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What is a Force Limited Robot?

With the relatively recent introduction of collaborative robots into the robotic market, a lot of different designs and concepts have been developed to insure human-robot collaboration. A couple years ago, these types of technologies weren't developed since this type of collaboration wasn't even possible. Now with the mass introduction of robots doing collaborative operations, it is logical to see more and more force limited robot concepts developed by robot manufacturers and integrators.

Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
By Mathieu Bélanger-Barrette
on Feb 10, 2015 in Robots. 3 min read time
What is a Force Limited Robot?

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