The renewed interest for vision guided robotics (VGR) for the manufacturing of parts and packaging of goods is much in part to the number of advances in sophisticated technologies over the last decade. Improvements in size, speed, precision, flexibility and price for a variety of devices have created a technological awareness that is rebuilding confidence for the use of high-quality vision technology in robotic automation.
Well-suited to meet unique application requirements, robots are now able to perform tasks without operator intervention and reprogramming. And, advancements in precision for machine vision have created next-generation imaging systems more capable of finding an object and subsequently providing an accurate and acceptable location to the robot, providing the functionality needed to efficiently and economically fulfill demands for diverse markets.