Henrik Elm Gullov, CEOUnlike traditional industrial robots, cobots are designed to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace without sacrificing performance or safety. Typically, cobots can lift between 10-15 kg, but this often proves to be inadequate for numerous tasks. Denmark based Cobot Lift solves this issue through its solutions that combine vacuum tube lift technology (from the 1970s) with cobot technology (from the 2000s). Cobot Lift’s technology can significantly increase the lifting capacity of a collaborative robot to 45 kg while only taking up one-fifth of the space required by an industrial robot.
Cobot Lift is focused on enhancing collaboration between humans and robots and helping companies take full advantage of the benefits from such collaboration
Cobot Lift brings affordable automation solutions to manufacturers of all sizes with pick and place or palletizing solutions. The company’s product, Stationary Cobot Lift, resembles an exoskeleton designed for cobots mounted on the floor. It boosts cobot’s payload from 10 to 45 kg, and an operator can work alongside it without the need for a fence.
Besides, the arm tool of the Stationary Cobot Lift can be fitted with a mechanic, electric, or magnetic lifter instead of vacuum-based. Another product is the Mobile Cobot Lift, which integrates robot, controller, teach pendant, vacuum tube, pump, and crane in a single unit for maximum flexibility and mobility. It has similar features to the Stationary Cobot Lift with the added benefit of mobility while occupying 80 percent lower footprint compared to a traditional industrial robot. Cobot Lift also offers CL+, a platform that provides certainty that products work together and enables clients to quickly understand the possible use cases. For instance, Cobot Lift recently certified Smart Shift, a product that allows a change of tools within seconds as a CL+ product.
Illustrating how Cobot Lift helps increase capacity and productivity, Gullov mentions the case of a client in Denmark. The client required a palletizing robot to enhance their supply chain operations while also ensuring the safety of their workers. Cobot Lift’s solution proved to be a perfect fit for the client’s needs as it allowed workers to move pallets efficiently and since it does not require a fence helped save space. The client also benefitted from affordable pricing, and their workers were able to quickly learn how to operate Cobot Lift’s solutions due to their ease-of-use. Today, Cobot Lift’s distributor network covers 25 countries, and the company has distributors in the Norway, Poland, Denmark, Belarus and Chile. Moving forward, Cobot Lift is focused on developing more automated handling products for heavy payloads that are difficult to manoeuvre. The company’s collaborative lifting solutions featuring true plug and play functionality continue to push the boundary of what’s possible in the robotics landscape.
Illustrating how Cobot Lift helps increase capacity and productivity, Gullov mentions the case of a client in Denmark. The client required a palletizing robot to enhance their supply chain operations while also ensuring the safety of their workers. Cobot Lift’s solution proved to be a perfect fit for the client’s needs as it allowed workers to move pallets efficiently and since it does not require a fence helped save space. The client also benefitted from affordable pricing, and their workers were able to quickly learn how to operate Cobot Lift’s solutions due to their ease-of-use. Today, Cobot Lift’s distributor network covers 25 countries, and the company has distributors in the Norway, Poland, Denmark, Belarus and Chile. Moving forward, Cobot Lift is focused on developing more automated handling products for heavy payloads that are difficult to manoeuvre. The company’s collaborative lifting solutions featuring true plug and play functionality continue to push the boundary of what’s possible in the robotics landscape.
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Investment In Unique Robotics Technology To Improve The Working Environment In Industrial Plants And Airports.
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The investment from Impagt Invest Sjælland – backed by Sparekassen Sjælland-Fyn and the energy and fiber network group Andel – will help Cobot Lift to take further market share and realize the company’s considerable growth potential. Cobot Lift is already in a positive scenario and about to move to larger premises in Slagelse in order to streamline and expand the production of the company’s unique robotic solutions.
“Cobot Lift” has developed a unique solution where they take the best of several technologies and offer a new robotic system that can both improve efficiency and, not least, make work with heavy lifts safer for the employees who have to work with or near the robots. The robots take care of the heavy lifting work and reduce the risk of work injuries, among other things. This improves the working environment, and we want to support this, just as we believe that Cobot Lift has great growth potential,” says Lars Petersson, CEO of Sparekassen Sjælland-Fyn.
Andel also sees Cobot Lift as an obvious investment and adds:
“Cobot Lift has found an effective way to improve working conditions for a vulnerable group of employees, and then the company has spotted a unique niche in the market, as the technology can fill the gap between manual lifts and actual industrial robots. So this is an attractive investment for Andel, which is continuously working to create growth and prosperity in Eastern Denmark” says Nicolai Zarganis, Chief Strategy Officer at Andel.
The benefits are many and the potential is great
The benefits of Cobot Lift’s unique robotic technology are many. Among other applications, the robotic handling systems can lift up to 50 kg and thus handle the vast majority of lifts that are currently done manually, including lifting sacks and soft items. At the same time, the solution typically takes up only a fifth of the space compared to traditional industrial robots and is up to 40% cheaper to purchase. Cobot Lift’s robotic solutions also do not require any special protection measures or enclosures, which also makes it easier for employees who work close to or with the robot.
In sum, the solutions are aimed at a wide range of companies, including in particular industrial companies where, loading and unloading of heavy units are part of the production, but also airports where thousands of Baggage and other cargo are handled every day. The potential is therefore also great and must be exploited:
“We at Cobot Lift are extremely pleased to receive capital from Impagt Invest Sjælland. We have successfully established a global distributor network and sales among all continents, and are now ready to further strengthen our market position. With the injected capital we can increase our production capacity, hire more salespeople and complete our product development within baggage handling. We therefore also see it as a huge advantage to have strong and experienced investors as we continue our growth journey and unlock Cobot Lift’s enormous potential,”says Henrik Elm Gulløv, CEO of Cobot Lift.