Facts

• Company: Mecademic Industrial Robotics
• Product type: Scara Robot
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://mecademic.com/products/mcs500-scara-robot/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

MCS500 is Mecademic ultra-compact four-axis SCARA robot for small-part industrial automation. It is designed for confined workcells and high-precision tasks such as pick-and-place, assembly, handling and light manufacturing workflows.

Overview

MCS500 is Mecademic ultra-compact four-axis SCARA robot for small-part industrial automation. It is designed for confined workcells and high-precision tasks such as pick-and-place, assembly, handling and light manufacturing workflows.

Market context

MCS500 is Mecademic's compact SCARA robot for fast, precise small-part automation.

• Target environment: Factory cells, lab automation benches and small-footprint assembly environments.
• Workflow context: Pick-and-place, assembly, inspection, dispensing and small-part handling.
• Customer context: Machine builders, lab automation teams and manufacturers needing compact SCARA automation.
• Deployment model: Commercial SCARA robot with published payload, reach and repeatability specs.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available robot in Mecademic's MicroDASH line.
• Adoption constraints: Payload and reach are intentionally small; it is built for precision micro-automation rather than broad industrial lifting.
• Market position: Precision SCARA counterpart to Meca500, aimed at compact workcells with high repeatability requirements.
• Adjacent products: Meca500, compact SCARA robots, small-part automation

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Pick-and-place, assembly, inspection, dispensing and small-part handling.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factory cells, lab automation benches and small-footprint assembly environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Pick-and-place, assembly, inspection, dispensing and small-part handling.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factory cells, lab automation benches and small-footprint assembly environments.

Specifications

• Horizontal Reach Mm: 225 mm
• Position Repeatability Mm: 0.005 mm
• Rated Payload Kg: 0.5 kg
• Max Payload Kg: 1 kg
• Robot Arm Weight Kg: 4.3 kg
• Cycle Time S: 0.42 s
• Ip Rating: IP40

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial manipulation system
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor

Timeline / Research

• 2023-10-05 - Product Launch - Mecademic launches MicroDASH MCS500 micro-SCARA robot - The MicroDASH series began with first shipments of the MCS500 SCARA.