COBOTTA

COBOTTA is a family of 6-DOF collaborative robot arms from DENSO Robotics, encompassing the original compact COBOTTA (~4 kg, small-scale) and the more capable COBOTTA PRO/HSR Series (900 mm and 1300 mm reach variants, 6–12 kg payload, up to 2,500 mm/s TCP speed). The PRO series features dual-mode operation—full speed when no humans are nearby, automatically slowing or stopping on human approach—with PL d / Cat. 3 functional safety certification and a CRC9 controller powered by Beckhoff TwinCAT. The robots are commercially available (price on request, estimated USD 25,000–40,000), support ROS/MoveIt, offline programming via WINCAPS/Wincaps3, AI imitative learning, and Blockly drag-and-drop programming, and have been deployed in pharmaceutical cleanrooms, laboratory automation, machine tending, and bin picking. As industrial cobots, they autonomously execute programmed tasks without a human performing or driving the task itself, though they require initial setup, programming, and periodic maintenance.