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Until now, industrial robots have always been fast and robust devices that work on specific tasks designed for them. To stay in accordance with the aforementioned rule they were performing behind fixed and interlocked guards and sensitive protective equipment to prevent human intrusion into their workspace. With the introduction of collaborative robots the cages are omitted as those robots are designed to work with humans. They are built with different safety features to prevent collisions, but if a collision occurs, the mechanism will move in the opposite direction or stop completely to avoid causing injury.
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Mihelj, M. et al. (2019). Collaborative Robots. In: Robotics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72911-4_12
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