Adept Technology Announces New Generation Vision System; AdeptVision AVI Extends Machine Vision Capabilities.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000

Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADTK), a leading manufacturer of flexible automation for the telecommunications, fiber optic and semiconductor industries, today announced the release of AdeptVision AVI. AdeptVision AVI is the newest generation vision product from Adept that consists of a new digital signal processor based frame capture and image processing board and new software, including ObjectFinder 2000, Adept's geometric object recognition tool.

"AdeptVision AVI is Adept's 11th generation vision system, and further extends our lead in integrated robot guidance applications," said Joe Campbell, vice president of marketing for Adept Technology. "We are delivering the best-in-class finder tool for robot guidance with ObjectFinder 2000 and across the board performance improvements of up to 14x over current execution rates."

AdeptVision AVI, the most powerful vision system ever offered by Adept, includes the new Advanced Vision Interface (AVI) board and the next generation ObjectFinder 2000 recognition tool. This marks a culmination of efforts that included the acquisition of HexaVision Technologies in July, 2000. Included in the AdeptVision AVI system is ObjectFinder 2000 which provides a new, robust, accurate and high performance general-purpose object recognition tool that extends Adept's machine vision capabilities into the most challenging imaging environments. Tolerant to drastic lighting changes and cluttered scenes, ObjectFinder 2000 robustly locates objects despite changes in position, rotation, appearance and scale. ObjectFinder 2000 delivers superior performance while leveraging Adept's incomparable integration of motion control and machine vision.

Adept Technology designs, manufactures and markets factory automation components and systems for the fiber optic, telecommunications, semiconductor, automotive, food and durable goods industries throughout the world. Adept's robots, controllers and software products are used for small parts assembly, material handling and ultra precision process applications. Our intelligent automation product lines include industrial robots, configurable linear modules, flexible feeders, semiconductor process components, nanopositioners, machine controllers for robot mechanisms and other flexible automation equipment, machine vision, systems and software, application software, and simulation software. Founded in 1983, Adept is America's largest manufacturer of industrial robots. More information is available at www.adept.com.

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including but not limited to, the potential delays associated with the development and introduction of new products or software releases; the potential fluctuations in the company's quarterly and annual results of operations; the cyclicality of capital spending of the company's customers; the company's dependence on the continued growth of the intelligent automation market; the risks associated with sole or single sources of supply and lengthy procurement lead times; the company's highly competitive industry; and rapid technological change within the company's industry.

For a discussion of risk factors relating to Adept's business, see Adept's Form 10Q for the quarters ended October 2, 1999, January 1, 2000 and April 1, 2000, as well as our annual report on Form 10K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, including the discussion in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations filed as an exhibit thereto, filed on September 28, 2000.

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