The EU’s co-funded COMET project, which seeks to improve the efficiency of European industrial manufacturing, is creating a revolutionary solution that enables robots to perform high-end machining. Robots of any brand fitted with the COMET plug-and-produce controller unit successfully respond to manufacturing needs for cost-effective, flexible, and reliable manufacturing solutions.

Nikon Metrology is a main contractor working to develop a tracking system to detect deviations from the programmed robot path. These are used to initiate real-time tool path corrections to maintain the targeted accuracy throughout the entire machining sequence. The proposed COMET solution will be, on average, 30-percent more cost-effective than dedicated machine tools, while delivering absolute positional accuracy at better than 50 microns.

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