Industrial robots
Manual remote control for industrial robots
Kawasaki Robotics announces the "Successor", a system for manual control of industrial robots that implements the user's movements. Kawasaki will use the system for the first time in its own robot production at the Nishi-Kobe plant (Japan) and make it available to selected customers as part of initial pilot projects in 2018.
Successor is expected to be available internationally in 2019. The system will celebrate its European premiere from April 17 to 20, 2018: Successor will be presented at the Kawasaki Robotics stand at PaintExpo in Karlsruhe. Successor is based on a newly developed remote control that enables the collaborative use of robots in numerous applications - the system is fully compatible with most Kawasaki robots. Thanks to the system's artificial intelligence (AI), it is able to learn manual motion sequences and reproduce them independently.
This facilitates the use of robots in areas where this was previously difficult or only possible to a limited extent - including the production of individual orders, the processing of deviating workpieces or other situations where human intuition and flexibility are required. The system is also able to learn movements entered by experienced specialists and pass them on to beginners via a special feedback system: Haptic, visual and acoustic impressions enable them to quickly learn the operation and movement sequences. sw
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