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28 August 2018
Serving orange juice, loading
the dishwasher or sorting
purchases. The new low-cost
igus robotics concept from
Treotham is intended to
make these tasks possible.
Under the name ReBeL, igus
presented a new kind of joint, driven
by a strain wave gear, at Hannover
Messe 2018 as a single component
for the first time and also showed a
study of a 6-axis service robot. The
new joint is fundamentally different to
the previous robolink models: instead
of stepper motors, brushless directcurrent
motors are used in the joints
for the first time.
Thanks to maintenance-free injectionmoulded
parts, the new ReBeL series
is set to become a real bargain for
robot manufacturers.
A practice household assistant for
the home or in the office. Easy to
program at a reasonable price. Who
does not want this? The topic of
collaborative robotics – interaction
between people and machines – has
now been taken up by igus with
its low-cost robotics in the form of
robolink. The requirements for the
components were that they must be
• Rapid Return on
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• Dedicated demo cell for
you to trial your products
• Complete Cells, Laser
Tracking, Offline
Programming
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light and cost-effective. The result is
the ReBeL joint.
"Alexa, bring me a glass of orange
juice," could thus become reality
when the product is used in
combination with a voice control
system. The new low-cost robotics
concept is fundamentally different to
that of the previous robolink joints
and makes it possible for robot
manufacturers to generate new
solutions. Instead of stepper motors,
brushless direct-current motors
(BLDC motors), are used.
Due to their small size, the BLDC
motors can now be installed in the
maintenance-free strain wave gear of
a ReBeL joint. The control equipment
is also built into the axes and thus
renders an external control cabinet
superfluous. "The cables can now be
routed directly inside a robot arm as
a BUS system", says Martin Raak,
robolink product manager at igus
GmbH.
"A further idea is to equip new
joints with absolute encoders, that
remember the position of an arm
even when a power failure occurs,”
adds Raak.
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