This blog comes from my discussions with Composite Alliance Corp. (CAC, Dallas, TX, US). I interviewed CAC for the two-part print article above, but was not able to include most of the information due ...

There are a wide variety of linearmotion systems available for heavy automation and pick-andplace applications, though most use one of two load-bearing technologies: wheels and recirculating-ball ...

Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

ABB’s new Robotic Item Picker uses artificial intelligence to accurately detect and pick items in unstructured environments. The ABB Robotic Item Picker. Source: ABB The Robotic Item Picker, recently ...

Stereo camera use case with autonomous mobile robots. Source: OTTO and Gideon Brothers. 3D sensors are a fundamental technology for measuring depth perception. These sensors can be found in several ...

There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be ...