Increasing the potential of industrial robotics through safe and fenceless robots

Today, most industrial robots are operating within a cage or behind a fence to avoid human injury and to keep the shop floor safe. However, operating robots this way leads to limitations in their application. The Austrian company Blue Danube Robotics aims to change that with AIRSKIN. AIRSKIN is a soft pressure-sensitive safety skin for industrial robots and tools. It consists of individual pads whose deformation (e.g., when humans are in the way of the robot) causes the rise of internal air pressure issuing a safe stop of the robot. The product turns an industrial robot into a fenceless robot, combining the advantages of an industrial robot with the advantages of fenceless collaborative applications.

AIRSKIN is a certified product (CE mark) fulfilling modern security standards, has won several awards, and works with different manufacturers of robots.