FANUC Robotics has introduced its new LR Mate 200iC/5H robot designed especially for small part assembly applications typically handled by SCARA-type industrial robots.

The five-axis LR Mate 200iC/5H is the latest member of FANUC Robotics' family of lightweight, compact mini-robots, offering 'best in class' wrist load capacity, repeatability, work envelope, and speed.

The intelligent LR Mate 200iC/5H is designed to meet the needs of a variety of industries including electronics, plastics, packaged and consumer goods, machinery, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

The LR Mate 200iC/5H robot offers assembly customers a wide range of benefits, including:
• Eliminates need for unnecessary and costly fixed automation
• Ability to design to batch sizes of one by using robots to transfer material versus accumulating manufacturers of conveyors
• Eliminates errors with integrated vision for in-line process verification
• Optimizes overall system throughput with best-in-class robot speed and performance
• Increases system uptime with unmatched reliability and support
• Supports a variety of intelligent functions including: an internal programmable control (PMC), Ethernet, iRVision (built-in), force sensing, and the iPendant.