Ebara Jitsugyo Engineers multipurpose robot

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(1998), "Ebara Jitsugyo Engineers multipurpose robot", Industrial Robot, Vol. 25 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.1998.04925bab.010

Ebara Jitsugyo Engineers multipurpose robot

Ebara Jitsugyo Engineers multipurpose robot

Ebara Jitsugyo, a marketer of water-treatment equipment, has developed the "Tore vision", a multipurpose robot able to select empty bottles. A varied array of bottles moving along a conveyor belt is pictured on a monitor, a worker merely indicates which item to pick based on this image, and the robot will select that item. The robot can be used not only for bottles but a wide range of discerning applications, such as the selection of cans and PET bottles, as well as to sort out non-burnable items from burnable. "Tore vision" utilises two robots with hourly selection capacity of 2,160 items. A standard system has four selection types. The price is about 50 million yen. The company expects interest from small- and medium-sized independent organisations in areas with populations of about 100,000 people and where fine-tuned garbage separation is a costly task. Sales are likely to reach five units in the first year, but rise to more than ten orders in the following fiscal year.

(Source: BRA)