Universal Robots
The Universal Robots' AI Accelerator toolkit is enabled by UR's 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. The toolkit also includes the Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D camera. The Accelerator is depicted here from the ROSCon exhibition 2024 as a demo of the AI Accelerator with a CNC machine tending application using a UR5e.
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Universal Robots
The Universal Robots' AI Accelerator toolkit is enabled by UR's 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. The toolkit also includes the Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D camera. The Accelerator is depicted here from the ROSCon exhibition 2024 as a demo of the AI Accelerator with a CNC machine tending application using a UR5e.
Universal Robots, the Danish collaborative robot (cobot) company, has unveiled its UR AI Accelerator, which the company says is 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 the time to market of AI products.
The toolkit brings AI acceleration to Universal Robots' PolyScope X software program 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 allows developers to bring accelerated performance and state-of-the-art AI technologies to their robotics. The toolkit also includes the newly developed Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D camera.
UR says the toolkit offers developers full go-to-market architecture and is ready to use straight out of the box.
“With the UR AI Accelerator, we provide our partners with everything they need to develop and deploy new, innovative AI solutions,” said 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.”
Through in-built demo programs, the AI Accelerator utilizes 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.
"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,” said James Davidson, chief AI officer of Teradyne Robotics. “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."
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