MCLEAN, VA-Braintech Inc., designer, developer and implementor of software and peripherals for vision-guided robotics systems, opened an office in Detroit in early January that houses its U.S. engineering, sales and development center and robotics laboratory.

Braintech has hired and is in the process of hiring additional sales executives, as well as application engineers and vision scientists for the office, which will be headed by Chief Sales Officer Jim Dara.