency, and gradually replaced by industrial robots. The development of assembly robots combines a variety of technologies, including communication technology, automatic control, optical principles, microelectronics technology, and so on. According to the assembly process, the developers write appropriate programs and apply them to specific assembly work. The most important features of assembly robots are high installation precision, flexibility, and durability. Because of the complexity and fineness of the assembly work, we choose assembly robots to carry out the installation of electronic parts and fine automobile parts.
4. Application in inspection
Robot has multi-dimensional additional functions. It can replace the staff in special positions, such as in high-risk areas such as nuclear contamination areas, toxic areas, nuclear contamination areas, and high-risk unknown areas for detection. There are also places where humans cannot specifically reach, such as the detection of sick parts of the patient, the detection of industrial defects, and the detection of life at the scene of earthquake relief have been established.
Industrial robots are widely used in various industrial fields such as electronics, logistics, chemical industry, etc.; they have become an important symbol of a country's manufacturing level and scientific and technological level.