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ABB boosts YuMi collaborative robot portfolio with GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families. Eight out of ten workplaces say they will increase use of robots in the next decade pandemic cited as catalyst for accelerating investment in automation.ABB is expanding its collaborative robot cobot portfolio with the new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families offering higher payloads and speeds to complement YuMi and Single Arm YuMi in ABBs cobot line-up. These stronger faster and more capable cobots will accelerate the companys expansion in high-growth segments including electronics healthcare consumer goods logistics and food and beverage amongst others meeting the growing demand for automation across multiple industries.GoFa and SWIFTI are intuitively designed so customers need not rely on in-house programming specialists. This will unlock industries that have low levels of automation with customers able to operate their cobot within minutes of installation straight out of the box with no specialized training.Our new cobot portfolio is the most diverse on the market offering the potential to transform workplaces and help our customers achieve new levels of operational performance and growth said Sami Atiya President of ABBs Robotics Discrete Automation Business Area. They are easy to use and configure and backed by our global network of on-call on-line service experts to ensure that businesses of all sizes and new sectors of the economy far beyond manufacturing can embrace robots for the first time.ABBs cobot portfolio expansion is engineered to help existing and new robot users accelerate automation amid four key megatrends including individualized consumers labor shortages digitalization and uncertainty that are transforming business and driving automation into new sectors of the economy. The expansion follows the Business Areas focus on high-growth segments through portfolio innovation helping to drive profitable growth.Automation driving the future of manufacturingIn a global survey1 of 1650 large and small businesses in Europe the US and China 84 percent of businesses said they will introduce or increase the use of robotics and automation in the next decade while 85 per cent said the pandemic had been game changing for their business and industry with COVID-19 a catalyst for accelerating investment in automation. Nearly half of businesses 43 percent said they were looking to robotics to help them improve workplace health and safety 51 percent said robotics could enhance social distancing and more than one-third 36 percent were considering using robotic automation to improve the quality of work for their employees. More immediately 78 percent of company CEOs and Managing Directors said recruiting and retaining staff for repetitive and ergonomically challenging jobs is a challenge.Cobots are designed to operate in the presence of workers without the need for physical safety measures such as fences and to be very easy to use and install. In 2019 more than 22000 new collaborative robots were deployed globally up 19 percent compared to the previous year2. The demand for collaborative robots is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 17 percent between 2020 and 20253 while the value of global cobot sales is expected to increase from an estimated 0.7 billion in 2019 to 1.4 bn by 20254. The global market for all industrial robots is projected to grow from 45 billion in 2020 to 58 billion by 2023 CAGR of 9 percent5.GoFa and SWIFTI are engineered to help businesses automate processes to assist workers with tasks including material handling machine tending component assembly and packaging in manufacturing medical laboratories logistics hubs and warehouses workshops and small production facilities.With this expansion we are making cobots easier to use and deploy with real-time support to help speed their adoption in businesses that may have not considered their use previously Atiya said. Our experience is that the best performing operations harness peoples skills alongside the potential of new technologies.Users comfortable with operating a tablet or smartphone will be able to program and re-program the new cobots with ease using ABBs fast set-up tools. Customers will also benefit from ABBs global industry and application expertise which has been developed from installing more than 500000 robot solutions since 1974 and supported by ABBs network of over 1000 global partners.The new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families build on the success of ABBs YuMi family which has been helping businesses safely automate key tasks since YuMi the worlds first truly collaborative robot was launched in 2015. Today ABBs YuMi cobots are working alongside people in factories workshops and laboratories all over the world performing tasks from screwdriving and assembling electronics and electrical components to making valves and USB sticks and testing COVID-19 samples in laboratories.Every ABB cobot installation includes a start-up package that provides ABB Ability condition monitoring diagnostics as well as a support hotline free for the first six months to access ABBs expert technical assistance which is offering support across all industry segments.
