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Sawyer

Sawyer is a 7‑axis single-arm collaborative robot (cobot) from Rethink Robotics for flexible industrial automation.

A closer look / Specifications
Degrees of freedom
7
Height · h
104 cm
Mass · m
19 kg
Payload
4 kg
Speed · v
Not listed
Form factor
industrial
Family
Industrial Humanoids, Commercial General-Purpose Humanoids
Field notes

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the platform.

Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer is a stationary 7‑DOF collaborative robot arm introduced in 2015. It targets manufacturing tasks such as machine tending, assembly and inspection, using integrated sensing (including vision and force/torque sensing) and the Intera software environment. Rated payload is about 4 kg; the original platform is discontinued and found mainly on the secondary market.

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