It is both interesting and exciting to note that for the first time the Materials Handling Industry received some well deserved recognition at this year’s G-20 summit held in Pittsburgh, PA.
Among the standout technologies highlighted during the summit was Seegrid’s www.seegrid.com new class of affordable AGV-like industrial mobile robots. The company’s vision-guided robots automate the movement of product in dynamic warehousing, distribution and manufacturing environments.
Seegrid’s robots can actually sense and interpret their environment based on powerful on-board 3D computer imaging and interpretation software. Using optics and other sensors, the software builds a 3D map of its operating environment and can generate an optimum and flexible “guide path” for the movement of materials from different points in a DC or manufacturing facility with much less restrictive tolerances for making those moves than traditional AGV technology.
Another attention getting advancement noticed by the G-20 participants, is that the Seegrid robots can, in effect, be quickly “taught” by simply “taking them for a walk”, along a desired path, while instructing it on behaviors such as sounding horns and waiting at stop stations.
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