New cheerful factory robot aims to keep European industry competitive by working alongside humans, smiling when it accomplishes a task or when its bosses ensure it stays busy. The pi4_workerbot, developed at Fraunhofer labs, has fingertip sensitivity  it`s completes the perennially difficult robot task of grasping an egg  and a variety of facial expressions.

It`s have three cameras and two arms and stands as tall as an average human.  It`s seamlessly integrated into assembly lines, according to Fraunhofer’s Research News.

Happy Workerbot  can pick up two pieces gear wheel and a housing  and carefully fiddle with them until the two pieces engage.

The robot smiles, and places the correctly assembled part on the conveyor belt, a Fraunhofer news release explains. The robot’s shoulders swivel, affording it several degrees of freedom, and it also has an rotating wrist, which allows precise hand movements.

It has a 3-D camera to see its surroundings, and two other cameras allow it to inspect factory items with greater precision than a human eye. In an automotive factory, for instance, it could examine a chrome-plated object by studying how light reflects off the material. The robot is a product of the European Union-funded PISA project, which aims for greater industrial efficiency using robots.

If a company needs to produce something fast but has no worker resources, the idea would be to rent the workerbot and integrate it into human working spaces,” Fraunhofer researcher Dragoljub Surdilovic told The Engineer.

The better can work for  24 hours and it would prefer to stay busy because If its work is going smoothly, it will smile happily.  If it looks bored, it’s waiting for work, and the production manager knows the production process can be speeded up,

 By  Fraunhofer Research News.