Collaborative Robot Series : FRIDA from ABB [Video]

In industrial automation, flexibility and intuitiveness are becoming more and more the sinew of war. In fact due to the necessity to produce in efficient ways in order to be economically viable, industrial robotics has to do a mindset change: be flexible, accessible (re: moneywise) and easy to use (i.e. not spending more time to program a process than to produce a product).

This quest for flexibility and user-friendlyness has seen the arrival of a new generation of industrial robots: the collaborative robots. This articles is the first of a series of posts dedicated to the introduction of this new generation of robots. In this blog post we will introduce FRIDA from ABB.

FRIDA: An Introduction

FRIDA (which stands for Friendly Robot for Industrial Dual-Arm) is a dual-arm robot with 14 axis of freedom (7 in each arm). The size of this industrial robot is similar to a small adult. This concept has …