Designers of manufacturing equipment are under constant pressure to improve productivity and increase efficiency. These improvements can be accomplished using emerging technologies for industrial robotics such as real-time 3D video capture, computer vision (CV), and deep learning. But such technologies require performance and connectivity not typically found in factory environments. In addition, they must be reliable and compact.

In this article, robotics engineers will learn:

• How emerging technologies like CV and real-time 3D video capture can help improve productivity and efficiency in robotics applications
• What these technologies demand of hardware
• How one OEM implemented a workstation-grade computing solution for an industrial robotics client