Let AJ Robotics Show How You Can Have a More Efficient Workplace

With recent media reports hinting that up to 30 per cent of the UK’s traditional jobs could be replaced by robots by 2030, many leading AI and robotics experts are producing machines that are primarily best at handling jobs which humans find repetitive or dangerous, or which are done in hostile environments.

So rather than Skynet taking over, this heralds a much more collaborative future between man and machine.

That’s certainly the main message from Wolverhampton-based AJ Robotics. While it is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of automation and robotics solutions, it stresses that there will always be a need for a human element to its work – especially in installing, servicing and ensuring that companies get the most from their automated solutions in the long term.

Managing Director Peter Tobin explained that robots’ main benefits are “being able to move quickly and accurately, and handle parts too small for human eyes and fingers without making any mistakes.

“That’s one reason growing numbers of products are designed for robotic assembly from the outset,” he added.

Also, sophisticated technology which robots use to see is increasingly being fitted to them as standard, while when in use, many can sense an unexpected change in the forces they encounter which often signals a problem on an assembly line, and will automatically adapt to take account of this.

AJ Robotics prides itself on dealing with many manufacturers of robotic equipment, which enable it to offer solutions for every type of production environment.

It is very proud to be the only UK distributor of Estun Automation products, which are widely used in the automotive industry, but also in making domestic appliances and construction machinery, and even where working is required across six axes.

But it’s in many more everyday situations where robotics development is starting to make great inroads – and where much of the current research is being concentrated.

“Automation can be highly cost-effective for nearly every size of company,” said Mr Tobin. “And we often see that, when companies can’t compete in efficiency, jobs end up being sent abroad.”

So how do robots benefit jobs and workers, as well as, ultimately, companies’ bottom line?

“They help to create jobs by generating more manufacturing work, they protect workers from the need to carry out repetitive, mundane and dangerous tasks, while also creating more desirable jobs, in fields such as engineering, programming, management and equipment maintenance,” Mr Tobin said.