ABB GoFa CRB 15000 collaborative robot

ABB is expanding its collaborative robot range with the introduction of the 6-axis GoFa CRB (Collaborative RoBot) 15000, to support the growing demand for a collaborative robot capable of handling heavier payloads to enhance productivity and flexibility.

Designed to safely work directly and continuously alongside humans and to be easy to install and use, GoFa is intended to help businesses automate processes involving heavier loads and longer reaches to assist workers with repetitive and ergonomically challenging tasks.

With a reach of 950 mm, and offering speeds up to 2.2 m/s, GoFa is said to offer an effective solution for a variety of applications, including materials handling, machine tending, component assembly, packaging and inspection, as well as laboratory automation.

GoFa features intelligent torque and position sensors in each of its six joints to offer higher power and force limiting performance. These joints eliminate the risk of injury to human workers by sensing any unexpected contact between the cobot’s arm and a human to bring the robot arm to a stop within milliseconds.

Users can program GoFa via lead-through programming and ABB’s Wizard easy programming software. Based on simple graphical blocks, Wizard is designed to make it easy for non-specialists to automate their applications. The blocks represent actions such as ‘move to location’, ‘pick up an object’ and ‘repeat task’, making it easy and intuitive to build a series of simple processes for the robot to perform.