The large-scale industrial culture program "China’s Craftsmanship Record", jointly produced by China Central Television and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, premiered in the prime-time slot on CCTV-1. On this stage connecting ancient craftsmanship with modern intelligent manufacturing, ROKAE’s SR series flexible collaborative robots made a stunning appearance, showcasing their skills and vividly demonstrating the new heights of China’s robotics industry to a national audience.
Stop-on-Contact: CCTV Stage Witnesses the Safety of Human-Robot Collaboration
On the program, Wang Hao, Vice President of ROKAE Robotics, appeared as a R&D representative alongside the SR series flexible collaborative robot, interacting with host Sa Beining and guest Zhou Shen. Beyond demonstrating high precision, high speed, and high stability, the robot performed an astounding safety feat live. With just a light touch from a human hand, the robot responded instantly and stopped automatically. Even when faced with a fragile balloon, the robot precisely halted upon contact, leaving the balloon completely unharmed.
These collaborative robots adopt a new-generation joint torque control technology system. Each joint is equipped with a high-precision torque sensor, achieving ultimate safety, ease of use, and compliant force control applicable to industrial precision assembly and even medical surgeries. Regarding safety, the high-precision torque sensor in each joint enables collision detection capable of "stopping on contact," accurately perceiving slight external forces to ensure immediate stoppage upon accidental collision, achieving millisecond-level safety control.
Collision detection based on joint torque sensors: Sensitivity increased 5 times compared to current-loop based torque collision detection.
SIL3-rated independent safety controller: Independent RSC design and dual-channel redundant torque sensors monitor robot data in real-time, preventing safety incidents caused by sensor or controller failure.
Magnetic friction brake: Braking distance reduced by 80% compared to traditional pin-type brakes, no dropping upon power loss.
Certified by TUV: Meets the safety certification requirements for human-robot collaboration specified in ISO 15066.
Based on multiple security designs, ROKAE’s flexible collaborative robots can increase space utilization by 40%-70% in actual production lines without the need for additional safety fences, providing solid guarantees for high-efficiency, high-quality production. Host Sa Beining commented during the program, "It effectively protects the safety of humans working in the same environment, presenting a transformation from 'industrial tough guy' to 'flexible partner,' refining technological advancement into industrial warmth."
Intelligent Manufacturing Transformation: Chinese Robotics Industry "Overtaking on a Curve"
With leading advantages in safety, ease of use, and compliant control performance, ROKAE’s flexible collaborative robots have become a key force driving intelligent manufacturing upgrades. Their application landscape is rapidly expanding, widely used in industrial manufacturing scenarios like automotive, electronics, and new energy, while also extending into emerging fields such as commercial services and medical surgery assistance.
In industrial settings, taking a widely deployed automotive production line application as an example, a leading international automotive component giant, after setting up a test line completely identical to the formal production environment, conducted a comprehensive six-month performance evaluation of ROKAE’s flexible collaborative robots according to the highest international standards. This covered core metrics like precision, speed, and cycle time stability. The final results showed that ROKAE robots not only excelled in basic performance but also surpassed international competitors in intelligence level and compliant safety performance, passing this "international exam" with superior overall performance.
This impressive appearance on the national stage of "China’s Craftsmanship Record" allowed ROKAE’s flexible collaborative robots to vividly demonstrate new heights of intelligent manufacturing to the audience. They can perform precision assembly with the accuracy of an embroidery needle yet stop instantaneously upon sensing human contact, perfectly illustrating dual breakthroughs in both precision and safety for robotics. Behind this lies ROKAE team's R&D philosophy of no compromise on safety, no concession on precision, which also establishes a new paradigm for human-robot collaboration in intelligent manufacturing.
"China’s Craftsmanship Record", renamed after "Kaogong Ji" (Artificers' Record), aimed at showcasing the cutting-edge achievements of China's new industrialization, interpreting the deep context of Chinese industrial civilization from a unique perspective, facilitating a cross-temporal connection between the "craftsmanship wisdom" of 2500 years ago and today's Chinese intelligent manufacturing.
ROKAE Robotics' outstanding performance is a powerful respond in this connection. It signifies that the Chinese robotics industry is writing a new chapter of intelligent manufacturing leveraging innovation and inheritance. In the future, ROKAE Robotics will continue to deepen technological and product innovation, widen industry applications, so as to contribute to the high-quality development of China's robotics industry.
