Web sites
Article Type: Web sites From: Assembly Automation, Volume 29, Issue 1
Braintech
This is the corporate web site for Braintech, a company that designs,develops, and deploys software and peripherals for vision-guided robotics (VGR)systems. Braintech has recently developed RBP™, random bin picking, the first VGR technology to overcome the challenges of automating systems to locate and move parts randomly placed, and jumbled in generic bins.
Their state-of-the-art web site contains a wealth of information on the company’s markets, products, and applications, and includes downloadable brochures, high-res images, and videos. There is a detailed news section featuring press releases, events, news, and a company blog, which site visitors can subscribe to.
BlueWrist Inc.
BlueWrist is a Canadian company that offers a variety of automation solutions in the areas of bin picking, robot guidance, and industrial system communication. The web site highlights their three solutions and provides information on the company and its partners. The site offers an online support portal for customers. The web site is brief yet delivers a concise and user-friendly intro to the company and its products.
Flexible Gripper
Flexible Gripper is a web site by S. Synnelius Engineering AB describing their various patented flexible grippers. The web site is limited but offers excellent photos and details showing the flexibility of their different sized and shaped innovative grippers used for material handling.
Robotics and Automation Manufacturing Laboratory, McMaster University
This web site is part of the featured research being done by the Robotics and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory at McMaster University in Canada. They have developed three patented robotic servo grippers for several industries,including automotive, aircraft, camera, and photocopier manufacturing. This single web page contains links to videos, publications, and details on the application of their grippers for automotive assembly.
Schunk
This is the corporate web site for Schunk, worldwide specialists in toolingholding components, gripping systems, linear systems, workholding solutions, and automation components.
To enter the web site, the site visitor first clicks on the country he is located in (Schunk operates in more than 50 countries), and chooses one of five language preferences. From there, the user is brought to a gateway of Schunk’s products and services which feature extensive product detail and specifications including free cad files, product search, online catalogs, and hundreds of pages of PDFs of specifications for each product.
The site also offers news, company information, trade shows, and a topic of the month.
