Improving Assembly With Vision Robots

While robot­ic assem­bly appli­ca­tions have increased in both com­plex­i­ty and num­ber of the years, a large num­ber of appli­ca­tions have been passed over due to tech­nol­o­gy. When auto­mat­ed robots are fit­ted with 3‑D vision, how­ev­er, the realm of pos­si­bil­i­ty rapid­ly expands. 

Inte­grat­ing vision into robots has great­ly increased their flex­i­bil­i­ty. Robot­ic vision is used in a grow­ing num­ber of robot­ic appli­ca­tions and allows busi­ness­es of all sizes to achieve sig­nif­i­cant increased pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, mak­ing them more com­pet­i­tive in their mar­kets. These auto­mat­ed robot­ic sys­tems are capa­ble of per­form­ing com­pli­cat­ed tasks while being able to work longer hours that human workers. 

3D vision robots, can also pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant cost sav­ings to man­u­fac­tur­ers by elim­i­nat­ing the need for cus­tom trays or locat­ing devices to repeat­ed­ly posi­tion parts for appli­ca­tions like bin pick­ing — some­thing that was required by old­er robot­ic applications. 

The vision robot can locate all the avail­able parts in a bin, choose the next part to pick up and fig­ure out the best grip­per ori­en­ta­tion for pick­ing the item up and mov­ing it. Then, it moves down the line to oth­er auto­mat­ed robot­ic arms that work on dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions for production. 

This 3‑D vision makes auto­mat­ed robots more ver­sa­tile and able to com­plete sophis­ti­cat­ed tasks in the face of haz­ardous or uncer­tain envi­ron­ments. The addi­tion of machine vision can increase a com­pa­ny’s pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and enhance the qual­i­ty of their products.

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