摘要:
In an interview, Jeff Fryman, director of standards development at Robotic Industries Association (RIA), talked about safety in robotics industry. He is responsible for the development of national and international robot safety standards at RIA, among other robot-related standards. He is also responsible for planning and hosting their annual National Robot Safety Conference, as well regional seminars and in-house training programs. An industrial robot is an automatically controlled, reprogrammable multipurpose manipulator, programmable in three or more axes. It can be fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications. The phrases multipurpose Industrial robots present a singular occupational hazard: the effects of being struck or crushed by the motion of the robot. A new 2012 edition of the national robot safety standard (R15.06) will be published soon. This document is a national adoption of the international standards ISO 10218-1 and ISO 10218-2, which were published in July 2011.