Give your robots sight: high-precision 2D/3D guidance

This speed of adaptation is decisive in contract packaging, where the variety of products and the frequency of changeovers make conventional reprogramming too costly. By adapting to a new product in around thirty minutes, the Psycle solution makes it possible to handle varied production runs without sacrificing productivity. Flexibility no longer comes at the expense of throughput.

The benefit of masked-time processing is direct: it reduces, or even eliminates, the time the robot would spend waiting for a decision from the vision system. On a timed operation, every second saved per cycle is multiplied across the entire production. It is one of the levers through which Psycle's solutions use AI to reduce robot cycle times, without changing the robot itself.

The difference lies in where the camera is placed. With on-board vision, the module is mounted on the robot arm: it only sees what surrounds the gripper, and you have to wait for the movement to finish before observing anything else — so you depend on the cycle time. With remote vision, the camera is separate from the robot: it observes wherever you want, whenever you want, independently of the movement in progress.

3D bin picking covers two main configurations: picking parts from a bin or a pallet — typical of depalletizing — and picking loose products directly from a conveyor, common in contract packaging. Psycle designs these applications to absorb variations in both the product and its presentation without heavy reprogramming: a new product reference is handled within a few dozen minutes, which makes it a realistic solution for lines with frequent format changes.

In industry, 3D vision is mainly used to guide robots on tasks that 2D cannot handle: picking parts from a bin, depalletizing, or locating a product whose position varies with each cycle. Psycle's applications use this real-time localization so that machines adapt to unpositioned products and variable environments, without jigs or mechanical fixturing.

Beyond localization, vision guidance is mainly about gaining performance and flexibility: a robot that can see is able to handle loose products, absorb variations in position and reduce its cycle times. Psycle's guidance solutions rely on AI so that machines adapt to variable environments with a fluidity close to human movement, where a conventional robot would require perfect positioning.