PRISM Video: Mixed Reality takes robot operation to the next level of ease of use

For KUKA Robotics Ireland, Mixed Reality takes robot operation to the next level of ease of use. That’s according to Managing Director Brian Cooney, who highlighted its use in creating virtual zones for human safety around robot cells, when he spoke at PRISM.

"We can build all these virtual safety zones around it. And then we can export that into the mixed reality and we can take it on our handheld devices and walk around the shop floor where we're going to be putting this robot cell. In this case, it's a virtual robot cell until we get the approvals on it, but we can check out all the various different safety elements around that."

Then, referring specifically to KUKA’s use of Virtual Reality Brian said, “If you're walking around the factory in the real world you can see where all the problems exist. If you've already designed it digitally and you can export to VR, you can now walk around your factory before it gets delivered. You can see exactly where problems might might uh crop up or might already exist. You can check it for the ergonomics of the machinery that you're building and designing. And you can use it as a tool because a lot of these lines take a year, two, three years to actually deliver. So you can use it as a training tool for your staff”

Watch the full recording of Brian's excellent presentation below.