Industrial robot
산업용 로봇
A robot that repeats jobs like welding, assembling and painting in a factory, fast and accurately, exactly as set.
Overview
The most common form is a robot arm with several joints. In a car factory it welds car bodies, moves heavy parts and sprays paint evenly. It follows a path a person set in advance, so it does the same job all day without drifting.
It is strong and fast, so a fence is usually put up to keep people from coming near it. Its weakness is flexibility. If the product being made changes, the motions have to be programmed again, and it cannot handle a part that is not placed where it should be. These days cameras and AI are being added to reduce this weakness.
An everyday example
It is a very strong arm that does not get tired even after repeating the same motion tens of thousands of times. But it cannot do anything beyond what it has been taught.
Why it matters
It is the robot that took hold in factories first. Humanoids and collaborative robots came along to take on the "jobs that keep changing" that this robot could not do.
Also calledmanufacturing robot