From June 22 to 25, Automate 2026 took place at McCormick Place in Chicago, bringing together the global robotics and automation community at a record-breaking scale. As one of the industry’s most influential events, this year’s show featured over 1,000 exhibitors and welcomed more than 50,000 visitors from around the world. The exhibition covered key areas of automation, including robotics, machine vision, and motion control, while dedicated zones and expert forums also highlighted emerging technologies such as humanoid robotics and physical AI.
The Mech-Mind booth (Booth 621) drew strong interest from visitors.
As a global leader in embodied AI and 3D vision, Mech-Mind made its fourth consecutive appearance at Automate. Mech-Mind showcased its latest advances in the general-purpose “Eye + Brain” for real-world applications across industries including automotive, logistics, retail, and consumer electronics. Within more than 10 live demonstrations, Mech-Mind presented its latest product innovations and technological breakthroughs in complex scenarios such as generalized picking of transparent objects, precise machine-tending of sheet metal parts, and dynamic part tracking & picking on conveyor. A key highlight included the newly introduced Mech-Station InstaPick robotic station for loading and unloading, as well as the Mech-Station InstaDepal robotic station for depalletizing and palletizing. With its evolving product portfolio and proven application expertise, Mech-Mind attracted strong interest from visitors worldwide.
01 Mech-Station: Production-Ready Embodied AI Robotic Stations Deliver Autonomous Material Handling
Mech-Station InstaPick: Robotic Station for Loading and Unloading
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Mech-Station InstaPick, Mech-Mind’s brand-new production-ready robotic station, delivers advanced capabilities for multi-SKU loading and unloading in industrial automation. It integrates perception, planning, and motion control to enable adaptive operation in dynamic environments, supporting flexible item-level workflows. Its compact footprint maximizes space efficiency and ROI. With a no-code interface and plug-and-play deployment, the robotic station enables rapid setup without requiring robotics expertise or programming knowledge, and is ready for production use from day one. Mech-Station InstaPick can be widely applied across industries such as metal & machining and automotive.
Mech-Station InstaDepal: Robotic Station for Depalletizing and Palletizing
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Mech-Station InstaDepal, Mech-Mind’s brand-new production-ready robotic station, is designed for high-efficiency mixed-SKU depalletizing and palletizing in industrial automation. It handles boxes, bags, and parcels without per-SKU pre-registration, while generating stable, space-efficient stacking patterns for flexible material flow. Its compact 1.8 m² footprint and mobile base support flexible deployment across dynamic production environments. With a no-code interface and plug-and-play deployment, the robotic station enables rapid setup without requiring robotics expertise or programming knowledge, and is ready for production use from day one. Mech-Station InstaDepal can be widely deployed across industries such as logistics and food & beverage.
02 General-Purpose “Eye + Brain” Continues to Evolve, Tackling Complex Real-World Scenarios
Generalized Picking of Transparent Objects
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General-Purpose “Eye + Brain” enables reliable recognition and handling of transparent and translucent objects in complex scenarios. Powered by self-developed AI imaging algorithms and an AI “Brain” trained on massive real-world data, the system accurately identifies and picks common items such as transparent packaged goods, plastic storage boxes, and plastic bottles. With intelligent collision detection and path planning, it ensures stable picking and loading of randomly placed or densely stacked objects.
Mech-Mind’s brand-new flagship product, the Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL high-resolution, high-speed industrial 3D camera, features a dedicated transparent object imaging mode that effectively handles optical interference from highly transparent materials, including multipath refraction and multiple reflections. The Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL significantly improves imaging quality for transparent and translucent objects, helping address automation challenges in retail, healthcare, and more applications.
Dynamic Part Tracking & Picking on Conveyor
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Powered by general-purpose “Eye + Brain”, the robot addresses key challenges in dynamic conveyor scenarios, including part vibration, random poses, and inconsistent spacing. The system reliably captures 3D data of moving objects, enabling precise tracking, localization, picking, and loading. It adapts to different conveyor layouts and cycle times, ensuring continuous and efficient material flow across production lines.
The Mech-Eye Range XL-GL, Mech-Mind’s upcoming flagship industrial 3D camera, supports ultra-long-range imaging at 2–5 meters with enhanced imaging stability in dynamic environments. It further extends the capabilities of the general-purpose “Eye + Brain” system for demanding industrial applications such as automotive part handling and logistics parcel sorting.
Precise Machine Tending of Sheet Metal Parts from a Deep Bin
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Mech-Mind’s general-purpose “Eye + Brain” delivers strong performance in complex loading scenarios, including thin-walled parts, deep bins, and randomly stacked materials. It enables robots to accurately detect reflective and irregular sheet metal parts from long distances, while autonomously planning collision-free grasping paths for precise deep-bin loading. With accuracy, cycle time, and bin clearance rate meeting production requirements, the solution has already been deployed at scale in the automotive industry.
The Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL industrial 3D camera features dedicated hardware upgrades and algorithm optimizations for thin-walled parts. With enhanced AI imaging capabilities, it delivers robust imaging of thin-walled workpieces at the 1 mm level while clearly capturing fine contour details. At Automate 2026, Mech-Mind demonstrated the camera’s strong imaging performance on black, irregular, and ultra-thin (<1 mm) metal parts through live demonstrations.
Point cloud generated by the Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL
High-Precision Automotive Part Loading on Hanging Racks
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The unit adopts a collaborative 2D + 3D vision-based “Eye + Brain” system to meet the high-precision requirements of hanging rack loading for automotive sheet metal parts such as control arms. The 3D vision system provides high-quality part data and grasping guidance based on advanced imaging algorithms, while the Mech-Eye AIC-LITE 2D smart camera performs secondary localization, achieving a positioning accuracy of up to ±0.5 mm.
In the rack loading process, the Mech-Eye NANO ULTRA-GL delivers sub-millimeter accuracy in a compact design, moving flexibly with the robot to capture close-up images of rack hooks. This enables precise detection of hook positions for high-precision rack loading. Powered by advanced AI algorithms, the system handles challenges such as slight hood deformation, pose variations, and different rack types. It ensures stable and accurate placement of workpieces, improving loading stability and flexibility in complex tooling scenarios while reducing the cost for customized fixtures.
The Mech-Eye 2D Smart Camera AIC-Lite Series is designed to work seamlessly with 3D vision systems, enabling fast deployment of flexible and easy-to-integrate 2D + 3D vision solutions. The series can be widely used in applications such as precision pose correction, OCR / code recognition, and error-proofing check, covering industries including automotive, food packaging, pharmaceuticals, and consumer electronics.
High-Speed Picking of Small Bolts
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Powered by general-purpose “Eye + Brain”, the robot identifies black and reflective bolts, while intelligently planning grasping and placement paths for color-based sorting into trays. With precise motion control, it calculates grasping angles in real time to ensure stable and precise handling, preventing collisions and dropped parts. The system delivers high-speed picking with a cycle time of up to 1.7 seconds per part, meeting the demands of fast-paced production lines. It has been widely used for small-part picking, loading, and sorting across industries such as automotive, machinery, and home appliances.
03 General-purpose “Eye + Brain” Enables Scalable Industrial Quality Control
Electronic Control Unit (ECU) Glue Bead Inspection
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With the Mech-Eye LNX-8080-GL 3D Laser Profiler and the Mech-MSR 3D Measurement and Inspection Software, the “Eye + Brain” system accurately recognizes transparent and translucent glue beads, measuring bead width, height, and position with high speed and precision. It simultaneously detects defects such as broken glue beads, overflow, and air bubbles. The solution supports a wide range of high-precision glue bead inspection applications across automotive, electronics, EV batteries, and consumer electronics.
CAD Compare
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With the Mech-Eye LNX-7580-GL 3D Laser Profiler and the Mech-MSR 3D Measurement and Inspection Software, the general-purpose “Eye + Brain” provides high-precision 3D data at high speed, simultaneously analyzing the fused 3D data through full-scale comparison with the standard CAD model to ensure accurate deviation analysis.
The Mech-Eye LNX-7580-GL 3D Laser Profiler supports single-frame HDR—capturing high-quality 3D point cloud data of workpieces with dark and reflective surfaces at a single scan. The dual-camera system meets the demands for workpieces requiring a larger FOV. The Mech-MSR is equipped with AI tools supporting CAD deviation analysis and enables one-click comparison between input images and CAD models. It intuitively presents even the smallest deviations, delivering highly efficient end-to-end inspection. The system can be further applied to 3D inspection for a broader range of high-precision components.
Tire DOT Code Reading
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With the Mech-Eye LNX-75300-GL 3D Laser Profiler supporting a wide X-axis and Z-axis inspection range, the system provides high-resolution imaging of large tires with black, light-absorbing surfaces and complex tread patterns in a single scan. Mech-Mind’s self-developed deep learning algorithms accurately recognize tire surface characters under challenging conditions such as complex fonts, variable positioning, and background interference. With a recognition accuracy of ≥99.9%, the system enables reliable code reading and quality traceability in tire production. It has already been deployed at scale in production lines, supporting high-quality automated tire manufacturing.
Mech-Mind is committed to its strategies of productization, globalization, and ecosystem development. It has established a comprehensive local service network across Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, providing full-cycle support covering products, sales, delivery, and after-sales services. With strong product performance and comprehensive services, more than 27,000 Mech-Mind embodied intelligence “Eye + Brain” systems have been deployed worldwide, earning broad trust from system integrators and end users.
Looking ahead, Mech-Mind will continue to deepen its expertise in embodied intelligence, accelerate the evolution of its full-stack robot “Eye-Brain-Hand” technologies, and work with global partners to develop more high-value intelligent applications.
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