Rosatom Service (part of Rosatom’s Electric Power Division) has opened the first demonstration hall of industrial robots of the AIM brand. The hall was inaugurated by Rosatom Service Director Evgeniy Salkov and the Director of the Rosatom Department for Support of New Businesses, Dmitry Baidarov. “By 2030, we plan to localise the full technological production cycle in Russia, in other words, to develop the production of robots on our own technological base. We certainly have all the possibilities to do this,” noted Salkov.
The demonstration room displays industrial robotic complexes of various carrying capacity and functionality, including those critical for an efficient and safe production process – welding, machine maintenance, metalworking, stamping, milling, palletising, etc. Rosatom Service’s order book for these industrial robotic system complexes currently includes contracts at the execution stage – both for customers within the industry and outside it. Different series of robots have “atomic” names. “Quark” robots are compact desktop robots with a load capacity of up to 8 kg and a range of less than a metre. “Boson” robots, with a palletising function and ultra-high load capacity has a reach radius of up to 4.3 metres and can lift loads weighing up to 3 tonnes. The “Photon” series of robots perform welding work and can move objects weighing up to 10 kg a distance of up to 2 metres.
Rosatom’s Director of Digitalisation, Ekaterina Solntseva, emphasised that robotics play an important role in achieving a new quality of industrial production. She noted that robots have been introduced at enterprises of various Rosatom divisions, adding that the degree of robotisation of production in the nuclear industry will increase.
“We need to significantly improve competencies in this area so that with the introduction of industrial robots, work efficiency increases,” she noted. “Robotics is an area in which we can take a worthy place in the world, thanks to the achievements of domestic mathematical and engineering schools. It is important that, while solving the industry’s problems, we simultaneously create a market offer for the country.”
By 2030, Russia aims be among the 25 leading countries with respect to the number of industrial robots. As part of the robotics industry, Roatom Service offers services for the design and manufacture of robotic complexes and other non-standard equipment for nuclear enterprises and beyond
Researched and written by Judith Perera
