Founded in 1983, Adept Technology, Inc. is a global leader in industrial automation technology. Adept designs, manufactures, and markets automation components for the telecommunications, electronics, automotive, food, consumer products, lab automation, semiconductor and biomedical industries worldwide. Adept has more than 20 years of expertise in a wide range of small parts assembly, material handling and packaging applications. Adept automation components include industrial robots, configurable linear modules, machine vision, and motion control. Adept is the industry-leader in software for machine vision and motion control.

Manufacturing its products in Livermore, California, Adept markets, distributes, and supports its products worldwide both directly and through channel partners. Through these channels, Adept has built an installed base of more than 20,000 automation, robot and controller systems around the world.

Adept believes intelligent automation is key to the success of any medium or high volume discrete manufacturing enterprise. Adept's strategy is to provide a broad range of high reliability, configurable, intelligent robot, controller, vision and software products along with world-class service to allow manufacturer's to maximize the productivity, flexibility and quality of the products they manufacture.

Adept has consistently led the industry in the development of innovative and powerful products for manufacturing and factory automation. We pioneered direct-drive robots, flexible feeding, database-driven applications software, integrated vision and conveyor tracking, digital servo control networks, and other products and technologies critical to the flexible automation industry.

Our industrial robot line includes SCARA robots, six-axis (articulated) robots, and linear modules, designed for a wide variety of applications and manufacturing environments. Adept controllers are designed to take advantage of Adept's SmartAmp technology and SmartServo architecture to create a distributed control system. Our current vision product line includes vision guidance products and options, standalone vision inspection systems, and PC-based machine vision libraries.

Adept's products can be found in a wide variety of manufacturing industries including automotive, consumer electronics, consumer goods, disk drive, clean room, and medical/pharmaceutical. Our applications range from mechanical/electrical assembly, packaging and material handling to dispensing, routing and test/inspection.

• Robot: SCARA robot (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm)
• Vision system for positioning application
• Robot: Linear and gantry robot
• Robot: High speed arm robot
• Robot: Parallel-arm robot
• Software: 3D modelling software
• Software for robotic simulation
• Software for robotics applications
• Robot: 6-axis robot
• Handling: Linear unit
• Controls: Motion controller
• Robot: Articulated arm robot
• Robot: Cartesian robot
• Robot: Vision-guided industrial robot
• Controls: Robot controls
• Vision guidance
• Robot: Pick and place robot