FANUC CRX-10iA

The CRX-10iA is FANUC's collaborative six-axis, introduced in 2019 and designed for power-and-force-limited operation near people. It carries a 10 kg payload out to a 1249 mm reach, holds 0.04 mm repeatability, and is rated IP67. At roughly 40 kg it's light enough to move between cells, which fits the machine tending, palletizing, and assembly work FANUC aims it at.

Setup leans on drag-and-teach: an operator hand-guides the arm through positions and refines them on a tablet interface. That fast hand-guided teaching is the CRX's calling card, and it pays off on short runs and frequent changeovers. FANUC's teaching positions on the pendant guide covers the position work once the initial walk-through is done.

As a collaborative arm it runs under power and force limiting, so it can share a workspace with operators once a cell risk assessment signs off the layout. The trade is throughput: its collaborative speed limits cycle rates against a caged robot on the same job. For work that stays slow and mixed, that ceiling is easier to live with.

The arm runs on FANUC's R-30iB Mini Plus controller and is positioned as a low-maintenance machine. Routine care still helps: schedule a full image backup so the cell rebuilds fast, and keep controller-battery replacement on the calendar. If a servo alarm such as SRVO-062 shows up, our FANUC code library and parts catalog, down to the controller battery, point to the next step.

Mounting covers floor, inverted, and angle, so it can hang over a machine or sit beside a pallet. Choose the CRX-10iA when you want a movable 10 kg arm a line operator can teach by hand and stand beside. Skip it when the job needs full-speed cycles behind a fence, because that's exactly where the collaborative speed limit costs you.