Industrial Robots Classification And Composition

1 Classification
According to the arrangement of joints, industrial robots are divided into serial robots and parallel robots. Human arms belong to Serial link structures, while animal-like limbs belong to parallel link mechanisms.
Serial joint linkage robots are divided into vertical joint type and horizontal joint type robot according to the direction of the joint, such as SCARA robot is a horizontal joint type robot. The load of horizontal joint robots is not large, most of the loads are within 20kg, while the load of vertical joint robots can be very large, such as the load of Japanese FANUC M-2000iA/2300 robots can be 2300kg.
There are many classification methods for industrial robots, which can be classified according to the size of the load or according to the use, and the robot selection must be considered comprehensively.
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