Fast and cost-effective robotic automation

Comau has introduced a new high-speed, 6-axis articulated robot featuring a payload of 3kg and a reach of just 630 mm. The third robot within the award-winning Racer family, Racer3 is Comau’s response to the growing market demand for fast, cost-effective robotic automation within small to medium-sized enterprises and emerging countries. With a streamlined design and brushed metal exterior, the new powerhouse of a robot unites beauty and speed with absolute precision and repeatability.

Built from high-strength aluminium, the newest paradigm in Comau robotics weighs just 30kg and can be easily mounted on benches, walls, ceilings or on inclined supports. It’s also destined to be the fastest in its class according to preliminary prototype tests. Even its elegant colour scheme sets it apart from the trustworthy red Comau giants that have faultlessly served high-end industrial manufacturing for close to 40 years.

Leveraging Comau’s longstanding experience in the automotive industry, where accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable, the new Racer3 combines field-proven technology and enhanced dexterity with a keen focus on safety, design and product aesthetics. With a compact design, aluminium construction, exceptional stability and a user-friendly control interface, Racer3 is a highly efficient manipulation and assembly solution that can adapt to any environment. This means that SMEs in virtually any industry can easily automate, with extreme accuracy, precision and intelligence, even the most delicate manufacturing processes.

The balanced volume and sleek lines of the new Racer3 robot combine speed, strength and stiffness within a highly compact and lightweight package. Created for general industry sectors, including food and beverage, electronics, plastics, metalworking and more, Racer3 has a wide and very flexible work area. Its rigid construction ensures higher precision and repeatability, whereas the hollow body construction optimises the fluid transition of cables. Racer3 can also be easily transported and installed almost anywhere, guaranteeing maximum deployability. Primary applications include assembly, material handling, machine tending, dispensing and pick and place.

Racer3 unites aesthetic innovation with a high performance design built for results. The first of a new generation of general industry robots, Racer3 represents a concrete example of the intensive R&D that has helped Comau Robotics become a leader in the industry. This ongoing commitment to innovation continues to push Comau forward, both in terms of new technology developments and new market sectors.

 Why Racer3?

Industrial robots, with payloads exceeding 30 to 100 kg, are often too large and too expensive for general industry applications. These robots tend to have a reach of around 2 meters, significant payload potential and sophisticated controllers.Compact robots are easier to install and easier to use, but may lack the stability and precision of their larger counterparts, or are too heavy to sit on a counter-top or be moved with ease. Leveraging its longstanding experience in the automotive industry, where accuracy and reliability are non-negotiable, Comau has designed a lightweight, compact and economical robot that features the same award-winning speed, precision and repeatability of its renowned industrial robots.The new Racer3 is designed to allow SMEs all over the world to cost-effectively automate their operations, which in turn can help reduce overall operating expenses. This is particularly important in emerging countries that rely on low cost manufacturing as a source of economic growth and development.

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