An industrial robotic arm is a flexible appendage of a factory robot. It can stretch and bend to perform operations within a wider work envelope with ease. In doing this, it provides a dexterity that a factory robot would not have on its own. In essence, the functionality of a factory robot would be very limited without a robotic arm.
A robotic arm, through different types of end effectors, also makes a factory robot able to fulfill more operations. Take, for example, a robot arm being used to load raw material into a processing machine. Using a different end effector, the same robot can be used to handle the finished product. This provides more value out of one robot than you would get without the arm.
Further, top-quality industrial robot arms can improve the safety of factory robot operations. Robot arms with ingress protection, for instance, can be applied safely in wet tasks without damaging a factory robot. A bomb-proof robot arm too can be used in reactionary or high-heat processes without any fear of them getting damaged.
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