Introducing Innovations in Automation at SwRI
Submitted by Paul Evans on Fri, 09/25/2020
Welcome to the new blog we are calling Innovations in Automation. To kick off our first article, we thought it would be fun to discuss our roots in the field of industrial robotics and automation. When Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) first started working with robots, intelligence meant something very different, and just a successful implementation of a pick-and-place operation was reason for celebration. Simple vision systems required computer racks the size of a refrigerator coupled with cameras the size of a toaster.