NEVER Next-gEn Vision guidEd Robot

Innovative low-cost vision-guided robot

   

Characteristics

NEVER project aims at creating an innovative low-cost vision-guided robot to minimize the complexity of the system and enable innovative automation tasks in new production processes. Robot guidance, in industrial automation, means the procedure by which a vision system can locate an object in space by providing position coordinates to the robot and correcting its path, programmed during its installation and calibration.
This system adapts to variations in object or robot positions on production lines, enabling efficient picking and placing. The NEVER project addresses industrial challenges in robot guidance for dismantling and disassembling battery modules, automotive parts, and more, where current technologies fall short.

Result to be enhanced

3D vision guided robotic system

Why is it important?

NEVER wants to face the industrial challenge of realizing a robot guidance for the application areas for which the existing technologies are unable to provide consolidated low-cost solutions. More efficient and flexible robot-guidance solutions like the one addressed by NEVER project help improving the process efficiency and sustainability, reducing the number of scraps and reworks, optimizing the cycle time and the raw material use cutting down CO2 emissions and, eventually making the production processes more resilient and sustainable.