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Article Excerpt
Larry Maloney, Contributing Technical Editor, larrymaloney@verizon.net
Adding machine vision to a production process presents a big enough challenge to most engineers, but what happens when you combine vision with robotics?
The answer, obviously, is that it's no walk in the park, yet more and more companies are pairing the two technologies. Adept Technology, a Pleasanton, CA, company that has shipped more than 25,000 robots in its 26-year history, reports that about 40% of its applications pair robotics and machine vision. That's up from 30% just two years ago.
Behind this increase, said Adept senior systems engineer Travis Armstrong, is the surge in flexible...
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