Interesting
Vision-guided robotics (VGR) story on the www.optics.org
website. “Smarter
vision system teaches robots to place parts”
(January 14th,
2014.) This describes work under in Norway to improve bin-picking
performance.
This
is important work, because contrary to what you see at every trade
show, picking parts out of bins is really difficult. So I read the
article carefully, twice, looking for details about what the
Norwegians are doing that’s new.
Nothing.
Zip. Nada. The photo shows a laser line, so I assume there’s some
triangulation and probably point cloud generation going on, combined
with meshing of points and importation into CAD. But I’m just
guessing.
If
asked, I’d also guess that Scorpion Vision is involved this effort.
Thor isn’t usually shy about what his company is doing, so I
imagine a press release will be forthcoming soon. But until then,
please don’t tease me with half the story.
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