ArticleBody:Walter LaPlante’s love of technology and cars comes from his dad, Lou, a 30-year veteran of Ford Motor Company. In 2003, the elder LaPlante won the Henry Ford Technology Award for the 3D Robotic Guided Vision system he invented. Walter describes his dad’s 3D Robotic Guided Vision system as “a robot with eyes” that picks up a part and places it in reach of another robot that docks it to the engine. Today, the technology is still used in the assembly process.
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