FANUC and NVIDIA
FANUC announced it is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA across simulation, robot learning and edge AI.
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FANUC and NVIDIA
FANUC announced it is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA across simulation, robot learning and edge AI.
FANUC announced it had strengthened its collaboration with NVIDIA with a trio of announcements.
FANUC said that the expanded collaborations show a practical path to bringing physical AI into industrial robotics, using NVIDIA simulation, robot learning and edge AI technologies to make robot development, testing and deployment faster and more capable.
FANUC said that it has further strengthened the integration between NVIDIA’s open robot simulation reference framework NVIDIA Isaac Sim and FANUC’s robot simulation software ROBOGUIDE.
The company said that this enables intuitive operation within a virtual factory and realizes highly accurate, seamlessly integrated digital twins.
At an Open House Show, FANUC said that it will demonstrate a dual-arm system using two CRX collaborative robots to fold flexible objects (T-shirts) by imitation learning, using NVIDIA’s open robot foundation model NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N.
The companies said that folding flexible objects like T-shirts requires continuous adaptation of robot motion to changing shapes, making it difficult to achieve using conventional playback teaching or vision-based robot path compensation.
In this demonstration, FANUC said that an operator performs the folding task using CRX robots, and the system learns from these examples through imitation learning. The dual-arm CRX system is trained to replicate the task and acquire the necessary techniques to complete the folding process.
At last year’s International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, FANUC introduced an “AI robot that avoids human,” based on FANUC robot’s open platform. The company said that the system has been upgraded with NVIDIA’s latest robotic computer, NVIDIA Jetson Thor.
By replacing NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module with Jetson T5000 module, FANUC said that the system’s AI compute has improved by more than 7.5 times. At the exhibition, FANUC said that visitors can experience a robot that avoids human movement more quickly and smoothly, utilizing the powerful capabilities of Jetson Thor.
Click here to read the full announcement detailing the expanded collaboration.
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