Fri, 13 December, 2024
Deacon Innovations, based in South Wales, have been designing and assembling robot cells that include a six-axis industrial robot sourced from Canada.
Offering a full robotics integration service, Deacon Innovations are an official UK integrator of Mecademics’ Meca 500 robot. These small scale robots are able to perform tasks previously undertaken by humans but with a greater degree of accuracy and repeatability.
The robotic system is small and lightweight with a low power consumption and high levels of accuracy, making it ideal for miniature assembly tasks. It can perform in challenging environments, is not affected by gravity and can perform in a vacuum, which makes it perfect for space operations.
Suitable for a variety of applications, the Meca 500 desktop-size robot is capable of of 5 μm of repeatability, although testing indicates it is capable of 1 μm increments of motion in the Cartesian motion format.
While the Meca 500 is proprietary, it connects using TCP/IP protocols and a standard ethernet cable, and with the implementation of RoboDK, a software platform for controlling industrial robots, the control system can itself effectively be controlled through RoboDK, allowing for real time user operation of the arm.
This opens up the Meca 500 to external control and custom development, an avenue not currently available with the MicroSupport AxisPro.
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