It takes knowledge and skill to get a robot to do exactly what you want it to do in a manufacturing environment--and those are hard to come by in this skills-gap era. A new interface designed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers is simpler and more efficient than most interfaces, and doesn't require significant training time. The user simply points and clicks on an item, then chooses a grasp. The robot does the rest of the work.
Imported from the CTE archive to seed discussion on MFGAxis.
Originally published on CTE: 2017-04-29
CTE source: https://ctemag.com/news/point-and-click-interface-simplifies-robot-control/
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