Product profile
DR/8-16B Stainless
DR/8-16B Stainless is FANUC's long-reach all-stainless parallel-link robot for food production. Its corrosion-resistant exposed structure and 1,600 mm oper...
Facts
- Company
- FANUC
- Product type
- industrial_robot_arm
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- food_packaging
- Website
- https://www.fanuc.co.jp/en/profile/pr/newsrelease/2026/notice20260518.html
About DR/8-16B Stainless
DR/8-16B Stainless is FANUC's long-reach all-stainless parallel-link robot for food production. Its corrosion-resistant exposed structure and 1,600 mm operating diameter target hygienic picking and packaging lines where cleaning and long reach are critical.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Food-grade delta robot
Core: Long-reach hygienic picking
Function: Picks and handles food products at high speed in washdown production environments
Audience: Food manufacturers and packaging integrators
Specifications
- construction
- All exposed metal exterior parts made from corrosion-resistant stainless steel
- degrees_of_freedom
- 4 axes
- encoder_architecture
- Battery-less pulse-coders available from October 2026
- mass_production_start
- August 2026
- operating_diameter_mm
- 1600 mm
- payload_kg
- 8 kg
- protection_rating
- IP69K
- target_market
- Food production and hygienic packaging
Operations
- Environment
- food_production, washdown_environment, packaging_line, hygienic_workcell
- Primary user
- food_manufacturers, packaging_integrators, automation_engineers
- Role
- food_packaging, high_speed_picking, conveyor_handling, industrial_automation
- Interaction model
- high_speed_picking, conveyor_tracking, washdown_operation, end_effector_integration
- Mobility class
- stationary_robot_arm, overhead_robot_mount
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- FANUC Q1 robot sales rise 18.7% as orders reach JPY 97.9bn — 2026-07-31
- Fujitsu begins physical-AI business study with FANUC, Yaskawa and Kawasaki — 2026-07-16
- Vention and FANUC integrate robots with MachineMotion AI — 2026-06-22
- FANUC launches DR/8-16B Stainless food-handling robot — 2026-05-18
- FANUC strengthens NVIDIA integration for robot simulation and digital twins — 2026-05-15
- FANUC and Google collaborate on Physical AI robot systems — 2026-05-13
- Matrix Design demonstrates FANUC CRX machine-tending cell at Automate 2026 — 2026-05-06
- FANUC, Schmalz and Orbbec cell joins Pelican at MODEX 2026 — 2026-04-13