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Roboception at ERF 2023 in Odense

Some traditions should be preserved: Roboception has been involved with euRobotics‘s European Robotics Forum since the companies’ foundation in 2015. This year’s European Robotics Forum was hosted in Odense and our CEO Dr. Michael Suppa was given the opportunity to contribute in various ways – starting with our own workshop ‘Good Data in Agile Production, Logistics and Lab Automation’, which was an extremely fruitful and rewarding experience.With over 70 perception enthusiasts in the room, we were able to discuss multiple aspects of how the robotics industry can best make use of the latest innovations, e.g. in 3D vision and AI, in order to further move towards agile production and logistics environments. These discussions provided a significant amount of insight and food for thought that will surely help all of us when preparing the next steps in making robots both safe and flexible workplace companions. Michael also presented at two more workshops in Odense: ‘Scaling Robotics in European Manufacturing’ and ‘Hybrid Production Systems Pt. 2’. A big thank you goes to all the workshop participants as well as our fellow organizers and hosts: Prof. Markus Vincze | Technical Unversity Vienna, Austria Radhika Gudipati | Ocado Technology, UK Dr. Patrick Courtney | tec-connection, UK Silvia Grätz | EIT Manufacturing, Germany Sotiris Makris | LMS, University of Patras, Greece

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Roboception’s Role in ODIN Project

Robotic perception of the environment, processes and humans plays an essential role within the ODIN project (Open-Digital-Industrial and Networking pilot lines using modular components for scalable production). As part of the project, three pilot lines in three different industries (automotive, aeronautic, and white goods) have to be developed. The perception capabilities are important for the execution of the relevant tasks as well as for ensuring the safety of the HRC (human-robot-collaboration) environments. Required perception skills include: - Object detection and pose estimation based on CAD models - Quality checks - Perception for screwing while moving operations - Object inspection of aeronautics mechanical assemblies - Human body and human motion detection - Human detection and object localization Roboception’s role in ODIN is to design and prototypically implement the required perception skills in each pilot line. Recently, our CEO Dr. Michael Suppa has presented the advantages of 3D stereo vision in industrial applications and how it is implemented in the ODIN project. To learn more, please download his PPT slides from TeknoHub's webinar about „Utilisation of Machine Vision in Robotics Applications“ on March 20^th, 2023.

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Roboception Vision Solutions Now Part of the Franka Ecosystem

Great news for 2023:  Franka Production 3 and Franka Research 3 robots can now be enhanced by Roboception’s ‘Eyes and Brains for Robots’. Roboception's vision solutions are part of the Franka ecosystem. Highly efficient pick-and-place applications, machine tending, bin picking or (de)palletizing have just become that much easier for your most recent Franka robots. For the quick and easy integration of Roboception‘s rc_visard 3D stereo sensor and innovative rc_reason software modules, Franka provides easy-to-use apps for the Desk software. rc_visard owners that want to use a Franka robot of the latest generation can simply purchase the license for the Roboception Apps and download them via the Franka World. We recommend to also update the rc_visard with the latest firmware. If you do not have an rc_visard yet, just contact us via sales@roboception.de. Watch Franka's video about the cooperation:

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