Adept Technology, Inc., a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and robotics services, recently announced that its “A Accepted” Quattro robot has reportedly broken the 300 cycles per minute barrier.

 

Officials with Adept said that this new performance threshold was set using 25mm x 300mm x 25mm standard pick and place cycle. The robot industry has long benchmarked the speeds using this quantifier.

 

Earlier this month, Adept launched the latest version of the Quattro line of high-speed robots, which includes Quattro s650H robot only right now.

 

According to Adept, its latest Quattro s650H is a parallel robot, or so-called “delta robot, is specifically designed for high-speed manufacturing, packaging, material handling, and assembly applications. Featuring a unique design of four-arm kinematic, the Quattro s650H robot provides higher speeds, acceleration, as well as exceptional performance across the entire work envelope.

 

Moreover, Adept’s Quattro s650H features powerful embedded amplifiers and compact controls, which not only make installation easy, but also saves workspaces. In addition, it offers increased flexibility and accuracy through integrated vision guidance.

 

Furthermore, Quattro s650H is the only parallel link robot that has been USDA Accepted for meat and poultry processing. This robot is specifically designed to provide food packagers the highest possible speeds in raw-food handling, without compromising cleanliness and hygienic standards, Adept’s officials said.

 

"The Quattro robot is the fastest robot in the world and its advantages over conventional robots not only include faster cycles and settling times, but increased payload and more consistent performance throughout the workspace," Rush LaSelle, director of global sales and marketing for Adept Technology, Inc., said in a statement.  "As Adept continues driving technology to higher levels of performance our clients benefit by realizing throughput previously only offered by conventional equipment combined with the flexibility of manual labor. We are pleased to increasingly offer manufacturers and processors means of achieving high levels of productivity and quality while enabling them to address the pressures of reduced product and packaging life cycles."

 

Recently at Pack Expo 2009, Adept also announced a new fixed platform option for its latest Quattro robot, which will provide enhanced flexibility for higher payload products.

 

Adept provides a comprehensive portfolio of high-performance motion controllers, application development software, vision-guidance technology and cost-effective robotics systems and services to high-growth markets such as packaged goods, life sciences, disk drive/electronics and semiconductor/solar, as well as to traditional industrial markets such as machine tool automation and automotive components.