Tag: Machine Learning

Automated Robots Can Help Plants Grow

Automated Robots move potted plants.
The HV-100 “Harvey,” specifically designed for moving and spacing plants.

There are many examples of how tech has changed agriculture to improve efficiency. Investment in specialized technology for “doing one thing better” is increasing. More specialized business models have cropped up. With these, specialized skills and equipment supporting IoT wireless data transfer are increasingly important.

More and more, ag businesses have turned to AI, machine learning, and robots for certain necessary tasks.  Automated robots use specialization to become proficient at one particular job.   One example of this is Harvest Automation’s container-moving robot.  Weighing in at just about one hundred pounds, the not-quite two-foot-tall robot works in greenhouse and nursery environments to properly space out container plants.

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Machine Vision is Improving Manufacturing Robotics

Machine vision can create a faster, more flexible throughput on your factory floor.

Why consider Insight 2000 Cognex or the Insight 8000 Cognex camera?

As sophisticated technologies are introduced into the manufacturing landscape, those who want to include robotics as part of their production line are looking for ways to increase the machine’s functionality, flexibility, and efficiency.  This often means manufacturers are adding machine vision capability to their robotics to meet these goals.  Cognex cameras are ideally designed for use as vision sensors.

Insight Cognex 2000 is ideal for use as a vision sensor.
The InSight Cognex 2000 camera

How machine vision works

For most of their existence, robotics have used sensors, PLCs, and coding to create their movements.  But despite what we may have inferred from pop culture references in movies like Terminator or from cartoons, older robots have difficulty picking up and moving small parts, especially parts lacking similarities on all sides, like a screw with a tapering shank connected to a rounded head….or Princess Twilight Sparkle parts.

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