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In the past 20 years, properly programming an industrial robotic or motion control solution required a well-trained person. During this time, robot and motion control vendors would pop up to brag about how much easier it was to program their products with the addition of setup wizards, the transition to IEC61131, or something else. Although these enhancements have made customers' and support engineers' lives easier, none of them offered an out of the box solution that could be used by someone wi …

This year’s Amazon Robotics competition was designed to find a machine that could identify, pick up and store item. The winners consisted of university students as part of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. The team built their machine without a robot arm, instead opting to do the picking from above using a sliding mechanism and walked away with an $80,000 cash prize."The parts for the robot were cheap by the standards of typical industrial robots and it could be built for unde …