Popular FAQs for Bin Picking
Q1: What is bin picking?
Bin picking is the name of the technique that is being used by a robot to grab objects that are randomly placed inside a bin/box. Bin picking is common to see in loading / unloading objects scenarios.
Q2: How does an industrial 3D camera ease the bin picking process?
Picking parts, raw materials, or SKUs from a deep bin requires robots to work with high accuracy, stability, and flexibility. While accuracy is one of the core enablers of stable picking, it's also where industrial 3D cameras come to help. To be precise, industrial 3D cameras are the 'eyes' of robots. Robots equipped with the industrial 3D camera are able to capture and collect 3D data of target objects (x, y, and z-axis of objects). These 3D data will be processed into depth information (position, orientation, and location) to guide robots to pick objects accurately, quickly, and stably.
Q3: What are the typical applications for bin picking?
Machine tending (loading), palletizing (mixed palletizing) & depalletizing, assembly, automated piece picking, etc., are all the typical applications for bin picking. Industrial operations involving picking objects from a box / a bin (during processing, production, delivery, etc.) are all the applications of bin picking.