Maintenance touchpad for robots

According to Industrie.com, the Swiss-Swedish company, ABB, has launched a touchpad allowing the guided repair and maintenance of robots. This tablet PC allows all minor operations to be carried out without necessarily using a technician on site. It explains in detail the procedure to follow in case difficulties arise: photos, videos, technical drawings, supporting comments. Rather than rely solely on specialists, from now on companies can train their technicians in this tablet. At the moment this robotic iPad only works with the IRB 6600 model but several other models should be added soon.