CRX collaborative robot series Context

Market context

FANUC CRX is a collaborative robot family for industrial cells that need easier teaching, human-adjacent operation and payload coverage from compact handling through larger palletizing and process tasks.

  • Target environment: Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.
  • Workflow context: Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want easier setup than…
  • Customer context: Manufacturers, systems integrators, automation teams, job shops and factory operators evaluating cobots from an established industrial robot OEM.
  • Deployment model: Sold as a commercial FANUC collaborative robot family through FANUC and integrator channels, with multiple payload/reach variants and supporting CRX education, simulation and…
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial FANUC cobot family with multiple payload/reach variants and published product documentation.
  • Adoption constraints: Application fit still depends on safety assessment, tooling, fixturing, reach/payload limits and whether a collaborative cell can meet cycle-time needs versus a higher-speed…
  • Market position: Incumbent industrial cobot family: less startup-novel than newer humanoid or mobile-manipulator systems, but important because it is tied to FANUC's installed factory automation…
  • Adjacent products: Universal Robots UR series, ABB GoFa/SWIFTI, Yaskawa HC series, Doosan collaborative robots

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Collaborative arm automation for handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, palletizing and paint/coating use cases where factories want easier setup than traditional guarded robot cells.

Deployment environment

Manufacturing cells, assembly lines, machine-tending stations, packaging lines, palletizing areas, dispensing, inspection and industrial paint workflows.

Specifications

  • Payload Capacity Kg Range: 5-30 kg across CRX models
  • Speed Range: 1000 mm/s collaborative speed
  • Degrees of freedom: 6
  • Reach: 994-1889 mm across CRX models
  • Repeatability: Model dependent; CRX-10iA/L Paint listed at +/-0.04 mm
  • Safety: Collaborative contact-stop functions; CRX-10iA/L Paint adds ex-proof paint configuration
  • Applications: Handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection, machine tending, packaging, palletizing and paint/coating workflows
  • Variant Summary: CRX-5iA: 5 kg / 994 mm; CRX-10iA: 10 kg / 1249 mm; CRX-10iA/L: 10 kg / 1418 mm; CRX-20iA/L: 20 kg / 1418 mm; CRX-30iA: 30 kg at 1756 mm or 25 kg at 1889 mm.
  • Programming: Hand-guided teaching, tablet-style CRX programming and FANUC controller ecosystem

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