At the Automation and Robotics Conference 2025, hosted by Fizyr, Fredrik Malmgren, CEO of Cognibotics, discussed a clear shift in industrial automation: vision technology is moving from support function to central intelligence. “The vision system used to be just a tool to identify where to pick,” he said. “Today, it’s taking over the whole dexterity — everything that happens in the image.” The Rocking Robots team sat down with him to discuss trends in robot vision.