K-Box This production-ready visual inspection controller and optical head from Kitov.ai includes a package of APIs, with Kitov software that includes integrated lighting, and 2D and 3D imaging. The software allows users to implement the hardware on almost any industrial or collaborative robot on the market to perform a variety of inspection applications. Using CAD scans, a robot equipped with the K-Box can inspect parts.
What’s new? The K-Box, introduced earlier this year.
Benefits Cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation. The K-Box allows users to implement visual inspection with the robots they have in house, and makes possible inspection of objects of varying sizes. It can meet a range of speed requirements.
Kitov.ai, Petah-Tikva, Israel, 972-3-373-1355, www.kitov.ai
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
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