Kassow Robots visits Scott Equipment Company

Video Transcript:

Phil

Hey everybody. We had Kassow Robots in the house here at Scott equipment today and Dieter pleasure was here all the way from Copenhagen. We had an interesting conversation about Kassow Robots and the future of the collaborative robot industry. So, let us get to it.

Phil

Hello, I am Philip Lister, Engineering Manager here at Scott equipment in Charlotte, North Carolina. And today, we had Dieter Pletscher with Kassow Robots with us. And we are going to talk about Kassow Robots and what the future holds for the entire robot industry.

Dieter

Yes, thank you for being here, Philip. And yes, looking forward to our short talk.

Phil

Yes, we will try to keep it short. So, my first question is, where is Kassow Robots even located?

Dieter

Yeah, Kassow Robots is a Danish company, founded in 2014. We are in Copenhagen, where we have our primary office and our production facilities. And we also have a company in Prague where do where we are doing all our development for software.

Phil

Very cool. So, who founded the company?

Dieter

The company was founded by Christian Kassow. I think Christian Kassow’s history is quite exciting. He was one of the founders of Universal Robots. He developed the first UR5 robot, together with some other engineers, of course. But he was there until 2010, where he left the company. And in 2014, he decided to do it once again. Of course, also taking the experience from the first try with him. And the idea was to develop a more industrial cobot, with higher reach, higher speed, higher payload, but also with seven axis that gives much more flexibility when you are doing applications.

Phill

So, then you determined for me that Kassow Robots has a greater payload capacity, a longer reach, is faster and has a unique seventh access compared to the competition. So why do you think the seventh axis is so important?

Dieter

The seventh axis gives you more flexibility, when looking for solutions for applications. The seventh axis, for example, gives you the possibility to grip around the corner. It also gives you a much better possibility, for example, to follow a path because you are much more flexible in the in the arm.

Phil

Like glue dispensing, for example

Dieter

Like glue dispensing, for example, glue, gluing, yes, or welding everywhere where you have complex moves where it is important to, to have a constant speed. Because if you look at the robot arm, it is a, you try to copy the human arm, and the six-axis robot has only one joint in the elbow. So, you only can do that movement. With the seven-axis robot, we have two joints in the elbow. So, we also can do that movement. And by that it is much easier to copy a human arms movement. And that gives it a big advantage in many applications. That make sense. Yes. But of course, it is also for applications you can do with the six axes. But it is easier to realize with a seven axis

Phil

So, you can do it better, even faster with less complication. Sounds like whatever a six-axis articulated arm robot can do, a seven-axis robot can do even better.

Dieter

Yes, indeed, not. Not all the time, but many times. But the important thing is that it makes it normally easier to find a nice solution because you can save many times space. And space is money today.

Phil

So, my final question will be then, since the introduction of collaborative robots to our market back in the 2000s, we have seen a lot of technological advances. So, what do you think the future looks like for the collaborative robot market?

Dieter

First, there is a bright future for in general for the collaborative robot market. The reasons are different. One reason is that with a real collaborative robot that is easy to program, you open also for smaller companies that do not have automation or robotic competence in house. But they can learn it, for example, trained by Scott equipment, they can learn how to make their own solutions. So that they get, as we say, they get the automation with robots back in their own hands. And that saves for them money, of course, but it also makes them much more competitive in the market. Because, of course, today, I think, if you want to pay competitive, you need to automate simple processes in your production.

Phil

I can honestly say, Dieter, in my experience in using and applying the Kassow Robot, it is amazingly simple to program. And we have written pick and place programs for customers or prospective customers in really in minutes and not hours, which has really blown their mind. So, the sophistication of the software interface is really one thing that just recently has evolved very rapidly and because of robots is phenomenal job with that. Yes. Thank you very much.

Dieter

Yes. And one of the reasons why it is so simple is of course, also because we can you are we use a standard tablet, yes. For programming that has this drag and drop, everybody knows that. Everybody has played and uses a tablet, in private use. And we have all the advantages a tablet has, we have, for example, Wi Fi connection, that makes it extremely easy to make updates to the robot or send programs and messages out for support, if that is necessary, if you need the help. And we have, of course, all the other nice functions, like copy. And all these functions you have on a standard tablet. You can also use the table when you are writing the program. So, and that also makes it much easier, I think for end users to work with that.

Phil

Absolutely. I have seen that as well. Well later. Thanks again for your time. It has been a pleasure. If you have any questions about Kassow Robots and how we it has a clip that can help you, please reach out to us here.