With guest Sean Dotson. With more than 28 years of experience in industrial automation, robotics, and packaging, Dotson, PE is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive who has founded, built, and sold multiple successful businesses in the field. He has course work in a master’s degree in engineering management and a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, as well as multiple patents and publications to his credit.
Learn how technologies such as AI, machine learning, and vision are transforming the use of robotics in packaging, as well as how the greater functionality, ease of use, and flexibility of today’s robots are providing packaging operations with a solution to ongoing labor challenges.
Topics we plan to cover include:
- Labor shortage in packaging – how and where robots helping (and where humans are still necessary)
- AI and machine learning, particularly as relates to vision, optics, sensors, and optical AI; also data collection and activation for packaging design
- Greater functionality: Longer reach, heavier payload, faster speeds, new EoATs and end effectors
- Ease of use, such as low- and no-code programming, simpler HMI, and GUI
- Flexibility: nimble EoATs and end effectors that broaden packaging application ranges
- Blurring lines between cobot and robots: And are packaging robots (even the biggest industrial ones) becoming more collaborative?