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"duAro" Dual-arm SCARA Robot Now Launched

Kawasaki Robotics (UK) Ltd News and PR from Kawasaki Robotics (UK) Ltd - Published 16 June 2016 New Robot Offering for the Manufacturing of Products with Short Life Cycles
The duAro robot has been released in Asia.
The Americas and Europe product launches are scheduled for June 2016, to allow for safety requirements for collaborative operation with humans in those marketplaces to have been met. Until then, the duAro robot can be operated in conformance with local robot safety standards and regulations including safety fence.
Kawasaki Robotics has announced today that it has launched the "duAro" -an innovative & new, dual-arm SCARA robot that can coexist with humans in the workplace.

Industrial robots have been developed and intended mainly for mass production involving long product life cycles. However, in fields where new models are introduced frequently at intervals of a few months, automation is considered difficult despite demand for robotization, in terms of both preparation period and cost-effectiveness. Today, Kawasaki offers a brand-new robot that is applicable to such fields.

The new "duAro" robot's area of motion is the same as that of a person, with motions similar to those of human arms and independent movements for each arm, made possible because of its dual-arm configuration. Through our consistent pursuit of ease of use, we integrated two articulated arms that move simply in the horizontal direction, and we introduced direct teaching functionality into the robot's configuration, resulting in a robot that's both easy to teach and practical. With the integration of the body and controller into the wheeled base, the robot is quite easy to install and relocate.

The robot has two arms that reach horizontally from the body and that move together as a pair. This configuration can easily perform operations similar to those of a person using both arms within a one-person space. Equipped with a collision detection function and a safety function that slows down its motion when near a person, the robot can be reliably operated in tandem with the operations of workers adjacent to the machine.

The name of the dual-arm robot, "duAro," is a combination of two English words-dual and robot. With this name, we intend to highlight the concept of a dual-arm machine that can provide users with a sense of reliability, security, and approachability.

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The duAro robot has been released in Asia

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