Robots Using Machine Vision in Retail Applications by RSIP Vision

Robotic automation can be found in shipment and distribution centers where they perform picking, sorting and packaging activities. These tasks are a natural evolution of automated warehouses – to which robots move in order to store and retrieve items. Identification of objects (aka object recognition) is performed by a machine learning classifier along with OCR recognition of the attached text. Since the objects are not necessarily located and oriented in the optimal way for the robot's cameras – a CNN classifier is used to identify clues of textual and visual features. Mobile robots navigate in a space where other robots are operating, thus requiring real-time update of their environment perception.