Composite robots are AGV or robotic arm enterprises, which are innovative "mobile chassis+robotic arm" solutions that meet customer needs; Mobile collaborative robots are designed to achieve true hand foot integration. Both are designed to meet the needs of manual replacement, but their starting points are different, and their technology progressiveness is also different.

To explore this point, we first start with their birth, definition, function, and reasons for birth.

The birth of composite robots: The world's first composite robot is no longer verifiable, and China's first composite robot was launched by Xinsong Robotics in 2015.

Function: Both mobile collaborative robots and composite robots adopt a combination of "mobile robots and collaborative robots" to meet the needs of multi workstation operations in multiple scenarios, achieving manual substitution for visual inspection, product grasping, assembly, sorting, loading and unloading, product, fixture and tool transfer, biochemical experiments, visual inspection, human-machine collaboration, and multi machine multi process collaboration.

But its birth philosophy is also different:

The birth of composite robots cannot be separated from the development of the AGV industry. Around 2015, the domestic AGV industry developed, and the number of companies in the industry suddenly increased from 10 to over 50. Many AGV companies have found that AGVs have replaced the function of human feet (handling) during the project process. There are many workstations on intelligent flexible production lines that require both hands and feet, such as CNC machining centers, collection of processed parts and finished products, loading of raw materials, and so on. So, the AGV+robotic arm composite robot was born, hoping for the effect of 1+1>2.

Their shortcomings are obvious: although they can achieve functions such as movement, grasping, recognition, and detection., Due to the fact that the chassis is different from the controllers of robotic arms or other subunits, its internal communication protocol is also completely different, making the secondary development of integrators more complex. The machine's "head" is not a halo, and the control frequency is around 50Hz. The customer's hardware and time costs are relatively high.

The birth history of mobile collaborative machines is different:

The birth of mobile collaborative robots itself was to simulate human "hands and feet". Adopting an integrated operating system for higher accuracy, with a control frequency of 2KHz and faster response.

Generally speaking, composite robots are AGV or robotic arm enterprises that are born by combining "mobile robots and robotic arms" to meet the production needs of production lines. Mobile collaborative machines are an alternative to manual hands and feet.

The above content briefly introduces the differences between mobile collaborative robots and composite robots. If readers have any questions or want to further understand this aspect, they can contact our company for detailed consultation.