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Closing the Gap Between Collaborative And Industrial Robots ABB’s new SWIFTI cobot enables collaborative working at industrial speeds
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ffering speeds of five meters per second, SWIFTI is a fast and accurate collaborative industrial robot for payloads up to four kilograms, designed to bridge the gap between collaborative and industrial robotics. ABB is enhancing its collaborative robot family with a new industrial cobot which combines enhanced collaborative safety measures and ease of use with the speed, robustness and precision of an industrial robot. Based on ABB’s class-leading IRB 1100 industrial robot, which offers best in class speed and accuracy, the CRB (Collaborative
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Robot) 1100 SWIFTI™ combines it's payload capacity with a reach of up to 580-millimeters with the benefits of safe collaborative operation and ease of use. This will open new possibilities for en-hanced productivity in a wide range of applications, from manufacturing to logistics and beyond, and enable more businesses to embrace automation. SWIFTI offers a maximum Tool Center Point (TCP) speed of more than five meters per second, which is more than five times higher than other cobots in its class and comparable with industrial robots. Designed to support intermittent collaboration between human and
