Watch the above video of the World’s First Complete Stainless Steel Robot with 7 degrees of freedom. This Stainless Steel Robot is developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries with a name of MSR05 arm.
The company has designed this stainless steel robot for the pharmaceutical industry, where the robot will deal with handling dangerous drugs. It was recently displayed at the Interphex Japan Pharmaceutical Industry Trade Show.
The reason for developing MSR05 arm with complete stainless steel is to minimize the possibility of contamination. Moreover, hydrogen peroxide gas can be used to sterilize the assembly.
Kawasaki’s MSR05 Stainless Steel Robot is expected to be available in January, 2014.