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Unlike caged industrial arms, a newer class of factory robot is built to work right next to people without a safety fence.
Cobots, short for collaborative robots, are engineered to work safely alongside people without the metal cages that separate humans from traditional industrial arms, using force sensors and speed limits so they stop immediately if they bump into a person rather than continuing at full industrial strength.
A microwave is a kitchen appliance and a turbine converts fluid flow into rotational energy, neither is a robot or has anything to do with sharing workspace safely with humans on a factory floor.
Denmark's Universal Robots was instrumental in bringing cobots to smaller manufacturers who previously couldn't afford the space, fencing, and safety engineering that traditional industrial robots required, effectively democratizing automation for smaller businesses.
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