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By integrating 3D vision systems from Luxolis AI with collaborative robots (cobots), the company is enhancing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) testing in the electronics manufacturing sector. 3D vision technology can accurately detect and locate components, thus ensuring cobots’ precise and efficient ESD testing without the risk of unwanted collisions.

With the new Nova support for Ruler3000 camera, SICK is now making fast, precise high-end 3D vision applications available to experts and non-experts alike. Within minutes, users can deploy custom applications, inspecting minute details at remarkable speeds. This advancement promises significant enhancements in production efficiency and yield.

Flat panels used in cellphones, in-car displays, and monitors have become larger while pixels have become smaller, which makes it more difficult for machine vision systems to detect manufacturing defects.

Fully automated part picking by robots is a major technical challenge. A particular difficulty is that the components are not always delivered to the robot in an orderly fashion, but rather unsorted and even overlapping each other. This means that humans still have to intervene frequently.

Specim, a leading provider of cutting-edge hyperspectral imaging solutions, recently announced the launch of its new macro lens for the Specim FX10 hyperspectral camera.

The next phase of the ongoing development of the industrial sector is being referred to as Industry 5.0, or 5IR for short. Rather than launching a revolution, 5IR seeks to expand on the foundation established by its predecessor, Industry 4.0, which forever disrupted the industrial landscape by introducing big data, automation, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, M2M and the Internet of Things (IoT).