Choose.
Pick one station where someone does the same task all shift. We look at it with you and say plainly whether it suits.
Automation
For the work still
done by hand.
Most factories have automated what was easy to automate. What remains are the stations where people do the same task all shift, with parts and products that vary just enough to defeat a fixed program.
Why these stations stay manual.
A conventional robot cell repeats the exact motions it was programmed with. That works when every part arrives in the same place, every time. On most lines it doesn’t: parts come loose in a tote, packaging changes with the order, the product changes every few weeks.
Making a fixed cell cope means custom fixtures, feeders and reprogramming, and for a single station the numbers rarely work. So a person stays on it. Not because the task is hard to learn, but because it is hard to write down as a program.
What learning changes.
Our robots learn a task from demonstration. One of your operators shows the robot how the job is done, and it learns to handle the variation it sees in those demonstrations, rather than repeat a fixed path.
When something changes, nobody rewrites code. The operator shows it again. That is what makes a single station, or a short run, worth automating.
How it fits in
Start with one station.
Then the next.
The robot is placed at a station that already exists and learns the job there, so the rest of the line keeps running as it is.
Place.
The robot goes where the person works now, at the same bench or line, with the same bins and tools.
Teach.
The operator who does the job shows the robot how, by demonstration. Nothing is programmed.
Run.
The robot works the station, shift after shift. When it hesitates, someone steps in, and that goes back into training.
Questions we usually hear
- Do we have to change the line?
- No. The robot works at an existing station with the parts, bins and tools already there. Like any robot, it needs a safe working area, which we plan with you.
- What happens when the product changes?
- Your operator records new demonstrations and the behaviour is retrained. The robot and the station stay as they are.
- Who runs it day to day?
- Your own people. Teaching is done with a VR controller, and training and deployment happen in Robot Learning Studio, without code.
- What if it gets something wrong?
- Someone takes over with the controller and finishes the task. That correction becomes training data, so the same situation is handled better next time.
The next behaviour starts with you
Which station would you automate first?
Bring a task, a robot, or a challenge.
Let’s explore what learning can unlock.