“The IRB 365 can pick, reorientate and place 1kg products at 90 picks per minute,”, says ABB Robotics’ global product manager, Roy Fraser. “Our customers saw that the growth in online shopping was driving the demand for shelf-ready packaged goods, so we developed a new delta robot that would rise to the challenge. By handling more products per minute, the robot increases productivity, while saving time and energy to make production more efficient.”
The robot can be used for top-loading, unscrambling, 3D picking, feeding and parcel sorting applications. It can be integrated into packaging lines in a matter of hours rather than days, using the digital twin technology built into ABB’s PickMaster Twin software, which is also said to cut changeover times from hours to minutes.
The robot is driven by ABB’s OmniCore C30 controller – said to be the smallest delta robot controller on the market. It offers more than 1,000 functions to meet future demands.
The IRB 365 can be paired with other ABB robots to pick, handle and pack payloads weighing from a few grammes up to 15kg.
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