While robots have learned some pretty cool moves in food processing applications (as FE covered last November), robots in picking, packing and palletizing applications have performed some new feats—thanks to clever system integrators who have given them sensitive touch, better grips and keen vision. And in some applications, robots now work safely with people in the palletizing area—not needing to be cordoned off by guarding fences.
We look at a few applications that demonstrate these tasks.