Stepping Up Emergency Medical Production with Robotics

In March 2020, France was unprepared for the COVID 19-pandemic, with an inadequate supply of gloves, masks, and vital equipment for people in respiratory distress. Industrial companies in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region began working to urgently build up a state reserve of filters needed for the operation of medical ventilators. Their solution was an automated cell combining Stäubli’s SCARA TS2-60 and 6-axis TX2-90 robots, which was designed and manufactured within a few weeks.