Mitutoyo’s Technology Solutions Group has developed the non-contact quality assurance device. Labeled as ROBOTAG, the solution combines Mitutoyo’s Tunable Acoustic Gradient Index of Refraction Lens (better known as the TAGLENS) with a robot arm and specially developed software for automated defect detection systems. Due to the unification of the lens’ vast depth of focus and the accuracy of the robot arm, demanding inspection tasks can be drastically improved while minimizing the movement of the arm at the same time.

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