Adept Technology opens East Coast robotic automation application center

Adept Technology Inc. has opened its East Coast application and demo center within its Amherst, N.H., facility. The demonstration center allows visitors to prove out advanced robotic packaging, handling, dispensing, or assembling applications in real time using the company's robots and vision guidance and conveyor controls. All of the company's mobile robot models are available for testing both commercial and research applications.

The 5,000-sq.-ft. facility, which has all the capabilities of the company's other technical centers, is staffed by engineers with expertise in flexible manufacturing and primary and secondary food packaging. They can provide design, programming, testing, and training for the company's kinematics, including Cobra SCARA, Viper 6-axis, Python linear modules, and Quattro parallel model, as well as flexible feeding systems, including the Anyfeeder and Flexibowl.