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    A Robot of Your Very Own

    Increasingly, robots are small, portable, easy to train, and within financial reach for many businesses. Should you add one to your team?
    by DAVID WHITFORD Aug 01, 2017 4 minutes
    NO SICK DAYS, NO VACATIONS, NO BOREDOM Acorn’s cobot, named Sawyer, cuts blocks of wood—to which rubber stamps are affixed—and drills a hole into them for the handle, freeing up human employees for more creative tasks.

    CREATING REVOLUTIONS, which is based in Miami, makes a spill-proof tabletop pager for the hospitality industry, but the product was plagued by a double-digit failure rate due to human assembly errors, says chief innovation officer Einar Rosenberg. So he brought in a Universal Robots model UR3 collaborative robot (cobot for short) that’s designed to work alongside humans, not replace them. He used it for three crucial, very precise tasks, such as applying a spot of sealant inside the device’s aluminum housing. The failure rate dropped to less than 1 percent. The cobot “saved us from going under,” Rosenberg says.

    Cobots are the fastest-growing segment in the automation universe. Two players dominate:

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