From March 4 to March 6, Automation World 2026 (AW 2026) was held at the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul. As one of the largest and most influential exhibitions dedicated to robotics and automation, this year’s event reached new heights in both scale and scope. AW 2026 brought together 500 leading companies from around the world to present cutting-edge technologies across 2,300 exhibition booths. The event featured two special pavilions—AI Factory and Humanoid Robot—showcasing the latest breakthroughs in embodied intelligence and other frontier technologies.
COEX Convention & Exhibition Center
As an industry leader in the embodied intelligence robotics, Mech-Mind has maintained a strong presence at AW for consecutive years. This year, Mech-Mind presented its self-developed, general-purpose “Eye-Brain-Hand” robotics portfolio, unveiled several global product debuts, and showcased these technologies in new application scenarios. Taking center stage on the international platform once again, Mech-Mind presented applications including generalized picking of transparent objects, autonomous goods picking from shelves with a humanoid robot, and Mech-Station InstaDepal robotic station for depalletizing and palletizing through more than 10 demonstration units.
Mech-Mind’s booth at AW 2026
Showcasing its breakthroughs in technology and diverse cutting-edge applications, Mech-Mind drew strong attention from industry professionals and attracted significant interest from prospective partners across multiple industries.
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01 “Eye-Brain-Hand” Continues to Evolve, Unlocking New Frontiers for Applications
•Generalized Picking of Transparent Objects
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This unit marks Mech-Mind’s public debut of its latest breakthrough application—the general-purpose robot “Eye + Brain” handling transparent and translucent objects. Based on the self-developed, high-performance Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL 3D camera and an embodied “Brain” trained by massive real-world data, robots can precisely identify various transparent objects, including packaged goods with transparent wrapping, plastic storage containers, bottles and cans, and perform picking with high stability and accuracy. This effectively addresses the detection and picking bottlenecks of complex transparent and translucent items—including retail goods, medical supplies, and optical components—while meeting the demands of applications such as goods sorting and parcel induction.
The unit marks the global debut of the Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL, Mech-Mind’s newly launched self-developed 3D structured-light industrial camera. Equipped with a dedicated optical module and advanced transparent-object imaging algorithms, the Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL overcomes key vision challenges when imaging highly transparent materials. It delivers reliable imaging for various transparent and translucent objects, significantly enhancing the robot’s visual recognition and handling capabilities.
The Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL will soon be officially launched, further expanding Mech-Mind’s 3D structured-light camera lineup. The Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL will strengthen the capabilities and continuously broaden the application boundaries of the general-purpose robot “Eye-Brain-Hand” technologies.
•Autonomous Goods Picking from Shelves with a Humanoid Robot
With its cutting-edge technology and strong interactivity, this unit attracted crowds of visitors to observe the robot’s precise and smooth picking operations while engaging in interaction. This unit was one of the most popular exhibits from Mech-Mind at AW 2026.
Powered by Mech-Mind’s self-developed general-purpose robot “Eye-Brain-Hand”, the humanoid robot operates fully autonomously throughout the entire workflow—from order intake to real-world goods picking and delivery. The generalization and environmental adaptability of the embodied intelligence “Eye-Brain-Hand” enable the robot to precisely recognize and handle items such as bottles, bags, and boxes, while flexibly operating in densely packed or constrained shelving environments. This solution finds broad applications in supermarkets, retail, research, and exhibition spaces, offering services including greeting, interaction, tour guiding, and sales assistance.
•High-Precision, High-Speed Picking of Transparent Test Tubes
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Powered by Mech-Mind’s self-developed 3D camera and AI software with advanced algorithms, Mech-Mind’s “Eye + Brain” enables robots to recognize highly transparent objects with sub-millimeter accuracy, determine test tube orientation, and achieve stable recognition and positioning of transparent objects. Intelligent grasp planning and precise motion control ensure reliable operation without collisions. The solution addresses grasping and sorting needs for transparent objects commonly encountered in both everyday life and industrial production settings.
•Mech-Station InstaDepal: AI & 3D Vision-Powered Robotic Station for Depalletizing & Palletizing
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This section unveils the global debut of Mech-Station InstaDepal. Purpose-built for modern smart logistics and flexible manufacturing, Mech-Station InstaDepal is an integrated, standardized, fully automated depalletizing and palletizing intelligent robotic station. It combines a high-precision 3D vision system, high-performance industrial robots, and intelligent AI control.
The station flexibly adapts to different materials and pallet structures, supporting random arrivals and new SKUs. The “Plug & Play” design supports fast deployment within just 30 minutes, reducing production line setup time from weeks to minutes. Designed for modular flexibility, the robotic station also supports multiple configurations and add-on modules, allowing fast changeovers and reassembly while maximizing equipment utilization.
Mech-Station InstaDepal can be widely applied across industries such as food, medicine, e-commerce, and logistics, handling depalletizing and palletizing tasks for a variety of materials, including cartons, sacks, totes, and parcels.
02 “Eye + Brain” Collaborates Efficiently, Driving the Scalable Deployment of Embodied Intelligence
•Precise Machine-Tending of Axle Shafts (Deep Bin)
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The high precision and wide FOV enable the Mech-Eye LSR L-GL to accurately capture detailed features of highly reflective axle shafts at long distances. In collaboration with 2D cameras and intelligent inspection software, it can integrate defect inspection directly into the production workflow, detecting end-face defects while picking workpieces. This significantly improves production line efficiency and ensures higher product quality.
