
Sawyer
Sawyer is a 7‑axis single-arm collaborative robot (cobot) from Rethink Robotics for flexible industrial automation.
- 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
Get to know
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.
A few more introductions.

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- DoF
- 6
- Height
- N/A
- Weight
- 53 kg
- Payload
- 10 kg

VinRobotics District 1
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- DoF
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Weight
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- Payload
- N/A

UR20 Cobot
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- DoF
- 6
- Height
- N/A
- Weight
- 64 kg
- Payload
- 20 kg
Big ideas start with
a conversation.
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