Ten years ago, industrial automation was all about pre-programmed movements. Today, it’s capable of much more dynamic and intelligent processes that are less rigid. Core to this has been the integration of advanced vision systems.
This change kicked off while 2D vision was still the dominant form of guidance, but moving to 3D guidance has seen another wave of innovation in manufacturing.
Perceiving depth and spatial orientation has lifted the ceiling on the complexity of tasks robots can handle, but it’s also lifted the floor in how precise and reliable they are too, which is arguably more important. [Read more…] about Benefits of 3D guidance in industrial robots