Evolution of Industrial Robots and their Applications

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Abstract--The advancement of industrial robotics has caused robots to become more widespread across various industries ranging from manufacturing to health care. Robots offer speed and accuracy that can’t be achieved with human labour. Robots can also reduce operating costs, reduce scrap and are flexible for future changes. Few other manufacturing solutions can reduce waste as well as robots when designed into the system properly. Robotics ’ capabilities have only increased with time, while costs have continued to fall. Major robot manufacturers are constantly upgrading their robots with increased payload capacity, greater accuracy, increased reach and range of motion, improved speed and acceleration, faster communication with external equipment, better safety features and lower operational costs. Many people believe the misconception that robots have taken away jobs from workers, but that is not necessarily true. Robots have created new jobs for those who were once on production lines with programming. They have pulled employees from repetitive, monotonous jobs and put them in better, more challenging ones. Today robots are user-friendly, intelligent, and affordable. This paper briefly describes robot technology and goes into more depth about where robots are used. A