Industrial technology and automation company Festo has unveiled what it describes as“the first pneumatic collaborative robot”, saying it marks a“new era in human-robot collaboration” What if there was ...

Concept: German industrial control and automation company Festo has launched the world’s first pneumatic collaborative robot (cobot) that is cheaper than electric robots with the same functionalities.

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Robots with six axes of motion are commonly considered to have the highest level of axes available for articulated robots and cobots (collaborative robots). One well-known addition to this is a ...

As robots become more common to production operations, we’re seeing an increase in additional devices—from specialized end effectors to additional axes—made available to enable specific manufacturing ...