Safe around students (after a risk assessment), intuitive and easy-to-program cobots are used in vocational and technical programs to teach valuable and up-to-date automation skills to teens and adults to help address the manufacturing skills gap. Cobots are also used to support sophisticated higher-education projects in a range of study areas.

Small, lightweight cobots are cost-effective to deploy and can fit in small labs and on classroom tables. A Universal Robots robot arm consistently follows exact processes and pre-defined workflows with high repeatability around the clock. Cobots excel in strict laboratory environments and for analyses that need to avoid the possibility of human contamination. In many cases, these are also dull, repetitive, difficult, and potentially dangerous tasks that are unsuitable for lab technicians.

Intuitive, flexible programming allows even non-robotics students to easily take advantage of the benefits of automation without distracting them from their primary subject matter. And with the growth of collaborative automation in industries around the world, students with cobot experience bring valuable skills to employers right out of school.