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The SensONE T80 mounted on a Common Robotic collaborative robotic arm. | Supply: Bota Methods
Bota Methods AG, a developer of multi-axis, force-torque sensors, final week launched the SensONE T80. The Zurich-based firm mentioned it designed its newest sensor for bigger collaborative robots. The SensONE T80 options ISO-standard flanges on either side and is meant to simplify integration and guarantee accuracy even with heavier payloads.
The SensONE T80 is supplied with ISO-9409-1-80-6-M8 flanges. These instantly match the mounting flanges on the newest cobots from Common Robots, eliminating the necessity for an adapter. Bota Methods mentioned this eliminates the necessity for extra engineering to design adapter mounting tools, considerably decreasing time to market.
The sensor additionally consists of an ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 flange to accommodate third-party units appropriate with Common Robots, facilitating the event of latest interfaces.
“This sensor, that includes ISO flanges on either side, is an ideal match for the UR20 and UR30 fashions,” mentioned Susanne Noerdinger, the top of ecosystem success for Europe, the Center East, and Africa (EMEA) at Common Robots.
“It offers a high-precision, direct-fit resolution that simplifies integration for our prospects, enabling them to leverage the complete capabilities of our cobots in demanding functions like heavy palletizing and welding,” she added. “This collaboration with Bota Methods will increase the sensitivity and precision of options with UR, giving our prospects the instruments they should innovate and automate extra successfully.”
The SensONE T80 sensor is designed for simple integration with UR cobot arms. Supply: Bota Methods
A lighter sensor means extra payload capability, says Bota Methods
A robotic force-torque sensor measures pressure and torque utilized to its floor. Utilizing these real-time measurements in suggestions management allows robots to carry out advanced interplay duties with precision.
Bota Methods mentioned that by eradicating the necessity for an adapter, the general weight of the sensor meeting is minimized. This permits the robotic’s payload capability to be totally used for materials dealing with fairly than merely supporting end-of-arm tooling.
As well as, the elimination of adapters reduces the chance of utilizing inappropriate supplies that might compromise sensor stiffness and have an effect on measurement accuracy, the corporate famous.
“The SensONE T80 is especially useful for functions resembling heavy palletizing and tightening duties (usually dealt with by the UR30) and welding (widespread for the UR20),” acknowledged Klajd Lika, co-founder and CEO of Bota Methods. “Extra functions embrace large-scale sanding and sharpening, precision mechanical meeting, and face matching/alignment of heavy workpieces, resembling in CNC loader operations.”
The SensONE T80 can deal with as much as 80Nm of torque. Its peak-to-peak noise (measured at six instances the usual deviation) is 0.3N for pressure measurements and 0.012Nm for torque, reaching the identical precision ranges as sensors used for lower-payload cobots.
Bota Methods mentioned its torque vary helps the complete payload capacities for cobots together with the 25 kg and 35 kg capacities not too long ago launched for the UR20 and the UR30, respectively.
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Spun out of ETH Zurich in 2020, Bota Methods mentioned its SensONE sensors allow human-machine interplay and might present pressure, imaginative and prescient, and inertia knowledge. The firm, which exhibited at RoboBusiness final week, mentioned its sensors can be utilized in quite a lot of robotics functions, together with rehabilitation, precision meeting, product testing, sharpening and grinding, and surgical procedure.
In April, Bota Methods launched PixONE, a sensor that brings collectively high-performance electronics with a compact, light-weight design. The corporate mentioned it designed these sensors for “seamless integration into robotic methods.”
PixONE incorporates a through-hole structure facilitating inside cable routing to boost robotic agility and security, claimed the corporate.
Bota Methods additionally introduced a brand new Buyer Expertise Heart at at HEIDENHAIN’s CONNECT Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Fremont, Calif. The brand new heart will present its full portfolio of force-torque sensors alongside a Mecademic robotic demonstrating cutting-edge functions. Guests can see how these sensors can optimize robotic efficiency in a spread of commercial settings.
The Buyer Expertise Heart at HEIDENHAIN Join Innovation Hub in California. Supply: Bota Methods
