This is a copy of the presentation given by our co-founder, Prof. Ilian Bonev, at Automate 2023. This talk aims at explaining the importance of mastering robot singularities and robot configurations (i.e., the solutions of the inverse kinematics). Without a comprehensive understanding of the subject, industrial robot integrators can’t optimize the cycle times of their robot motions or even accomplish certain robot movements.

Artificial intelligence might one day simplify the job of robot integrators, but as of now, the have hardly more help implementing industrial robots than a decade ago.