Stäubli Robotics’s advanced robots help manufacturers meet new challenges and changing market demands across a range of industries worldwide. Stäubli works with systems integrators, OEMS and end users to engineer solutions for some of the most pressing issues facing manufacturers today. While relatively new to factory floors, robotic machine tending offers solutions to age-old pressures to improve efficiency and productivity without compromising quality or safety. As requirements grow stricter, the drive to modernize production is taking on greater urgency. Stäubli’s machine tending technologies use a stationary TX2-60 HE (Humid Environment) robot, capable of washing parts and tools, working in tandem with a HelMo mobile robot. The TX2-60 will load and unload products, then inspect and mark them. As it carries out these tasks, the HelMo robot glides along autonomously, loading and unloading pallets of finished parts with accuracy in the range of tenths of a millimeter. With a CS9 controller, three laser scanners, a tactile enclosure and optional safe skin, HelMo is also a reliable cobot (collaborative robot) working safely alongside humans while relieving them of repetitive and dangerous tasks. As trends toward more customization, small batch orders and shorter production cycles continue, flexibility is top of mind for manufacturers. Stäubli makes it a cornerstone of product development. The company’s high-precision laser cutting process with a TX2-160L HDP (High Dynamic Precision) robot demonstrates exceptional path accuracy at various cutting speeds, high rigidity, and ability to access complex parts. The TX2-160L HDP’s precision is repeatable across all trajectories and orientations, accommodating different shapes, contours, thicknesses, and other parameters. A versatile tool changer enables it to easily switch from cutting to inspection. Stäubli’s TX2 range of six-axis industrial robots are suitable for applications in all manufacturing environments, thanks to unique features which include: