Robotic Tech Talk Articles

Through the Lens

The purpose of the lens is to manage and direct light. To properly select a lens for your vision application, it is important to know the focal length, resolution, field…
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Machine Vision Cameras

The world of digital cameras has been evolving and improving at a record pace. There are machine vision cameras specifically designed for almost any vision process need from high speed…
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Filter for Contrast

Proper robotic vision filter selection further facilitates keying in on specific aspects in the vision application related to contrast. While proper lighting is important, ambient light can cause glare and…
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Machine Vision – See the Light

Lighting can be used in different ways to compliment machine vision applications. The most common application is creating proper contrast for inspection or position locating operations. Lighting is also important…
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MCRI Goes To Ethosource

Motion Controls Robotics is always excited to talk about our efforts in being environmentally responsible. With that being said, Motion Controls recently furnished some of our offices with refurbished Herman…
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How Cold Can My Robot Go

Recently, we had a prospective robotic material handling customer ask us if a FANUC LR Mate could be used as a cold room robot (38 degrees F). This was for…
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