automation fate acquired by omron founded 1983 1983 number of locations pleasanton california united states key people john d. dulchinos revenue us 14.3 million 4q 2014 1 operating income us 520 000 4q 2014 1 net income us 410 000 4q 2014 1 total assets us 29.609 million 4q 2014 1 total equity us 20.167 million 4q 2014 1 number of employees 158 2 website www.adept.com adept technology inc. is a multinational corporation with headquarters in pleasanton california san francisco bay area . the company focuses on industrial automation and robotics including software and vision guidance . adept has offices throughout the united states as well as in dortmund germany paris france and singapore . adept was acquired by omron in october 2015 . 3 contents 1 company history 2 robots 3 software & vision 4 hardware and software history 5 controls 6 references 7 external links company history edit adept was founded in 1983 and was formerly the west coast division of unimation which became part of westinghouse after being a division of consolidated diesel electronic condec for many years . however its roots go back almost 10 years earlier when company founders bruce shimano and brian carlisle both stanford graduate students started to work with victor scheinman at stanford s ai lab . in 2000 adept technology acquired pensar tucson inc. 4 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 . robots edit in 1984 the company introduced its first product the adeptone scara robot . the simplicity of the mechanism based on direct drive motors made adeptone robots very robust in continuous industrial automation applications while maintaining high accuracy . adeptone robots continue to be in use worldwide in 2009 . around 2004 adept introduced table top scara robots called the adept cobra i600 i800 with the system and servo controls and the power amplifiers embedded in the base of the robot . the related adept cobra s600 s800 models employ an external controller with the servo controls and amplifiers still in the robot base to achieve greater system functionality . these robots are claimed to be the fastest robots in their class . in 2006 adept released its new delta 4 robot the adept quattro . it is based on a new concept of delta style robot mechanism that has four arms versus the traditional three arm design . the rotation is achieved through a parallel platform . adept also offers adept python linear module robots with one to four axes in various configurations and six axis adept viper articulated robots . software & vision edit this section is empty . you can help by adding to it . june 2014 hardware and software history edit adept has its own robot control operating system v which has come to version 17.x by 2009 . the history of v dates back to the days of unimation . at the time it was called val victor s assembly language which evolved into val ii and val iii later . after the formation of adept the rights to parts of the os were granted to adept . citation needed . the adept os at that time was called v and it ran on the refrigerator sized controllers that were based on the multibus technology . around 1986 the adept mc controller was introduced ; while still based on the multibus it was smaller than the original controller . after the adept mc controller around 1990 came the adept mv controller which was based on the vme backplane technology . then around 2000 the smartcontroller cs cx controllers were introduced which are current production as of 2009 . along with the changes of the controller itself the servo controls also saw major improvements over the years . around 200x with the v version reaching ver . 14 the servo amplifier and controls were part of the robot and hence separated from the main robot controller itself . this is when distributed controls were introduced by the company . the idea of having the amplifier and servo controls in the base of the robot was named aib amplifier in base . adept still follows the aib mantra and has an aib in the latest robot adept quattro reducing the footprint of the robot manipulator controller system . controls edit the adept core business continues to be motion control . its smartcontroller cx integrates motion controller vision guidance and interfaces to factory networks . references edit a b c d e adept technology reports fiscal year 2014 fourth quarter and full year results . retrieved 2014 08 25 . company profile for adept technology inc adep . retrieved 2008 10 20 . omron completes acquisition of adept technology addition of leading provider of intelligent robots to strengthen industrial automation business news releases omron global . www.omron.com . retrieved 2016 08 19 . adept technology completes acquisition of pensar tucson . may 4 2000 . retrieved jul 11 2013 . external links edit official website carnegie mellon hall of fame learn about robots industrial robots references abb fanuc denso epson robots kuka retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adept technology & oldid 735364566 categories robotics companiescompanies established in 1983companies based in californiaindustrial roboticscompanies formerly listed on nasdaq1983 establishments in californiacompanies based in pleasanton californiahidden categories articles to be expanded from june 2014all articles to be expandedarticles with empty sections from june 2014all articles with empty sectionsarticles using small message boxesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 20 august 2016 at 06 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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