Interfaces & Teleoperation

3D Mouse Move is a plugin to control the robot in real time and in any arbitrary direction or rotation. Simply, once you shift and tilt the SpaceMouse, the robot tool will follow the same tilt and shift. UR users position the robot easily by hands using the freedrive button. Yet, when the robot is out of the operator’s reach, 3D Mouse Move replicates the same intuitive experience. Such cases happen if the robot is inside another room or within inaccessible areas by the operator. 3D Mouse Move can be used to teach the robot during programming or controlling the robot real-time to perform tasks such as scanning, painting, shooting a video, pick-and-place, etc.

Teach Pendant with 3-Position Enabling Device, compatible with all e-Series robots. The Teach Pendant is ergonomically designed for easy operation with either hand. Fully integrated design features simple plug-and-play installation with no additional wiring needed. Natively supported in Polyscope 5.10 and higher, with no URCap needed.

The NAST Automation 5 LED signal light is designed for visual monitoring of the production process, changes in status and faults. A comfortable URCap simplifies installation and programming.

The easy way to tele-operate Universal Robots: Advanced Mechanics Assistance System (AMAS) from Extend Robotics allows a Universal Robot to be tele-operated by a remote user over the Internet. Using an off-the-shelf virtual reality headset and handsets, intuitive arm-and-hand gestures can be used to control the robot in every degree-of-freedom and actuate the end-effectors.Within the AMAS virtual reality environment, user is immersed in a game-like 3D representation of the robot's workspace. This 3D environment is generated using a small peripheral SenseKit attachment that fits to the base of the Universal Robot. Thereby allowing a non-technical user to tele-operate the arm from any remote location over any network, either local or Internet.Why is this useful? Tele-operation can be used in situations where it is hard to achieve full automation. It can also be used to maintain continuity in workflows at times when it is inconvenient to go into the workplace (for example: unloading a 3D-print or a CNC machine over the weekend; refreshing the feedstock; or initiating a new job). Please contact us if you need any further information or would like a demonstration.

Today’s manufacturers want to automate manual tasks with robots, but getting robots up and running is complex, expensive, and can leave you feeling overwhelmed. At Robotiq, we believe robots should simplify your life, not make it more complicated. Working with manufacturers globally (and being one ourselves!), we understand the challenges of maintaining quality, delivering on time, and keeping costs down amidst the labor shortage. Since 2008, Robotiq has pursued its mission of freeing human hands from repetitive tasks by enabling more than 13,000 collaborative robots, or "cobots," worldwide. From SMEs to multinational companies, we're helping manufacturers simplify their processes with easy-to-use automation solutions. Manufacturers want their operations to run smoothly with as little downtime as possible. Automation is often considered, but quickly dropped because of the perception that it is complex and expensive. At Robotiq, we tackle this challenge by making solutions that are actually easy to use. The Machine Tending Solution is the only solution you need to automate your CNC machines. Combined with our worldwide distribution network, you can automate a CNC machine in hours instead of weeks. How can we back that bold statement? The new version of Machine Tending Copilot was developed with the operator in mind. Cobots are simpler to use than industrial robots, but a machine-tending application is still complicated. For this reason, traditional programming can quickly get overwhelming. That’s why our Machine Tending Copilot software guides users through programming from start to finish. With key waypoints and action menus, programming is 75% faster than with traditional methods. Once the key waypoints are created, the user is guided to refine each operation with our action menus—from picking the workpiece to defining pre-programmed cleaning patterns . Since we know that every second counts in the manufacturing process, we’ve created the Smart Move. Using the Machine Tending Copilot algorithm, the robot finds the optimal path from point A to point B without colliding with the environment. This technology can shave up to 15% off your cycle time and shortens setup and downtime, which ultimately gets the machine up and running faster. Earn a quick ROI even with high-mix, low-volume automation; with accelerated program creation, Copilot does the hard work for you. External modules manage communication with the machine interface, so there is no need to open or alter the machine in any way. This approach, which is similar to the way an operator would do the job, makes our solution compatible with almost all machine brands and models. We supply an external control box and pneumatic enclosure to accelerate installation. Custom solutions can be costly and time-consuming to integrate, but the Machine Tending Solution takes less than two hours to deploy and machine your first part—no coding experience required. Elevate your workforce with easy-to-use robot solutions that do the work for you.

Dardo is a vision-based pointing device that allows unprecedented fast and precise cobot teaching, including waypoints and whole trajectories. Dardo is composed of a pen-shaped, totally passive pointing device and a flange-mounted camera. Dardo has been designed having in mind precision-sensitive applications such as welding. Check out Dardo, your next tool for precise and easy robot programming.

The e-Series Injection Molding Machine Interface (IMMI) option provides standardized connectivity between an e-Series robot and injection molding machinery. The IMMI is a separately orderable option for all e-Series robots and supports both EUROMAP 67 and SPI AN-146.

Via the “functionally safe” radio connection, the M2Smart®️ HMI10 makes it possible to meet the high requirements in terms of safety equipment of a machine or a robot even with a wireless control system. Both the emergency stop button, which is obligatory in this environment, and a three-stage enabling button (3 PE) are located directly on the mobile handheld computer. The corresponding signals are transmitted to the M2Smart®️ Gateway via a black-channel-secured BT-compatible short-range radio.

Mimic is an intuitive software platform that captures and transfers workers’ organic hand movements into robots by demonstration. It allows automation of complex tool paths that are too difficult and time consuming to program with a traditional point-to-point approach. It is a modular and open software platform, which means that users maintain control of their robot, can use their own tracking technology and work with both handheld and robotic tools they already know. The Mimic UR Kit consists of Nordbo Robotics’ pose tracker sensor and a corresponding URCap, ensuring an easy plug and play experience. Robots equipped with Mimic enable flexible automation of surface treatment in application areas of grinding, sanding, deburring, painting and pouring. There Mimic provides scalable flexibility as it does not require a robotics expert on-site to tweak and rearrange a production schedule. Workers can reconfigure their own production in a matter of hours, and without external involvement.

The Signal LED URCap brings intelligent status visualization to Universal Robots without requiring any manual URScript programming. Control your existing signal towers, warning lights, and buzzers directly through an intuitive PolyScopeX interface that automatically responds to robot state changes.

Are your employees fed up manually loading and unloading your laser marking machine? With the Colchester Laser Marking interface, the robot gains the ability to load and start laser marking programs, then wait for the laser marking program to complete, in order to tend the finished part. The Colchester Laser Marking Interface also brings easy-to-use programming to allow a UR to control the Colchester Minilaser XL laser marker. The single programming node and single installation node allow for seamless collaboration between the UR and laser marker.

The ProLight is a visual indication, to reduce user hazards. A robot designed for collaborative operation shall provide a visual indication according to robotic safety requirements R15.06 and ISO 10218. The ProLight indicates with blue light that the robot is in operation, with red light a human interaction necessary and white light that the Cobot is off/no operation. This visualization ProLight ring is retrofittable for all types of UR robots: UR3/UR3e, UR5/UR5e, UR10/UR10e, UR16e. Additionally the ProLight has round edges to protect user of sharp-edged UR tool interface. Generally the ProLight reduces hazard for users.