MogiPhlux Technologies
Software Engineer Intern/Co-op
Internship
$20 to $30 a hour
About the job
About Phlux Industrial robots are fast, heavy, and unforgiving, so they get fenced off. The devices that guard them — light curtains, laser scanners, safety mats — mostly protect a flat plane or a patch of floor, which forces a big rectangular cage around the machine, eats floor space, and halts production every time somebody steps too close. We build a 3D safety sensor that changes the shape of that problem, literally. It monitors a programmable three-dimensional protection zone around a robot, detects in real time when someone enters it, and drives safety outputs wired into the customer's safety controller. Safety itself is table stakes — every plant already has to meet it. What a 3D zone...