Adept Technology
| Industry | Robotics, Industrial Automation |
|---|---|
| Fate | Acquired by Omron |
| Founded | 1983 |
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Number of locations
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Pleasanton, California, United States |
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Key people
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Rob Cain (CEO), John D. Dulchinos |
| Revenue |
 US$ 14.3 million (4Q 2014) |
 US$ -520,000 (4Q 2014) |
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US$ -410,000 (4Q 2014) |
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| Total assets |
US$ 29.609 million (4Q 2014) |
| Total equity |
US$ 20.167 million (4Q 2014) |
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Number of employees
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158 |
| Website | www |
Adept Technology, Inc. is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Pleasanton, California (San Francisco Bay Area). The company focuses on industrial automation and robotics, including software and vision guidance. Adept has offices throughout the United States as well as in Dortmund, Germany, Paris, France, and Singapore. Adept was acquired by Omron in October 2015.
Adept was founded in 1983, and was formerly the West Coast Division of Unimation, which became part of Westinghouse after being a division of Consolidated Diesel Electronic (Condec) for many years. However, its roots go back almost 10 years earlier, when company founders Bruce Shimano and Brian Carlisle, both Stanford graduate students, started to work with Victor Scheinman at Stanford's AI lab.
In 2000，Adept Technology acquired Pensar Tucson Inc.
Today, the company is active in a variety of industries requiring high speed, precision part handling including food handling, consumer product and electronics, packaging, medical and lab automation, automotive, as well as emerging markets like solar manufacturing.
In 1984, the company introduced its first product, the AdeptOne SCARA robot. The simplicity of the mechanism, based on direct-drive motors, made AdeptOne robots very robust in continuous industrial automation applications, while maintaining high accuracy. AdeptOne robots continue to be in use worldwide in 2009.
Around 2004, Adept introduced table-top SCARA robots called the Adept Cobra i600/i800, with the system and servo controls, and the power amplifiers, embedded in the base of the robot. The related Adept Cobra s600/s800 models employ an external controller (with the servo controls and amplifiers still in the robot base) to achieve greater system functionality. These robots are claimed to be the fastest robots in their class.
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