A new integrated safety system is now available for Mitsubishi Electric's latest generation of articulated-arm robots. Standard equipment includes high-performance safety systems such as individual joint torque monitoring and a sensorless crash detection feature, which instantly stops the robot as soon as its gripper encounters an obstacle. An intelligent maintenance forecast system also automatically calculates the date for the next service on the basis of the robot's load and work patterns. The system calculates the next maintenance date on the basis of nearly 200 individual parameters, such as operating time, handling payload weight and the acceleration rates of the gripper arm.