According to a report written by Rodrigo Riquelme for El Economista, collaborative robots have already been implemented in Mexican small and medium enterprises, particularly in the manufacture sector.

Collaborative robots or cobots, are smaller and easier to operate that the robots working in large assembly lines. In addition, these cobots do not required high investments among SMEs businessmen.

In Mexico, 99% of manufacture is developed by SMEs, which also employ 72% of the working population.

Universal Robots, a Danish company with operations in 15 countries, has already sold 25 thousand cobots. The price of these robots goes from 20,000 euros to 35,000. Training to install them and use them is for free, and technical support is very simple.

Mexico is the 9th country in terms of greatest exposure to automated work on a global level, and the second on a regional level, just behind Brazil.

The penetration of cobots in the Mexican market is a huge challenge in terms of workers’ transformation.