Right-clicking will open the Integrated Vision tab of RobotStudio.Ĭonnect the camera to the robot controller service port switch. To access the Integrated Vision tab, expand your robot controller (physical or virtual) in the left-hand controller pane and right-click on the Vision System item. The ABB RobotStudio's 'Integrated Vision' feature is essentially a 'Cognex In-Sight Lite,' and as of publication, this is only functional on the 32-bit version of robot studio. To prove to myself that it could not have been an issue of technological limitations (and to have an excuse to play with a Cognex camera, ABB's RobotStudio, and the Star Wars toys I keep on my desk), I decided to spin up a quick tutorial to show that I could, in fact, locate and retrieve the droid I was looking for. Of all the unanswered questions of the universe, the one that consistently keeps me up at night is this: In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, if recovering the Death Star plans were so vital to the security of the Galactic Empire, why would you send Storm Troopers to do a job that a machine could do just as well, especially if the machine would be immune to Jedi mind tricks?
