A Research on the Developing and Increasing Roles of Collaborative Robots in the Covid-19 Pandemic Process

Abstract

Collaborative robots, in other words cobots, are good examples of the extent to which the developments in the robotics sector have come from the beginning of the 21st century. Cobots, which came into our lives with the understanding of the importance of automation technologies in the production sector, aimed to minimize the errors encountered due to production while increasing the production capacity and speed in industrial productions. Cobots, which have been used in different fields since the first day of its emergence, have been used in the fight against the pandemic, when the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which started to be seen in the world at the end of 2019, caused a pandemic. The development process of collaborative robots, namely cobots, to protect human life and reduce the effects of the pandemic with the onset of the pandemic, has been examined by making use of past research. In this study, the success and widespread impact values of Cobots during the COVID-19 epidemic and pandemic were investigated and revealed.

Keywords

• Cobot
• Covid-19
• collaborative robot
• coronavirus
• pandemic

Kolaboratif Robotların Covid-19 Pandemi Sürecinde Gelişen ve Artan Rolleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Abstract

Kolaboratif robotlar diğer bir değişle cobotlar, 21. yüzyılın başlangıcından itibaren, robotik sektöründeki gelişmelerin geldiği boyutlara iyi birer örnek teşkil etmektedir. Özellikle otomasyon teknolojilerinin üretim sektöründeki öneminin anlaşılması ile hayatımıza giren cobotlar, endüstriyel üretimlerde üretim kapasitesi ve hızını artırırken, üretimden dolayı karşılaşılan hataları en aza indirgemeyi hedeflemiştir. Ortaya çıktığı ilk günden günümüze kadar farklı alanlarda kullanılmakta olan cobotların SARS-CoV-2 virüsünün sebep olduğu, 2019 yılının sonlarında dünyada görülmeye başlanan koronavirüs (COVID-19) hastalığının pandemiye yol açmasıyla, pandemi ile mücadelede kullanımına başlanmıştır. Kolaboratif robotların yani cobotların, pandeminin başlaması ile insan hayatını korumak ve pandeminin etkilerinin azaltılması yolunda girdiği gelişme süreci, geçmiş araştırmalardan faydalanılarak incelenmiştir. Bu çalışmada, COVID-19 salgını ve pandemi sürecinde, Cobotların gösterdiği başarı ve yaygın etki değerleri araştırılarak ortaya koyulmuştur.

Keywords

• Cobot
• Covid-19
• kolaboratif robot
• koronavirüs
• pandemi

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