The decision to incorporate robots or vision-enabled systems into your manufacturing process is a significant one for most companies, particularly smaller ones looking to take advantage of the productivity benefits that are promised. Traditionally, deploying robotics has been a time-consuming and costly endeavor, making them largely available only to larger companies with the capital, skills, and scale to justify the investment, leaving many smaller companies on the sidelines.
Advances in robot technology has been steadily lowering barriers for years – they have become easier to program, more mobile, and more cost-effective and this has resulted in continuous growth in deployment numbers as well as in the number and types of applications they serve.