Guard-free Robotics at the Assembly Technology Expo

Joseph Ogando, Senior Editor -- Design News, September 25, 2008

You don't usually see robots running in the middle of a trade-show floor without some sort of physical guarding to protect the innocent passerby from a robotic beat down. But here at the Assembly Technology Expo, Pilz demonstrated it's "Safety Eye" system, which uses a 3D vision system to create a protective barrier around the robot. When a person enters the system's outer protective zone, the robot slows down. Get closer and enter the inner zone, and the robot stops entirely. No guarding required.

Read more about Pilz's Safety Eye system.

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