Universal Robots introduced the online learning platform to ensure that everybody with a desire to learn the concepts of cobots gets the introduction necessary to master basic programming skills.
The company is now expanding the online training, adding three new modules that step up complexity by teaching users how to create and work with coordinate systems, variables and conditional statements, and how to use the robot’s wizard to easily create a program for packaging.
Explains CTO and co-founder of Universal Robots Esben Østergaard: “This is a long-term investment for us. We want to raise the robot literacy and the reason for speeding up the entry of cobots is not only to optimise production here and now.
“We are facing a looming skills gap in the manufacturing industry that we need to bridge by all means possible. Facilitating knowledge creation and access to our robots is an important step in that direction.”
Adds Universal Robots head of Global Competence Centre Stefan Stubgaard: “This learning resource is now also reaching small and medium-sized manufacturers that up until now regarded robotics as costly and complex.
“By simply logging into the academy they experience first-hand how simple the setup can be and they can easily envisage what production tasks could be automated with our cobots.”
