FANUC M-2000iA/1700L

The FANUC M-2000iA/1700L anchors the top of the company's handling range, a six-axis arm rated to lift 1700 kg at the wrist. Its 4683 mm reach carries that load through a wide envelope, wide enough to swing large castings and full vehicle bodies. FANUC introduced it in 2015 and calls it one of the strongest six-axis robots built.

At around 12,500 kg the machine's own mass sets the terms for any install, and the record flags a massive footprint and real foundation needs. It mounts to the floor. The slab and foundation come before the tooling on a cell this size.

Its listed jobs are heavy material handling and machine tending, the kind of work where one pick moves a full assembly instead of splitting it across stations. Six axes give it the orientation freedom to set awkward loads down in place.

Positioning repeats to 0.27 mm, a figure sized to the scale of the arm rather than to fine assembly. The R-30iB Plus controller runs the motion. The datasheet lists an IP67 wrist & J3 arm / IP54 (IP56 opt.) body.

Routine service leans on FANUC guides such as quick mastering and reducer work like greasing a reducer. Servo alarms such as SRVO-062 and feedback parts like the pulsecoder each get their own reference page a technician can pull up.

The fit is narrow by design: if a job means moving 1700 kg or reaching past four metres from the base, few arms answer it. Anything lighter, or a cell short on floor space, is over-served by a machine this large.