Ingress Protection (IP) Rating

The two-digit international standard rating for how well a device resists dust and water.

The IP rating is defined by the international standard IEC 60529, written as “IP” followed by two digits. The first digit rates protection against solid objects, including dust, from 0 to 6, where 6 means fully dust-tight; the second rates protection against water, from 0 to 9, where a higher number withstands more — for example, 4 means splashing water, and 7 means brief submersion. If a category wasn't tested, it's replaced with an X, as in IPX7. On a robot's product page, IP54 roughly means dust-protected and splash-resistant, while IP67 means fully dust-tight and able to survive brief submersion. This rating determines whether a robot can be used outdoors, in the rain, in a greasy factory, or in an environment that needs to be hosed down, which is why it matters a great deal for quadruped robots, inspection robots, and robot arms used in the food industry.

ExampleAn outdoor inspection quadruped rated IP67 can generally handle being rained on or wading through a shallow puddle.

Also called

IP67, IP54, IP Code

Related

Quadruped Robot · Inspection Robot · Industrial Robot · Joint Actuator Module · Mean Time Between Failures

Sources

IP code - Wikipedia