Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
The End
- SCARA robots take away jobs from factory workers
- They offer jobs creating the robots and programming them
The SCARA robot could be improved by:
- Adding more joints
- Have it do multiple tasks
- SCARA stands for Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm
- This robot is used for assembly and precision work
- SCARA robots are used in factories, assembling items faster and more precisely than people
- SCARA robots are used in factories, they can be used to assemble many things. Some examples are:
- Assembling automobiles
- Making hard drives
- Assembling medical equipment
- packaging cookies
- There is more than one model of SCARA, and the amount of joints vary by model.
- Most models have around 2 or 3 joints
- SCARA robots are often called "pick and place robots"
- You pre-program the robot by using a computer program
Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages:
- Produces more of the item
- Is much more precise
- Produces the item faster
- Takes up less space
Disadvantages:
- Can be costly
- Takes away jobs from factory workers
Impact SCARA has:
- Most factories are now using robots on the production lines.
- Robots are taking away jobs from people on the production lines, how ever, they open job opportunities programming the robots