The universal robotic cell features a manipulator robot with precision under 1 mm and a state-of-the-art vision system that perceives the environment to execute robotic operations. These cells are designed to test novel approaches in the manufacturing industry, with a major focus on machine vision, providing greater flexibility in the robot’s working space.
Key Technologies
- Vision system: The cells are equipped with RGB and depth cameras, enabling a wide range of object detection and operation capabilities.
- Conveyor belt: One demonstrator includes a moving conveyor belt that transports objects from the distributor to the robot.
- Encoder: An encoder tracks the position of objects beyond the field of view for sorting operations.
- Industrial depth camera: One cell is equipped with an industrial depth camera that allows 6D pose estimation of objects ranging from a few centimeters to a few meters.
Unique Features
The cell enables quick prototyping and sorting tasks using generative gripper design and advanced computer vision algorithms. This allows consumers to evaluate sorting operations on their items and determine whether to implement the solution based on the system’s performance.
Commercial Benefits for Entrepreneurs
- Flexibility: The flexible design allows consumers to experiment with sorting and manipulation operations on their items and choose the right solution.
- Cost savings: Robots can perform repetitive tasks continuously, reducing the need for human labor and eliminating bottlenecks, thus running 24/7 without interruption.
- Evaluation of various vision systems: Thanks to variety of available equipment, vision systems and specialized algorithms can be evaluated to achieve the best performance.
- Force feedback of manipulation: Solve demanding manipulation tasks thanks to feedback from the force-torque sensor at the robot flange.