How cobots are revolutionising vision systems

The key advantage of using cobots is, that as well as being very easy to program, they are also inherently safe to work with and alongside humans, subject to risk assessment. No longer the need for expensive safety guarding requirements.

Either the vision system is guiding the cobot, or, providing the cobot positional data of a component for ‘Pick and Place’ applications. Or, the cobot is used to move the vision camera to the component to be inspected or the component to the camera. The ‘Guide to teach’ function of cobots enables quick and easy programming and they can easily be integrated into existing production systems or re-deployed to another application as required.

Acrovision is the sole UK distributor for both the low cost AUBO-i5 collaborative robot and the Meca500 ultracompact industrial robot arm – both have excellent repeatability.

We are using cobots not only for our own product handling requirements where barcode reading or vision inspection is required, but also for a diverse range of automatic handling activities where the safe and cost-effective implementation of a cobot provides an exceptionally quick Return on Investment. Stand A64