Collaborative robots in Sri Lanka
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State Minister for Commerce and Industry, Champika Premadasa
takes a close look at a ‘co-bot’. Two officials of Universal
Robots look on. |
Universal Robots, a Danish robot manufacturer, which invented and
pioneered collaborative robots or 'co-bots' as they are popularly
called, presented this technology to the Sri Lankan market at the Hilton
Hotel on Thursday.
The event was attended by the key stakeholders that define this
technology, including the General Manager of the company (India and Sri
Lanka region) and Government representatives and customers.
Collaborative robots, are a technology upgrade from industrial robots
which are designed to collaborate and work with humans and assist them
in a variety of tasks.
Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Esben stergaard said, "Collaborative
robotic technology can be used to benefit all aspects of task-based
businesses irrespective of their size. Our robot arms are advanced tools
that can be used by all levels of production staff to help increase
productivity, and quality." General Manager, Universal Robots, Pradeep
David said, "The growth of the economy of a nation, would be gauged by
increasing productivity in industry as a whole and in future co-bots
would be a critically important factor as Human-Robot Collaboration is
an integral part of Industry 4.0." |
