This is a copy of the presentation our co-founder, Prof. Ilian Bonev, gave at Automate 2023. This talk aims to explain the importance of mastering robot singularities and 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, it has hardly helped implement industrial robots more than a decade ago.