HelMo Stäubli has paired a six-axis collaborative robot arm with an automated guided vehicle (AGV) base. Once an operator has defined potential routes, this mobile system can autonomously navigate from one workstation to another and either work alongside humans or on its own. Potential tasks include pick and place, assembly and upstream or downstream operations alongside injection molding machines.
What’s new? The HelMo, which debuted in the U.S. in April at Automate 2019 and is scheduled to be available in 2020.
Benefits Flexibility. The company envisions the HelMo as a potential stand-in for a worker who might be absent, or to fill in during periods of increased demand. It can be programmed via enterprise resource planning software, teach pendant or smartphone. HelMo can be equipped with one of three models of Stäubli’s TX2-90 cobots. It has three laser scanners that monitor its surroundings for safe navigation, and it will slow down or stop depending on its proximity to humans.
Stäubli Corp., Duncan, S.C., 864-486-5421, www.staubli.com
