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 newgeneration cobots UR20 and UR30 .
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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