Point cloud generated by the Mech-Eye high-precision 3D camera
This unit demonstrates the Mech-Eye high-precision 3D cameras’ exceptional imaging capabilities for reflective rod-shaped metal parts. With self-developed core components and advanced AI anti-reflection algorithms, the Mech-Eye high-precision 3D cameras can also generate highly precise 3D point clouds for a variety of reflective workpieces, including disc-shaped and elongated parts.
•High-Precision Bin Picking of Sheet Metal Parts
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Powered by Mech-Mind’s embodied intelligence “Eye + Brain”, robots can accurately identify randomly stacked small sheet metal parts with complex geometries and dark-colored, highly reflective surfaces. The system’s positioning precision reaches ±0.2 mm, enabling high-speed bin picking. Key performance indicators, including picking accuracy, cycle time, and bin clearance rate, meet the demands of real-world production scenarios. The solution has already been widely deployed worldwide in industries such as automotive and home appliances.
•High-Precision Assembly of Splines
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Powered by the embodied intelligence “Eye + Brain”, robots can autonomously identify and pick external splines with highly reflective surfaces and complex geometries from bins, and perform high-precision positioning of internal splines for rapid and accurate assembly alignment. The dual Mech-Eye industrial camera setup significantly enhances assembly efficiency.
03 “Eye + Brain” Advances Multi-Dimensional AI Quality Inspection
•CAD Compare
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Production interface
With the Mech-Eye LNX-7580-GL 3D Laser Profiler and the Mech-MSR 3D Measurement and Inspection Software, the general-purpose robot “Eye + Brain” can provide high-precision 3D data at high speed. It simultaneously analyzes the fused 3D scan data through full-scale comparison with the standard CAD model of the workpiece. This ensures an accurate deviation analysis.
The Mech-Eye LNX-7580-GL 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 objects 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 workpiece deviations, delivering highly efficient end-to-end inspection.
•Small Motor OCR & Quality Inspection
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The “Eye + Brain” quality inspection system combining the Mech-Eye AIC-Lite GL 2D camera and AI software, including Mech-Vision, achieves highly precise recognition and multi-dimensional quality inspection of surface characters on motors. The inspection covers a full range of checks, including side OCR, top code reading, nut presence detection, precise measurement of intermediate gear center coordinates and hole spacing, ensuring end-to-end product quality assurance.
Production interface
The Mech-Eye AIC-Lite GL 2D camera is Mech-Mind’s newly launched 2D intelligent camera series, specifically designed for 2D+3D collaborative scenarios. It is designed to be used alongside Mech-Eye 3D cameras and can be widely applied in industries such as automotive and consumer electronics for various 2D positioning guidance, error-proofing, and recognition tasks. The Mech-Eye AIC-Lite GL 2D camera is expected to be officially launched later this year.
•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 can intelligently recognize transparent and translucent glue beads, measuring their width, height, and position at high speed and with advanced accuracy. It can simultaneously identify defects such as broken glue beads, glue overflow, or air bubbles.
•Tire DOT Code Reading
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Production interface
With the Mech-Eye LNX-75300-GL 3D Laser Profiler supporting wide X-axis (422 mm) and Z-axis (295 mm) inspection ranges, the system can provide high-resolution imaging of large tires with black, light-absorbing surfaces and complex tread patterns in a single scan. Self-developed deep learning algorithms accurately recognize text on tire surfaces under challenging conditions such as complex fonts, variable positions, and background interference. The system achieves a recognition accuracy of ≥ 99.9%.
•Battery Cell Cap Welding Inspection
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Production interface
Based on advanced AI algorithms, the system can accurately detect a wide range of surface defects, including broken welds, holes, and flanges. It can also measure the height, width, and continuity of weld seams with high precision. This significantly improves inspection quality and efficiency.
Showcase units of Mech-Mind’s partners
Mech-Mind continues to pursue breakthroughs. At AW 2026, Mech-Mind showcased its cutting-edge embodied intelligence “Eye-Brain-Hand” products and applications, demonstrating the company’s deep technical foundation and rapid innovation capabilities across core technologies, including 3D sensing, AI perception, intelligent planning, and robotic control. Mech-Mind further proved the “Eye-Brain-Hand” robotics portfolio’s broad adaptability and capability in real-world industrial deployments.
Mech-Mind unveiled three global product debuts—the Mech-Station InstaDepal robotic station for depalletizing and palletizing, the Mech-Eye ULTRA M-GL 3D camera, and the Mech-Eye AIC-Lite GL 2D camera—expanding its “Eye-Brain-Hand” product portfolio and pushing the boundaries of embodied intelligence applications.
Mech-Mind has consistently pursued a strategy centered on productization, globalization, and ecosystem development. Proven in the industry, the company has established over 10 global business centers, with more than 17,000 cameras deployed in over 40 countries and regions across various industry scenarios. In South Korea, Mech-Mind has built a robust localized service infrastructure, backed by the trust and recognition of leading partners and a broad customer base. Looking to the future, Mech-Mind will continue its global expansion, collaborating with partners worldwide to unlock new possibilities in embodied intelligence.
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