Assembly & Testing Technology
A new era in production – collaboration between humans and robots
AKE, together with a partner, developed a collaborative system for assembling connectors. We use the YuMi two-armed robot, which works hand in hand with its human colleague without any protective devices.
The worker performs the steps requiring dexterity and human intuition , such as the pre-assembly of the components . He then hands the component over to the YuMi robot. In our collaborative solutions, the robot is used for tiring tasks that nevertheless high precision and consistency . The robot handles specific positioning tasks where exact and repeatable work is paramount, as well as ergonomically challenging tasks.
Through a thorough and comprehensive safety assessment and a specialized safety concept , potential hazards in human-robot collaboration were eliminated.
In this way, we created a safe environment for this revolutionary type of production, combining the best of both worlds.