NexCOBOT Certifiable Functional Safety Solutions for Your Robot
Building a safe robot takes more than an emergency stop. Every robot needs a complete safety system — sensors that detect people and hazards, a controller that makes safe decisions, and drives that carry them out reliably. ROBASafe is NexCOBOT's family of functional safety solutions that covers this whole chain. Every solution is built to be certifiable — some already certified, others on the way — so whichever you choose, you're building on a foundation designed to meet the standard. And because ROBASafe is open, you can pair our products with the third-party safety devices you already trust.
What a complete robot safety system needs
A functional safety system follows a simple chain: safety input → safety logic → safety output. Sensors on the input side detect hazards and people. The safety controller in the middle evaluates those inputs and runs the safety functions. On the output side, safety joints and drives carry out safe motion — and feed safe position, velocity and torque data back to the controller, so it always knows the robot's real state.
ROBASafe provides the core of this system — the safety controllers, plus NexCOBOT's safety joints and drives — while staying open to third-party safety sensors and any FSoE-based device. You build the system that fits your robot, not the other way around.
Safety controllers: from development platform to complete solution
At the heart of every safety system is the controller. ROBASafe offers a range of them, and they differ in one key way: how much is already certifiable out of the box.
Some are development platforms — they give you a certifiable hardware and software foundation, and you build your own safety application on top, with full flexibility across any robot type. Others are complete solutions — the safety application is already built in, so you can deploy a compliant robot without developing the safety logic yourself.
The diagram above shows how far the certifiable scope (in amber) reaches for each product. SCB100 gives you the most freedom to build; ESC 211 gives you the most complete, ready-to-deploy package, reaching all the way up to the ISO 10218 safety application layer. ESC 210 and the MARS400 / RCB400 platforms sit in between.
