Dobot Nova Series Robotic Arms

The Dobot Nova series are compact, lightweight 6-axis collaborative robots (cobots) built around a palm-sized DC controller. Dobot designed them first for service automation, such as coffee, drinks and food preparation, retail and physiotherapy, and now sells them for light industrial work too. The Nova 2 carries 2 kg with 625 mm reach and weighs 11 kg, and the Nova 5 carries 5 kg with 850 mm reach and weighs 14 kg.

Both offer ±0.05 mm repeatability, IP54 protection and mounting at any angle. Collision detection has five adjustable levels and stops the arm within 0.01 s of contact. Dobot says the Nova arms are 33 to 44% lighter and 20% smaller than its CR and CRA equivalents, so they fit kiosks, counters and tight cells.

Program them with Blockly or trajectory teaching in DobotStudio Pro, with the CRStudio app, or through SDKs for languages including C++, C# and Python. The Nova 2 is also the arm inside the Dobot X-Trainer AI data collection system.