Sawyer Collaborative Robot

A new era of manufacturing has begun

 

 

The long-standing idea of robots as caged, complicated and inflexible has given way to a new model of collaboration between workers and machines. Factory automation is no longer reserved for a handful of high volume industries and applications. We’ve brought it out of the cage and onto the production floor, working interactively with people throughout the line.

 

Introducing Sawyer, the revolutionary new High Performance Collaborative Robot designed to execute machine tending, circuit board testing, and other precise tasks that are impractical to automate with industrial robots. Sawyer is a significant addition to the Rethink Robotics family of Smart Collaborative Robots, giving manufacturers the high-performance automation they need for a wider range of tasks, while maintaining the critical flexibility, safety and interactive user experience that have become synonymous with the Rethink Robotics brand.

 

Weighing only 19 kg (Sawyer features 7 degrees of freedom with a 1+ meter reach that can manoeuvre into the tight spaces and varied alignments of work cells designed for humans.  Its compliant motion control allows it to “feel” its way into fixtures or machines, even when the position varies slightly.  This enables our adaptive precision that is unique in the robotics industry and allows Sawyer to work effectively in semi-structured environments, while operating safely next to human co-workers.