Facts

• Company: Mecademic Industrial Robotics
• Product type: Industrial Robot Arm
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://mecademic.com/products/meca500-industrial-robot-arm/

Profile sections

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

Summary

Meca500 is Mecademic compact six-axis industrial robot arm for precision automation. It is used in micro-assembly, testing, inspection, optical alignment, dispensing and machine-tending tasks where a small footprint and high repeatability are required.

Overview

Meca500 is Mecademic compact six-axis industrial robot arm for precision automation. It is used in micro-assembly, testing, inspection, optical alignment, dispensing and machine-tending tasks where a small footprint and high repeatability are required.

Market context

Meca500 is an ultra-compact six-axis industrial robot arm for precision automation in tight workcells.

• Target environment: Factory automation cells, laboratories, micro-assembly lines and precision manufacturing environments.
• Workflow context: Small-part handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection and precision manipulation.
• Customer context: Automation teams, lab automation integrators, machine builders and manufacturers with space-constrained workcells.
• Deployment model: Commercial industrial robot sold as a compact arm with Mecademic controller and integration tooling.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available precision arm with published specifications and industrial deployment paths.
• Adoption constraints: Payload is limited by design; strongest fit is precision work where footprint and repeatability matter more than lifting capacity.
• Market position: Benchmark compact six-axis arm for precision automation and micro-manipulation workflows.
• Adjacent products: MCS500, compact industrial arms, lab automation robots

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Small-part handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection and precision manipulation.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Factory automation cells, laboratories, micro-assembly lines and precision manufacturing environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Small-part handling, assembly, dispensing, inspection and precision manipulation.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Factory automation cells, laboratories, micro-assembly lines and precision manufacturing environments.

Specifications

• Payload Kg: 0.5 kg
• Reach Mm: 330 mm
• Weight Kg: 4.6 kg
• Position Repeatability Mm: 0.005 mm
• Degrees Of Freedom: 6

Tags

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

Timeline / Research

• 2020-07-23 - Research Publication - Real-time collision-detection paper evaluates self-collision checking on Meca500 - The paper presents a high-precision real-time collision-detection system for robotics using URDF mod…