Alternatives to Universal Robots

After the US robot manufacturer Rethink Robotics went into insolvency at the beginning of October 2018 (and previously burned financing of over 150 million US-$ - supplement from 01.11.18: the German Hahn Group has taken over Rethink in the meantime), the question arises for some interested parties, what alternative there is to the market leader Universal Robots (has delivered its 25,000 robot in August 2018), which on the one hand offers something comparable and where you can assume that the company will still exist in a few years. One of the alternatives is the HC-10 from Yaskawa (120 cm reach with 10 kg payload, but only IP 20 as protection class), which is nicely explained in this video:

The book "Introduction to Human-Machine Collaboration" gives you a good overview of the world of human-robot collaboration for little money.