How it started
Company history
Founded in 1983, Adept was originally the West Coast Division of Unimation, which later became part of Westinghouse after being a division of Consolidated Diesel Electronic (Condec). However, its roots trace back nearly ten years earlier when founders Bruce Shimano and Brian Carlisle, both Stanford graduate students, collaborated with Victor Scheinman at Stanford's AI lab.
In 2000, Adept Technology acquired Pensar Tucson Inc.
In 2015, Omron acquired Adept Technology.
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.
Hardware and software history
From Wikipedia’s article on Adept Technology, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3