STEMMER IMAGING, KUKA Switzerland and the Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik (Interstate College for Technology NTB) in Buchs, Switzerland, have developed a robotics software package, V4R (Vision for Robotics), using STEMMER IMAGING’s Common Vision Blox (CVB) imaging toolkit. Image processing provides mechanical robots with a new mode of perception by giving them added vision. The V4R software runs directly on the controller of the KUKA robot, so a separate image processing PC is not required, and users with robotics experience can code the vision application in the language with which they are familiar.