The Coming Age of Vision-Guided Robots
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Dave Greenfield | AutomationWorld
How vision technologies are expanding industrial pick-and-place robotic processes as well as the robot market as a whole.
One of the biggest advances impacting robotics of all kinds today are new vision technologies. “The incorporation of vision enables a robot to pick and place a variety of parts as well as change tasks because it can see which part it is dealing with and adapt,” says Carlton Heard, vision product marketing manager at National Instruments.
"We are now at a point where processing power and low-cost imaging sensor availability are no longer limiting factors in the use of vision."
Another growing field for vision-enabled robots is mobile robotics. These robots need sophisticated imaging capabilities to perform tasks ranging from obstacle avoidance to visual simultaneous localization and mapping.
“In the next decade, the number of vision systems used by autonomous robots should eclipse the number of systems used by fixed-base robot arms.”
“We are now at a point where processing power and low-cost imaging sensor availability are no longer limiting factors” in the use of vision, ...
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