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Braintech Releases Random Bin Picking™ Software.
New Technology is Integrated Into eVisionFactory™ Release 5.1
February 18, 2008

Braintech, Inc. (OTCBB: BRHI) has developed and integrated Random Bin Picking(TM) (RBP(TM)), the much sought after "Holy Grail" of Vision Guided Robotic technology (VGR), into its latest release of eVisionFactory (eVF(TM) version 5.1), a software platform and vision library for the development of VGR applications with greater efficiency and scalability than custom programming.

Braintech's Random Bin Picking uses the Company's unique VGR technology to locate and grasp randomly situated materials from generic bins, allowing them to be moved through assembly and manufacturing lines without high annual costs associated with manual labor, dedicated sorting machines, custom bins and trays. Braintech's technology solves the bin-picking problem in a highly unstructured environment where parts are completely jumbled within a bin and are under various degrees of occlusion.

"We believe this is a major advancement," Braintech Chief Executive Officer Rick Weidinger said. "Our team has made Random Bin Picking a priority in the last several months and they have done a tremendous job solving the problem of handling components which arrive at facilities in containers, including those jumbled together during shipping and throughout the entire material movement process. It streamlines the process along assembly lines by removing the need for purpose-built mechanisms, expensive custom crates and human interaction, which represents a significant return on investment for our customers.

"Our research indicates that there are approximately ten times as many random bin picking opportunities for any type of material movement application than current automation practices allow. We will target these opportunities."

Braintech is hard at work on more advancements in robotic technology.
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