Adept Technology, Inc., a provider of intelligent robots and autonomous mobile solutions, recently announced that it has received a huge order of Adept Cobra robots from CASTEC International Corp. The reports said that the order is worth $2.6 million.
Adept Cobra SCARA robots will be used in high precision work cells along with motion control, a built-in amplifier and integrated vision to automate the sub assembly of smartphone electronics. Adept Cobra SCARA robots come in sizes from 350mm to 850mm, and feature table-top and inverted configurations, as well as vision guidance options. These robots deliver high footprint efficiency and are part of the industry's only line of self-contained, standalone SCARA robots.
"As smartphone packaging becomes more dense, it is becoming more difficult to assemble by hand. CASTEC and its customer needed to find a way to drastically improve the overall yields of a smartphone component and knew a tightly integrated automation solution could deliver," said Hai Chang, Adept's newly appointed vice president, Asia and Strategic Programs. "Prior to making the decision to automate this process CASTEC's customer was seeing low yield rates using a manual process through another vendor. The vendor contacted them to take on the process using automation to increase the yields and reduce costs."
"We believe that the Adept Cobra family of robots outperform the competitor's robots at high payload ranges and the Adept control platform with the tightly integrated vision technology provides the exact tools our customer needed to maintain high yield rates," said Abel Lo, CEO of CASTEC International Corp., Taiwan, a robot system integrator.
Adept recently announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended March 30, 2013. Revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2013 was $10.9 million, below $17.5 million in revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2012, and slightly above $10.8 million in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2013.
