Whether you’re looking to streamline your production line, tackle labor shortages, or make your workplace safer, robots are a powerful solution—and ally. The Automate Team is here to help with a list of common robot types, from traditional industrial robots to innovative collaborative and mobile robots. Examples on display at Automate 2025 include: Cylindrical Robots These robots combine rotational movement with vertical and horizontal motion, operating within a cylindrical workspace. Their versatility shines in various applications across the manufacturing floor. They excel in machine tending operations, assembly processes, and material handling tasks. Their design makes them particularly effective for packaging, palletizing, and precision dispensing operations where consistent circular motion is required. Collaborative Robots Cobots represent the next evolution in industrial automation by working directly alongside human workers, unlike traditional robots that are confined to cages. They are ideal for quality inspection, assembly lines, and packaging or material handling. You can choose between 4 major types of cobots: Safety Monitored Stop, Speed and Separation, Hand Guiding, and Power and Force Limiting. These cobots use sophisticated collision sensors and force limitations to detect when they contact a human worker. This helps them to stop and avoid any injuries. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) These intelligent robots navigate independently using sophisticated sensor systems and AI. Their advanced capabilities provide significant operational benefits. With dynamic obstacle avoidance and flexible routing capabilities, they can adapt to changing environments without requiring infrastructure modifications. Their sophisticated systems enable seamless integration with existing operations, making them a versatile solution for modern manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and even healthcare facilities. Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) AGVs are robots that follow predetermined paths, providing dependable and error-free transport of materials within a facility. They offer safe and efficient material transport, reducing human error and improving accuracy in tasks like moving heavy items across warehouses and distribution centers. Drones (UAVs) UAV stands for unmanned aerial vehicle but is more commonly known as a drone. These aerial robots can assist with surveying, inspections, and deliveries. Since they can take to the skies to see hard-to-reach areas and deploy quickly, they are ideal for complex terrains or challenging environments. In fact, they are becoming increasingly popular in industries like construction, logistics, infrastructure, and energy.

Service Robots

Service robots are as diverse as the environments where they assist operations. From industrial applications to specialized fields, they are designed to perform tasks that assist humans in daily or dangerous activities. These include humanoids, customer service, exoskeleton, inspection, agriculture, and medical robots.