Teaching Welding Robots by Demonstration vs Teach Pendant Programming [Video]

For the past few weeks we have been introducing you to Kinetiq Teaching – a new add-on solution to Yaskawa-Motoman welding robots to teaching welding robots by demonstration.

We told you that the idea behind Kinetiq Teaching is to:

On the end user side (welders)

1. Leverage the knowledge of welders by eliminating, as much as possible, in-depth programming tasks.
2. Make using industrial welding robots as intuitive as possible.

On the company side

1. Give a compelling return on investment for production lines having small runs or many changeovers throughout the year.
2. Open the door to robotic welding at small and medium manufacturers without needing a robotic expert in-house to set the runs.

Kinetiq Teaching vs Teach Pendant Programming

Here is a video which compares the traditional way of teaching a robot and Kinetiq Teaching. The user in this video is a welder, who learned welding using robot programming with a teach pendant some years ago. To test our solution we have asked him to program some welding trajectories …