The globally recognized authority on robot safety Roberta Nelson Shea joined Universal Robots as new Global Technical Compliance Officer. Nelson Shea has chaired the U.S. National Robot Safety Committee for 23 years, spent more than 35 years within manufacturing automation and has been recently a Convenor of the ISO committee publishing technical specifications on risk assessments of collaborative robots.
She will continue pioneer and drive the topic of these specifications working in UR, as an important first step in providing guidelines on cobot safety and risk assessments, and she will also teach and advise UR staff and distributors on these topics. “We are at the start of a new generation of robotics – said Nelson Shea -, with Universal Robots as a young and vibrant first mover, looking at robots with a different lens, bringing a breath of fresh air to the industry. Their collaborative robot arms have made human-robot collaboration possibile, ushering in a wide range of new viable robot applications”.