Epson's RS3 Robot is now shipping
25 Jun 2009EPSON Robots, a global leader in SCARA robot technology, today announced that the new EPSON RS3 Robot, featuring all the benefits of a typical SCARA plus more is now shipping. The new industry leading work space design of the EPSON RS3 clearly puts it ahead of other robots in its class with superior cycle times and larger work envelope access thus opening up new application possibilities.
“We have shown the new class of SCARA robot (RS3) to many existing and potential customers over the past few months and the response has been phenomenal” stated Michael Ferrara, Director of EPSON Robots. “We're finding that this unique new design is providing both new opportunities for applications like in the lab automation and medical/pharmaceutical markets as well as greatly improved solutions for established industries such as automotive and consumer products. Even in this down economy, some of our first shipments of the RS3 have been to the Automotive industry.”
The EPSON RS3 is literally a zero footprint robot, thus saving our customers valuable floor space. No other robot vendor offers a 350mm SCARA arm featuring a greatest working quadrangle greater than that of a typical 750mm SCARA arm. It is also capable of easy integration into compact assembly cells. Furthermore, the unique work envelope allows for unprecedented design flexibility with 450 degrees of axis rotation for omni directional access. All these exclusive features make the EPSON RS3 robot the most versatile and unique SCARA available in the market today.
Since the RS3 began shipping, users have discovered that extremely flexible motion profiles can be defined. Users have also enjoyed the RS3's ability to change the arms' attitude during linear interpolation. Uninterrupted straight line motions of the RS3 can be as much as two times greater than that of a comparable size SCARA robot. Furthermore, limitations on straight line motions are vastly reduced over "old" SCARA designs, resulting in significantly improved cycle rates.
The EPSON RS3 is perfect for lab automation and other process heavy applications where large quantities of parts are presented to process or testing stations.
Our low cost, high performance Micro PowerDrive RC180 Controller comes standard with the EPSON RS3 robot which provides the ultimate experience in ease of use, compact size, and reliability. In addition to all of these great features, the RC180 controller also provides our industry leading EPSON RC+ Controls software and lots of fully integrated options such as: Vision Guidance, .Net support, Profibus, DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP and much more.
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