Safety-rated monitored stop: The ro

Safety-rated monitored stop: The robot is able through its safety system to perform a protective stop that is safety-rated and monitored. This enables human workers to hand parts directly to the end effector – the device at the end of a robotic arm, essentially the hand of the robot.


As safety technologies become more advanced, humans are able to work ever closer to their robot counterparts.
This feature, in various forms, has been used in industrial applications for more than 10 years, and was present in the hundreds of robots installed by ABB Inc. in the mid-2000s at an automotive assembly plant. Whereas those robots were managed by external means, today's robots now use internal monitoring by the robot safety control system.