The advent of robotic technique has brought new opportunity to the laser industry. Right now, domestic robotic laser has achieved primary development and its market size continues to grow. It is expected that the industry is going to be very promising.
Laser processing as a non-contact machinery processing has become an indispensable part in industrial manufacturing sector because of high quality, high output, high flexibility and high adaptability. It has been well recognized in the industrial manufacturing sector in the past 10 years. And the great success of laser processing lies in the assistance of robotic technique.
As we all know, robot is quite outstanding in industrial manufacturing sector, for it can not only work 24/7 but also reduce mistakes and error and is able to work normally under extreme conditions. Therefore, people incorporate robotic and laser technique into one machine and that is robotic laser or laser robot. This has brought new energy to the industry.
From the development timeline, laser technique and robot technique were quite similar in the development pace. But these two don’t have “intersection” until the late 1990s. In 1999, German robotic company first invented the robot arm with laser processing system, which indicates the time when laser met robot for the first time.
Comparing with traditional laser processing, robotic laser can be more flexible, for it breaks the limitation of the dimension. Although traditional laser has wide applications. Low powered laser can be used to perform marking, engraving, drilling and micro-cutting. High powered laser is applicable to perform cutting, welding and repair. But all these can only be 2-dimension processing, which is quite limited. And robotic technique turns out to make up the limitation.
Therefore, in the past few years, robotic laser is become quite heated in laser cutting and laser welding. Without the limitation of cutting direction, robotic laser cutting can also be called as 3D laser cutting. As for 3D laser welding, although it hasn’t been widely applied, its potential and applications are gradually known by people.
Right now, domestic laser robotic technique is going through the speed-up period. It is gradually applied in metal processing, cabinet production, elevator manufacturing, shipbuilding and other industrial areas.
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