Method And Facility For Automatically Gripping An Object

An installation for automatically picking up an article, said installation comprising a polyarticulated system associated with a vision system, and a zone suitable for receiving at least one article to be taken hold of, said polyarticulated system including at least one pick-up member suitable for taking hold of an article via at least one specific zone of said article, said vision system being suitable for taking an image of the article-receiving zone, said installation being characterized in that said vision system and said polyarticulated system are associated with processing and computation means suitable for processing the information resulting from the taken image, for identifying all of the specific zones that are present on the articles to be taken hold of, and that are compatible with the pick-up members, for locating, in position and in orientation, the identified compatible specific zones, and for automatically defining a pick path along which the corresponding pick-up member should take hold of the corresponding article via the chosen compatible specific zone.