ODENSE,
Denmark, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Universal Robots, the Danish collaborative robot (cobot)
company, has today presented for the first time the UR AI
Accelerator – a ready-to-use hardware and software toolkit
created to further enable the development of AI-powered cobot
applications.
Designed for commercial and research applications, the UR
AI Accelerator provides developers with an extensible platform
to build applications, accelerate research and reduce time to
market of AI products.
The toolkit brings AI acceleration to Universal Robots' (UR)
next-generation software platform PolyScope X and is powered
by NVIDIA Isaac™ accelerated libraries and AI models, running on
the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ system-on-module. Specifically, NVIDIA
Isaac Manipulator gives developers the ability to bring
accelerated performance and state-of-the-art AI technologies to
their robotics solutions. The toolkit also includes the
high-quality, newly developed Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D
camera.
With everything seamlessly integrated, the toolkit offers
developers full go-to-market architecture and is ready to use
straight out of the box.
Through in-built demo programs, the AI Accelerator
leverages UR's platform to enable features like pose estimation,
tracking, object detection, path planning, image classification,
quality inspection, state detection and more. Enabled by PolyScope
X, the UR AI Accelerator also gives developers the freedom to
choose exactly what toolsets, programming languages and libraries
they want to use and the flexibility to create their own
programs.
"With the UR AI Accelerator, we provide our partners with
everything they need to develop and deploy new, innovative AI
solutions," says Kim Povlsen, CEO
and President of Universal Robots. "We are already a leading
platform for taking AI cobot applications to market and now we
are pushing the boundaries even further. The most exciting part
will be seeing the impact of these new capabilities for our
partners and end customers."
James Davidson, Chief
AI Officer, Teradyne Robotics,
elaborates:
"UR's AI Accelerator is built for where AI will really make a
difference – if you're building solutions on our platform, it will
decrease your time to deployment while also de-risking the
development of AI-based solutions. With our objective to take
physical AI to an entirely new level, AI Accelerator is just the
first to market of a series of AI-powered products and capabilities
in UR's pipeline, all with the focused goal of making robotics
more accessible than ever before."
Unveiled the same week that sees hundreds of robot software
developers gathering for ROSCon 2024 in UR's hometown of
Odense, Denmark, a demo of
the UR AI Accelerator with a CNC machine tending application will
be displayed at the ROSCon exhibition.
The PolyScope X platform is globally available and can
be used for all cobot automation applications across industries.
Its advanced flexibility and extensibility will be showcased at the
PolyScope X Festival in November, presenting a range of the
solutions already developed with this new platform, including AI
solutions. With a small hardware upgrade, the software is
compatible with UR's e-Series cobots and the new-generation cobots
UR20 and UR30.
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About Universal Robots
Universal Robots is a global leader in collaborative robotics
(cobots), used across a wide range of industries. Our mission is
simple: Automation for anyone. Anywhere. With over 90,000 cobots
sold worldwide, our user-friendly platform is supported by
intuitive PolyScope software, award-winning training, comprehensive
services, and the world's largest cobot ecosystem, delivering
innovation and choice to our customers.
Universal Robots is part of Teradyne Robotics, a division of
Teradyne (NASDAQ: TER), a leading supplier of automatic test
equipment and advanced robotics technology.
For more information, please visit www.universal-robots.com.
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