Mitsubishi Electric · Industrial · 2020
The Mitsubishi Electric MELFA ASSISTA (RV-5AS-D) is Mitsubishi's collaborative robot, fusing the company's decades of industrial-robot experience with cobot-style ease of use — a 6-axis arm with 5 kg payload, 910 mm reach and a high ±0.03 mm repeatability at nominal load. It's designed to work hand-in-hand with people without fences or enclosures, using per-joint torque sensing for collision monitoring under ISO 10218-1 / ISO/TS 15066, an LED ring for at-a-glance status, and Direct Teaching buttons for point teaching without a pendant. Programming is deliberately open and intuitive via RT VisualBox's drag-and-drop visual environment (no-code), MELFA BASIC VI for depth, and RT ToolBox3, with a broad gripper and vision ecosystem including MELFA-Vision and the AI-driven MELFA SmartPlus option. Uncommon among cobots, it's engineered for food-safe environments, making it a fit for hygiene-sensitive pick-and-place, assembly, machine tending and inspection, as well as research and education.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Industrial |
| Sub-type | Collaborative Robot (Cobot) |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2020 |
| Origin | Japan |
| Degrees of freedom | 6 |
| Payload | 5 kg |
| Reach | 910 mm |
| Repeatability | ±0.03 mm |
| Camera | MELFA-Vision / MELFA SmartPlus AI option |
| AI model | MELFA SmartPlus — AI-based force sense, calibration & predictive maintenance (option) |
| Operating system | MELFA RT ToolBox3 / iQ Platform |
| Use cases | Pick & place, Assembly, Machine tending, Inspection, Food-safe handling |
| Made in | Japan |
