TECO Smart Anti-Epidemic Robot Granted Silver Award of Taiwan Excellence Awards
TECO
Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. has staged another stellar performance in
2021 Taiwan Excellence Awards, winning the silver award with its smart ultrasonic
spray anti-epidemic mobile robot, after following the golden award for its
e-vehicle powertrain "T Power" last year, or the third straight year
for it to garner a golden or a silver award.
Developed
by the company in less than one year, the robot features lightweight and agile
movement, having been applied in multiple sites, including Nangang Software
Park, Taipei New Horizon, Honhui Plaza with over 10,000 hours of operating
time. The product is poised to make inroads into overseas markets, according to
Sophia Chiu, TECO chairman.
Nicknamed
"T-Smurf" by the development team, the robot offers double
sterilization functions, spraying Japan's patented ultrahaline disinfecting
fluid with ultrasonic atomizer for disinfection of upper area and disinfecting
the ground with UVC irradiation via UVC LED lamp. Equipped with 33 domestic and
foreign patents, the product boasts a unique portable lithium-ion battery set
and a battery management system (BMS), good for eight-hour operation. The
battery can be charged automatically or manually, enabling around-the-clock
operation. It is the latest version of the company autonomous mobile robot
(AMR) since its rollout in 2018, following the previous versions of "smart
meal delivery robot," "smart dish-collection robot," and "smart
follower." It is developing in the direction of collaborative robot.
A number of other TECO products
also won the acknowledgment of 2021 Taiwan Excellence Awards, including e-bus
powertrain, which boasts modular design, lightweight (15% less weight than
other similar-grade motors), higher power output (1.5 times counterparts), and
compact size (25% smaller than counterparts),. Another product is the knuckle
module of precision collaborative robot, weighing only 1.41 kg, the lightest in
the field, whose design can be custom-made, in terms of motor wattage and speed
reduction ratio. The number of TECO's award-winning products totals 17 this
year, the highest among all the participating enterprises for the award. For
more information, please refer to https://www.taiwanexcellence.org/tw/award/product/result?page=1