Cobot Palletisers

A cobot palletiser uses a collaborative robot — one with built-in force and speed limiting — to build pallets without perimeter fencing. It suits lower-throughput lines and constrained floor space, and can be made mobile to serve several production lines from one machine.

Yes, and this has historically been the limitation of cobot palletising. A 1,902 mm reach on a fixed plinth covers a standard 1,165 mm Australian pallet to a height of 1,400 mm with the pallet on the floor.

In true collaborative mode, linear speed is limited to 250 mm/s, giving up to 4–6 cycles per minute. With floor safety scanners fitted the robot can run faster when the zone is clear, reaching up to 8 cycles per minute. The robot’s mechanical maximum is not achievable collaboratively.

It operates without perimeter guards subject to an application-specific risk assessment, which sets the external force limit and the collaborative speed limit. Where a higher rate is needed, floor laser scanners provide speed and separation monitoring in place of fencing. Fence-free, yes; unconditionally guard-free, no.

The payload is 25 kg including the tooling, so practical carton weight is lower — we’ve delivered cells handling cartons up to 15 kg. Above that, a full robot cell with a clamp gripper is the better platform.

Yes, and it’s the strongest application. A mobile cell on a castored plinth docks to fixed mechanical datum stations at the end of each line, each with its own safety zone. One machine can be scoped to serve several lines that couldn’t individually justify a palletiser.

One day. A cobot palletiser can be brought to site, connected and running in as little as one business day. Lead time from order is 18–20 weeks, largely driven by robot availability.

No — those sit outside the cobot cell scope. If you need slip sheets, layer pads or robot pallet handling, a full robot cell with a combination gripper is the right machine, and we’ll price one alongside.

One. A full robot cell with a servo clamp gripper picks several cartons per cycle, and that difference accounts for much of the throughput gap between the two platforms.

Above roughly 8 cycles per minute, when you need multiple cartons per pick, when you need slip sheets or pallet handling on the tool, when pallets exceed 1,400 mm, when you’re palletising heavy bags, or when one robot must serve several infeeds and pallet stations.