New palletising robot for loads up to 400kg
December 1st 2004

Kawasaki's new MD400N robot has been designed for the palletising and depalletising of all kinds of goods, from food and drink, building supplies and medicines to printed matter.

The MD400N can handle loads up to 400kg and stack them on a large pallet up to 2.7m high. With the 400kg load, the robot provides a linear movement of 400mm vertically and 2000mm horizontally, performing high-speed motions as fast as 740 times per hour.

The robot has an extremely small footprint enabling it to work in a compact area. This is because Kawasaki uses a special link design which eliminates the heavy and large rear counterbalance normally needed and as used by most other heavy payload palletising robots.

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