Zivid wins gold design innovators award for on-arm 3D color camera
OSLO, Norway, May 31th, 2021 – Zivid, the 3D machine vision camera company, has been named a Gold Honoree in the 2021 Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards for its industrial Zivid Two on-arm 3D color camera. Judged by a panel of independent experts from system integrator and end-user companies, this annual awards program recognises the best products in the machine vision and imaging industries.
On receiving the award Zivid CEO Thomas Embla Bonnerud said, “The award is recognition of all the hard work we’ve put into producing a second-generation camera that’s specifically designed to support on-arm robot-guided applications. Customers were telling us that they needed a high definition, fast image capture 3D color camera that was much smaller, lighter and more rugged. Zivid Two successfully ticks all the boxes.”
In the face of rapidly increasing demand for throughput and faster robot cycle times, particularly in the logistics sector, the Zivid Two can capture a typical high-definition scene with more than 2 million individual points in as little as 100 ms. For the integrator this means cycle times of 6 seconds being readily achievable for a broad range of bin-picking, piece-picking and machine-tending duties.
Mark Stevens, Director of Business Development at Capsen Robotics commented, “The Zivid Two 3D camera provides our 3D vision and motion planning software,CapSen PiC with the image resolution and capture time needed to meet cycle time requirements at industry leading speed, also enabling ultra-fine manipulation that is demanded in the most difficult of piece-picking applications. There is really no compromise between the two aspects.”
The important issue of payload limitation has also been addressed by the Zivid 3D camera’s much smaller form factor and lower unit weight. Measuring just 169 x 56 x 122 mm, and weighing in at only 940g, Zivid Two ensures payload, flexibility and maneuverability are maximised for both industrial and collaborative robot arms.
At the same time, to protect calibration accuracy the new 3D camera has also been engineered to tolerate the accelerations, decelerations, emergency stops and knocks of the most arduous of industrial robot cycles. Fully stress tested, the IP65-rated Zivid Two will withstand a 15G impact, 5G sine vibration and an operating temperature range of 0 to 45ºC.
Commenting on the award, Robert Bevec, Head of KoCo Development, Kolektor Digital said, “Our autonomous KoCo robot worker needs the very best in image resolution and image capture time, and Zivid Two has proven itself more than capable. What’s more, the objections there were to on-arm mounting of 3D cameras, it has soundly and single-handedly removed. The innovators award is more than merited.”
To simplify on-arm mounting, Zivid has also introduced a complete range of lightweight accessories for the Zivid Two camera. It comprises a camera bracket and on-arm mounts for known robot brands, a protective cage, a detachable cable guide as well as a choice of data and power cables.
About Zivid
Zivid is a market-leading provider of 3D machine vision cameras and software for next generation collaborative robot (cobot) cells, autonomous industrial robot cells and other industrial automation systems. Its Zivid One+ and Zivid Two products are regarded as the world’s most accurate real-time 3D color cameras and bring human-like vision to the smart factories and warehouses of Industry 4.0.
With more than two decades of in-house R&D and in-depth expertise in optical sensors, 3D machine vision hardware and software, Zivid enables customers to boost efficiency and productivity in a range of applications including random bin picking, pick-and-place, de-palletizing, assembly, packaging and machine-tending.
The Zivid One 3D color camera received numerous awards for its technical features, quality of data (QoD), and design implementation. Awards include "Top Innovation Award" by inVISION Magazine, "Gold Innovators Award" by Vision Systems Design, Red Dot's “Product Design” award, and the Research Council of Norway's prestigious “Innovation Award”.
To discover how Zivid is shaping the future of 3D machine vision visit www.zivid.com.
About the Vision Systems Design 2021 Innovators Awards
The Vision Systems Design 2021 Innovators Awards program reviews and recognized the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry. Criteria used in the Innovators Awards ranking included: originality, innovation; impact on designers, systems integrators and end-users; fulfilling a need in the market that hasn’t been addressed, leveraging a novel technology, and increasing productivity.
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