[5][6] Today, the company is active in a variety of industries requiring high speed, precision part handling including food handling, consumer product and electronics, packaging, medical and lab automation, automotive, as well as emerging markets like solar manufacturing.

It is based on a new concept (invented by French and Spanish researchers and described in the European patent EP 1 870 214 B1 [1]) of delta-style robot mechanism that has four arms versus the traditional three-arm design.

[citation needed] In 2010, Adept purchased MobileRobots Inc, maker of autonomous platforms and guidance software for research and industrial applications.

[9] Scott Roth of the West Coast Division of Unimation implemented an interface to the Machine Intelligence Corporation (MIC) vision system VS-100 in early 1981.

It provided machine guidance with robot-vision calibration and supported online gauging and assembly verification.

Provided functionality included rulers (line and arc), windows (rectangular, round, annulus, and pie-shaped regions of interest), feature finders (line and arc fitters), normalized grayscale correlation, blob analysis, processing tools (gradient or Sobel edge detection, thresholding, morphology, image subtraction, histogram, frame copy, pan & zoom, and convolutions), and feature-based recognition.

[12] The “ruler” created by Fred Andresen is an important metrology tool that locates edges along a line or arc with sub-pixel accuracy.

The linear version operates in any orientation and is the basis of the line and arc fitters, providing high accuracy in grayscale images.

The Adept OS at that time was called V, and it ran on the refrigerator-sized controllers that were based on the MultiBus technology.

Its SmartController CX integrates motion controller, vision guidance, and interfaces to factory networks.