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Medical Robots

Medical robots, according to Robotics.org, are a type of professional service robot used in and out of hospital settings to improve the overall level of patient care. They ease the workload of medical staff, allowing them to spend more time caring directly for patients while creating major operational efficiencies and cost reductions for healthcare facilities. These are the types of robots that are most prominent today in response to coronavirus pandemic.

 

Aquatic Robots

Aquatic robots can sail, submerge or crawl underwater, Robotic fish can be used during human-induced ecological disasters that are affecting life in aquatic environments, such as oil spills, and man-made structures, such as dams, Driving force on aquatic robots can be tails, fins, thrusters, wings, thrusters, paddles, paddle wheels, air pumps, etc, based on your robot design.

Furthermore, owing to the wide array of opportunities for industrial robots, they are further different varieties across the manufacturing sector. Here are some of the most common types of industrial robots.

 

SCARA

Less than 50% of the people who work on them know it stands for either selective compliance assembly robot arm, or selective compliance articulated robot arm. They are, however, more limited in their application than 6-axis arms, moving primarily in a horizontal plane. The basic idea behind these robots is that they combine powered horizontal “shoulder” and “elbow” joints to allow it to fold and reach a variety of positions on an x/y plane.

 

Delta Robot

Delta robots consist of three sets of motor-driven parallelograms, allowing an end effector to stay level while moving at high speeds in a Cartesian (x, y, z) plane. While generally limited to the manipulation of light parts, their speed can present a huge advantage over other ‘bots on this list. They move fast enough that they can be difficult for humans to visually track.

Apart from the aforementioned classification, one of the newest forms of robots that are emerging are humanoids and cobots (collaborative robots).

 

Cobots

Collaborative robots, referred to as cobots or co-robots, are the newest type of robots designed to interact with people in a shared work environment. They account for only five percent of the record global industrial robot sales. Today, cobots have become a key part of production in many factories. Still, the majority of people scarcely know the difference between cobots and traditional industrial robots.

The classic industry robot is autonomous and once set to carry out a certain activity by a trained programmer, it is left to perform the task following the fixed program. Cobots, on the other hand, work with people and behave smartly. They are left in the open just like any staff to work in partnership with other workers. They assist in completing complex tasks that cannot fully be automated. They come in handy in a process that is highly repetitive or droning tasks.

 

Humanoids

Humanoid robots are professional service robots built to mimic human motion and interaction. Like all service robots, they provide value by automating tasks in a way that leads to cost-savings and productivity. Humanoid robots are a relatively new form of professional service robots. While long-dreamt about, they’re now starting to become commercially viable in a wide range of applications.

The humanoid robot market is poised for significant growth. It’s projected the market for humanoid robots will be valued at US$3.9 Billion in 2023, growing at a staggering 52.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2017 and 2023.