More and more special automation equipment had been developed with progress of technology. All kinds of nonstandard equipment were applied to the specific occasion. A vision guided intelligent handing system in the paper was specially designed for carrying the inner ring and outer ring of railway-bearing from material handcart to the testing line. Robot, visual positioning, pneumatic clamping jaw, servo motor and PLC were integrated into this handing system. The visual system was led to take pictures for the inner and outer rings by robot, and transfer the location data of rings to the PLC, the brain of the whole system. The PLC controlled robot and pneumatic clamping jaw finish the handing process through accurate calculation. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018.