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“The jury is pleased to announce the selection of Photoneo’s Motion Cam-3D as the winner of the 16th IERA Award,” says Jury Chair Robert Ambrose from IEEE-RAS. “The award celebrates the combination of innovative concepts with entrepreneurial efforts to bring those ideas to market. This year’s winner is a novel 3D imaging system merging the benefits of both stereo vision with structured light approaches to yield a fast and accurate perception system with applications in society and industry.”
From left to right at the virtual award presentation: Alexander Verl, Chairman ISR; Enrico Krog Iversen, OnRobot, IERA finalist; Robert Ambrose, IERA Awards Chair; Milton Guerry, IFR President; without mask: Svorad Stolc, Photoneo, IERA Award winner.
„MotionCam-3D gives eyes to robots with the highest resolution and accuracy in the world,“ said Jan Zizka, CEO of Bratislava-based maker Photoneo. „Our camera is able to inspect objects moving as fast as 140 kilometres per hour. Its qualities are useful in various fields: e.g. in e commerce and logistics, for object sorting and autonomous delivery systems. The camera also helps in food processing and waste sorting as well as harvesting in agriculture. Thanks to accurate machine vision, robots can also analyse objects with high resolution images, which is important in quality control.“
Smart cobot applications like the IERA award winner considerably lower the hurdles for small and medium-sized companies to use robotics for automation. “A traditional industrial robot can easily be equipped with new tools to transform them into truly collaborative helpers”, said Milton Guerry, President of the IFR.
In 2021 the IERA Award session will be hosted by IEEE RAS at the ICRA conference from May 30 to June 5, 2021 in China. The call for application has been released and is available below. Applications must be submitted until February 28, 2021.
Wire Cutting
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A FANUC Robot LR Mate 200iD is loading a WireCut EDM machine
Collaborative Robot
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YUMI is ABB's collaborative robot on the market
Electronics industry
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Robots at assembly line in the electronics industry
Automotive welding
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Robots welding car chassis in the automotive industry
Automotive welding
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Robots welding parts in the automotive industry
UR5 - A highly flexible robot arm
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Trelleborg uses UR5 robots (payload 5kg) to carry out machine tending mainly on CNC machines
UR3 - ultra-flexible table-top robot
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MARKA uses UR3 robots (payload 3kg) to screw drive the caps on its own-brand consumer goods. Accuracy and reliability were the crucial factors for the investment.
Cheese Handling
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Cutting and Handling of Cheese
Automotive
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Automotives - Automation
Programming
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Using the teach pendant for programming, or touch up of previously made offline programs.
Printing
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MOTOMAN dual arm robot in a co‐worker robot cell. The robot separates, airs and moves stacks of printed paper sheets after the printing process.
Labrobot
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The MOTOMAN dual arm robot in a biomedical cell where it performs all the necessary tasks in a laboratory environment.
Cleanfix
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Cleanfix - RA 660 - ANT driven cleaning a floor
ANT driven AGV
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AGV Scandinavia - ANT driven forklift
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