AI-Powered Cobot Application Development

Universal Robots (UR) says its AI Accelerator will enable AI-powered cobot application innovations. The company describes its UR AI Accelerator as a ready-to-use hardware and software tool kit for developing AI-powered commercial and research cobot applications.

Powered by NVIDIA Isaac accelerated libraries and AI models, the tool kit applies AI capabilities to UR’s PolyScope X software platform and runs on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module. The tool kit also includes the Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D camera.

Built-in demo programs enable 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 which tool sets, programming languages and libraries they want to use, as well as the flexibility to create their own programs.

In a release, UR says users building programs on the new platform will be able decrease time to deployment. Also, the AI Accelerator is just the first to market of a series of AI-powered products and capabilities in UR’s pipeline, all of which are focused on making robotics more accessible.

The PolyScope X platform is available globally and can be used for cobot automation applications across industries. UR notes that with a small hardware upgrade, the software is compatible with UR’s e-Series cobots and the new-generation UR20 and UR30 cobots.