Universal Robots unveils its AI Accelerator , enabling a new wave of AI-powered cobot innovations
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Universal Robots unveils its AI Accelerator , enabling a new wave of AI-powered cobot innovations
Universal Robots , the Danish collaborative robot ( cobot ) company , has 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 ) nextgeneration software platform PolyScope X and is powered by
NVIDIA Isaac™ accelerated libraries and AI models , running on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ systemon-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
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