Pick-and-place robot

Rodico's (Upper Saddle River, NJ) SNC F4 pick-and-place robot has an integrated vision system that can recognize defective products and eliminate them from the line.

Mar 31, 1997

It can scan up to 4ꯠ discrete products/min placed randomly on a moving belt, and can place/ remove up to 200 items/min. No-tool changeovers can be accomplished in under 15 min, says the company, using the computer.

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