Mullen said the company’s robots are being used in aerospace, automotive and many other industries. “The ROI component really starts to go through the roof when you add the ability to re-allocate the program, re-teach the program very easily, by anybody in the facility, and to change the location of the auto- mated device at any place in the facility, depending on where the need is,” he said. “BMW and other automakers are using our robots now.”
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New 3D Vision-Guided Robotics Recent advances in 3D vision sys-
tems also are moving robotic automation forward, particularly in offering more ef- fective methods for difficult vision tasks such as bin-picking. In bin-picking applications, problems often arise when parts are stacked on top of each other and may be hidden, or interlocking with other parts.
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