Dobot CR16AL
Dobot · China · 2026
The slowest arm Dobot builds, and deliberately so: 16 kg reaching 1,300 mm on joints capped at 110 deg/s, 300 mm further than the CR16A for identical payload and mass.
CR16AL is the one arm in the CRA family whose joints are governed down: 110 deg/s in J1, J2 and J3 and 180 deg/s in the wrist, against 150/180/223 deg/s everywhere else in the range. That is the price of its geometry. It carries the same 16 kg as the CR16A and weighs the same 40 kg, but reaches 1,300 mm instead of 1,000 - a longer lever on the same motors - and its repeatability sits at +/-0.04 mm rather than +/-0.03 mm. It is the only long-reach arm in the family that does not lose payload for its extra radius: the CR6AL stretches to 1,800 mm but drops to 6 kg. Dobot has published no launch announcement for this model. The catalogue dates it to 2026 on two independent traces: it is absent from the web archive snapshot of the series page taken on 11 January 2026 and present in the snapshot of 19 July 2026, and the Last-Modified header on its product image reads 20 March 2026. The year therefore comes from archive evidence, not from a statement by the manufacturer. Common to the CRA series: six rotary axes, a stand-alone safety controller rated PLd Cat.3 with more than twenty safety functions, certification to ISO 13849-1, ISO 10218-1 and ISO/TS 15066, laser calibration giving absolute positioning accuracy under 0.4 mm, an electromagnetic brake that engages within 18 ms and holds position within 1 mm on power loss, 24 digital inputs and outputs with both PNP and NPN switching, and Modbus TCP/RTU, EtherNet/IP and PROFINET as standard. The arm runs DobotStudio Pro; a 10.1-inch teach pendant, the SafeSkin proximity layer (15 cm pre-collision sensing, 0.01 s monitoring, 0.1 s response) and the VX500 five-megapixel smart camera are optional. Dobot claims a 25% shorter cycle time than the previous CR series. One inconsistency in Dobot's own published data is worth recording rather than hiding: the series comparison table gives this family maximum linear speeds of 3 to 5.5 m/s, while the CR20A product page puts maximum TCP speed at 2,000 mm/s - a gap of nearly threefold that the manufacturer does not explain. Dobot publishes no list price and no separate datasheet for this model; every figure here comes from the series comparison table.
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