Assembly automation can be specified with vision systems and force sensing. Vision can guide a robot to pick up a component from a conveyor, reducing or even eliminating the need for precise location, and visual serving lets a robot rotate or translate one piece to make it fit with another.
number of industries, including the meatpacking, artillery, and auto industries, use the assembly line process. The meatpacking industry was already using assembly lines by the 1860s. Workers would stand in stations and operate a pulley system to bring over each animal carcass in turn.
