Robots Expand Their Reach

Robots are reaching into new markets thanks to improvements in vision, human motion replication, and collaborative models. Current 3D vision-guided robotics (VGR) systems can multitask - seeing and determining the orientation of parts, while maintaining awareness of their own location, movement, and gripper orientation. Grippers have a new look and feel; many are shaped like a human hand and are capable of exerting variable force. Collaborative robots combine advances in both fields, as well as additional safety features, to be able to work safely and efficiently with mere mortals.

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