Robotic palletizers, which are automatic or semi-automatic, usually stand between a pallet dispenser and a pallet conveyor belt line that carries incoming products. The products are lifted and neatly organized onto a pallet by a hydraulic robotic arm, attached to suction cup arms or flat pincer arms. While robotic palletizers can only lift one item at a time, they are still much faster than their human counterparts, and they do not carry risks of fatigue or injury.
Robotic palletizers can handle both heavy and very fragile objects, and can be altered to accommodate different products, like pails, drums, bags, cases and bottles. In cases like these, robotic palletizers may be renamed after the product they load and unload. So, you may also hear the above referred to robotic pail palletizers, robotic drum palletizers, robotic bag palletizers, robotic case palletizers and robotic bottle palletizers, respectively.
Other robotic palletizer varieties include articulated arm palletizers, selective compliant articulated robot arm (SCARA) palletizers and gantry palletizers.
Automatic and robotic palletizers have many qualities that elevate them above manual palletizers, such load stability, precision, operation speed and fewer associated worker injuries. They make moving packaged units much easier, safer and less labour intensive. Also, they make it possible to move more loads at once. Though the purchase of a palletizer is a large initial investment, its many advantages compensate for the cost many times over.