Universal Robots, a Denmark-based developer of collaborative robots, will set up a subsidiary in Taiwan in June 206 to tap the local market. The subsidiary will start operations in the third quarter, according to the company's Asia Pacific president.
Promotion of collaborative robots began in 2012, and Taiwan has become the third-largest market for Universal Robots in the Asia Pacific region. Main customers in the Taiwan market are electronics makers currently, for example, Wistron has 60 collaborative robots for use in its automated notebook production lines and plans to add 60 more.
Universal Robots' UR3, its latest 6-axis collaborative robot with a weight of 11kg and payload of 3kg, sell at about EUR16,000 (US$17,950).
Universal Robots-developed UR3 6-axis collaborative robot
Photo: Heemie Weng, Digitimes, May 2016
Article translated by Adam Hwang
