At the Fizyr Automation & Robotics Conference, Dr. Michael Klos from Yaskawa Europe discussed the growing role of intelligent robotics and vision systems in bringing automation to new environments beyond traditional industrial production. He emphasized that technologies once considered pioneering have now reached maturity, enabling practical, scalable deployment in areas that were previously too complex or variable for robots to handle.
According to Klos, the long-term collaboration between Yaskawa and Fizyr has played a key role in advancing high-speed picking and AI-driven robotics. “We have a strong cooperation with Fizyr for many years now. They are leading in intelligent robotics and AI, specifically in high-speed picking. We share many projects and customers in logistics, warehouse automation, and other high-speed applications,” he said. He pointed out that the next wave of automation will increasingly depend on robots capable of hand-eye coordination. “Robotic intuition will take a bigger and bigger portion of robotic installations in general,” he explained. “We need to automate workspaces that require visual feedback and dexterity — the kind of environments where traditional automation hesitated to go, because it’s tricky and risky.”
Thanks to advancements in AI, machine vision, and affordable high-performance cameras, that hesitation is disappearing. “Now we have the technology. We have AI, we have vision, and the price level has come down. Robotics is out of the pioneer phase and entering a mature stage. It’s time to automate those workspaces where we are suffering from labor shortages.”.
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