Techman Robot releases "lightest high-payload AI cobot"

Techman Robot has released the TM20 robotic arm, which it claims is the industry's lightest high-payload AI collaborative robot. The company says the TM20's high payload capacity makes it the ideal solution for heavy-duty autonomous mobile robot (AMR) applications.

The TM20 weighs 32.8 kg but can carry up to 20 kg and has a reach of 1300 mm with six rotation joints.

A more lightweight robot improves production speed and efficiency by reducing energy consumption and reducing recharging time in mobile scenarios. The added manoeuvrability of a lightweight robot is also an advantage for tasks that require frequent turning or have limited space.

The TM20's built-in smart vision compensates for positioning errors and provides precision in fast pick-and-place tasks without the need for additional visual or positional monitoring. This reduces integration time and costs. Techman's TM Landmark capability also allows real-time updating of the relative position of the arm and key points in the environment, keeping the robot safely oriented in 3D space, regardless of the position of the robot.

The company says this "robot's versatility makes it ideal for a huge range of challenging tasks involving high-volume packaging and palletising, massive pick-and-place jobs, material handling and heavy machine tending". Specific applications include: semiconductor backend processes that require a large amount of manual loading and unloading and lifting of wafer boxes weighing more than 10 kg, and the retrieval and transfer of medical equipment and drugs.