The end of separate worlds

Article | SPS Magazin

St. Pölten June 9, 2026 - Although collaborative robotics is considered a key driver of automation, the effort required for functional safety is growing disproportionately due to outdated system architectures. In many robotic systems, safety is still implemented as a separate, hardware-based parallel system. This results in duplicate hardware, high engineering effort, and complex certification processes.

With Neuron Automation’s integrated approach, safety is executed as a software-based function on a shared platform together with functional control, significantly reducing Hardware requirements, development time, and system complexity.

While conventional industrial robots are operated in enclosed areas, collaborative robotics requires
continuous monitoring of movement, speed, and force. Safety therefore becomes a central system function. Yet this is precisely where the traditional separation of functional control and safety is increasingly reaching its limits.

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