Cobots Gaining Traction
Article from MHI Solutions Magazine
Today, you’re more likely to find collaborative robots (cobots) in manufacturing plants, but across industries, companies are increasingly turning to cobots as a solution for their warehouse and distribution center operations.
Facing a stubborn labor shortage, safety issues, the need to boost throughput and SKU proliferation, firms are using cobots to perform highly repetitive tasks that make jobs tedious and dangerous for human workers.
Cobots are designed to work safely alongside humans in shared workspaces, and unlike their human co‑workers, cobots can work 24‑7 and are better suited for lower value, repetitive tasks…
