25/9/2015 World news

Specialists of the of machinery and moulding technologies Institute Fraunhofer IWU (Germany) have been attempting to automate the process of engine assembly which is still hand assembled despite the active robotization of car industry and requires the specialists to possess the highest qualification.

25/9/2015 World news
Industrial robotic engine assembler is supposed to define the conformity of component parts to the standards by the means of cameras and a set of sensors and operate on them according to the “ideal” assembly pattern.

The project will be finished in 2016 which will lead to commercializing of the prototype.

Based on materials of phys.org

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