What is robot guidance?

Robot guidance systems with 3D vision are about taking robots and automation to a new level of capability. This system is unleashing innovation in areas where robots were previously uncommon: gluing, welding, sanding, and surface finishing are some of the many difficult manipulation tasks robot guidance systems can now perform. It demands more human-like capabilities including highly accurate and flexible, robot-mounted 3D sensing capabilities.

Challenges & Solutions

Typical robot-guided applications replicate skilled human tasks. These tasks often rely on extensive experiential knowledge and sometimes an element of educated intuiti on. Th erefore, they have been hard to emulate and automate. A convergence of complem entary technologies is making demanding skilled tasks using robots and 3D vision a possibility. These technologies include highly adaptive deep learning techniques, sophisticated motion-planning, and the human-like 3D vision capabilities of the robot-mounted Zivid 2+ industrial   3D camera. Read 5 examples of Robot Guidance Applications →

See with confidence

Zivid 2+ M60's outstanding visual performance delivers dense and detailed color point clouds at sub-millimeter level, even with scenes that have a high dynamic range, such as shiny and metallic objects and surfaces. Form and shape are preserved with best-in-class trueness of 99.8% true-to-reality point clouds. 

• 5 MPx resolution
• 240 µm space resolution at focus distance 
• 99.8% trueness (true-to-reality object representation) 
• Rich color point clouds in RGB 

Point cloud example with Zivid 2 - Collection of shiny metallic objects. View in 3D HERE