Ultra Fast Pick & Place Robot - FANUC's New Three-Axis Delta Robot Packs Small Batteries

Published on Feb 7, 2014

Battery pick & place

New to the FANUC family of M-1iA delta-style robots, the FANUC M-1iA/1H is a three-axis parallel-link robot that offers a 1kg payload and is designed for super high-speed pick and place applications.

This demonstration showcases first hand how quickly this robot is able to pick and package small products. The robot meticulously picks small batteries flowing down a conveyor and places them into their packaging tray at a rigorous pace.

Other robots in FANUC's family of M-1iA delta class include a six-axis model with a three-axis wrist, and a four-axis model with a single-axis wrist. The M-1iA/1H robot seen here has a non-rotating wrist, and is ideal for packagers that require fast and accurate part picking without the need to rotate the parts. Its new wrist offers a hollow design for simplification of end-of-arm-tool dress-out.

At 12kg this robot is very lightweight, and as with all of FANUC's delta-style robots it is easy to integrate into production lines. And of course, the M-1iA/1H operates with FANUC's latest integrated intelligent functions such as iRVision, Force Sensing and Robot Link.