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Spoiler alert: it depends. Another spoiler: you are going to get some valuable information in this short article that will absolutely help you decide which is the right choice.
First, a bit of history. Industrial robots began their deployment around 1960. Yes, that is a long time ago. Their jobs mainly involved moving parts from one place to another, stacking heavy objects like medium-sized forged parts, ones that challenged human frames. They branched off and specialized in the intervening years, and now can box small items, palletize the boxes, weld a car frame, and in fact some are large enough to move an entire car. The bigger the load, the higher the cost.
Only a few years ago, cobots (collaborative robots) burst onto the industrial scene. What is so different cobots? There are three main differences. From appearance’s sake, a cobot looks like a robotic arm, and in fact functions a lot like one. The base (where you would expect a shoulder) is firmly affixed to the floor, a structure...
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