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Robotics

YuMi® creating an automated future together
You and Me

YuMi heralds a new era of
robotic co-workers which are
able to work side-by-side on
the same tasks as humans
while still ensuring the safety
of those around it.

Collaboration
YuMi is the first truly collaborative dual armed robot, designed
for a world in which humans and robots work together. t
Intentionally designed to resemble its human counterparts
to be friendly and non-threatening with a compact, dual-arm
body which requires no more space than a human workstation.
YuMi harnesses the enormous potential of human-robot
collaboration in small parts assembly. YuMi offers manufacturers a transformational new solution, the first dual arm
robot purpose-built for the small parts space: inherently safe,
extremely accurate.
Each magnesium arm flexes on seven axes to mimic humanlike movements with spatial efficiency. The robot was specifically designed to meet the flexible and agile production needs
required by the consumer electronics industry.
Thanks to its dual-arms, flexible hands, universal parts feeding system, camera-based part location and state-of-the-art
motion control, YuMi has equal application in any small parts
assembly environment.

Redefining safety
YuMi represents a dramatic shift in how industrial robots operate.
At its core, YuMi has the DNA of safety. Much like a human arm
has a skeleton covered with muscles that provide padding, YuMi
has a lightweight yet rigid magnesium skeleton covered with a
floating plastic casing wrapped in soft padding. This arrangement absorbs the force of any unexpected impacts to a very
high degree. Like the human arm, YuMi has no pinch points so
that sensitive ancillary parts cannot be crushed between two
opposing surfaces as the axes open and close.
If YuMi senses an unexpected impact, such as a collision with
a coworker, it can pause its motion within milliseconds, and
the motion can be restarted again as easily as pressing play
on a remote control. Additionally, the robot can rapidly diagnose changes in its environment and, if necessary, register the
overload, shutting down YuMi‘s motion within milliseconds to
prevent injury. When this is combined with the floating padding,
safety for a human coworker is drastically increased. Even with
these inherent safety features, YuMi is incredibly precise and
fast, returning to the same point in space over and over again to
within 0.02 mm accuracy and moving at a maximum velocity of
1,500 mm/sec.