The Future Is Now!未來是現在！
If you have kids, you’ve probably seen trailers for the new Disney-Pixar animated film WALL-E.如果您有孩子，您大概也看到拖車為新的迪斯尼-皮克斯動畫電影牆娥。 Robots like WALL-E and his cohorts represent the wave of the future in material handling, though let’s hope they get the kinks worked out before they start installation.機器人一樣，牆E和他的隊列，代表未來的潮流，在材料處理，雖然讓我們希望他們得到的缺陷工作前，他們開始安裝。 Can you imagine the chaos if a bunch of inept robots was allowed to run amuck on your plant floor?你能想像的混亂，如果一群無能的機器人被允許運行amuck在您的車間？ Life, after all, is not a movie.生活，畢竟， 並不是一個電影。 The hero almost never arrives to save the day in the final seconds of a plant emergency!英雄幾乎從未抵達拯救天，在最後一秒鐘的植物緊急！
Robot prototypes that allow us to glimpse and plan for the future of material handling are already on the market.機器人原型，使我們能夠一瞥，並計劃為未來的物料搬運已經在市場上。 British tech firm RTS Flexible Solutions has introduced a 3-D vision-based robot automation system that can grip complex shapes and profiles, pick at variable heights and even perform some inspection and defect rejection actions.英國高科技公司的RTS靈活的解決方案，推出了的3 D基於視覺的機器人自動化系統，可以掌握複雜的形狀和概況，針對可變的高度，甚至執行一些檢查和缺陷排斥反應的行動。
“Advances in technology mean we can deliver applications which have been difficult for conventional 2D technology,” commented RTS managing director David Bradford. “科技的進步意味著我們能夠提供申請已難以常規的二維技術， ”評論垃圾轉運站董事總經理大衛布拉德福德。 While 2D vision-guided robotic automaton works on grayscale, color or line-scanning vision systems, the new 3D system can process on X, Y and Z coordinates.而二維視覺引導機器人自動機工程，灰階，彩色或線掃描視覺系統，新的三維系統的過程中可以對x ， y和z坐標。 For the first time this allows a robotic application to accurately gauge height, depth and surface contours, opening new possibilities for material management.為第一時間，這使機器人的應用，準確地衡量的高度，深度和表面輪廓，開放的新的可能性，物資管理。
It will be a while before robotic applications can effectively perform many material handling functions, but that day can already be glimpsed on the horizon.這將是一個，而之前，機器人的應用可以有效地執行許多材料的處理功能，但是那一天已經可以glimpsed在地平線上。 Computer software and management skills are more apt to define material handling workers of the future.計算機軟件和管理技能，更容易界定的材料處理工人的未來。 It’s going to be a whole new ball game!這將是一個全新的球賽！
