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If I Only Had a Brain
3D Vision Guidance, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Machine Learning, Neocortex, Robot Vision Guidance, Robotics / 25.02.20200 comments
If your robots could text you, it’s first message would read: “If I only Had a Brain”
Neocortex Leads the industry with a software “Brain” that gives robots human-like flexibility at high speed.
As Ray Bolger rightly exclaimed in the Wizard of Oz in 1939 “I could think of things I’d never Thunk before, And then I’d sit down and think some more.” Welcome to Industry 4.0 and the world of smart robots. Over the last few years, advances in the coupling of AI, 3D vision, and robot control, have spawned the expansion of machines replacing or working closely with laborers, manifesting all the benefits of automation to new horizons.
Universal spent a decade advancing it’s robot software brain, Neocortex. Today the technology is integrated across the supply chain from handling retail products to manufacturing, allowing our customers to reap the benefits of lower operating cost, improved reliability, and mitigation of risk. The product is achieved 6 Sigma reliability with picking speeds up to 1800 cycles per hour, tripling typical manual output.
Upgrade or Retrofit your current robots to Smart Robots and achieve both increased adaptability and productivity out of your Robots!
Read a fascinating article Dumb Robots vs. Smart Robots “If we want machines to think, we need to teach them to see” Fei-Fei Le, Chief Scientist Google, AI/Machine Learning.
From Bloomberg News: Make Dumb Industrial Robots Smart
Read More >>Supply Chain Analytics
Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, eCommerce, Machine Learning, Neocortex, Robotic Order Fulfillment, Robotics, Robotics Business / 29.08.2014
Clint Reiser points out in the linked article that a new revolution in supply chain analytics is occurring. There is new level of data detail, it’s coming at us faster, providing bigger patterns and better insights.
The detail isn’t just point-of-sale information, customer buying patterns, or fleet telematics. From Universal’s perspective, the combining of machine learning and machine vision into robust automated solutions for material handling processes previously thought as random is a unique source of this data.
Read More >>Deep Learning for Robots
3D Vision Guidance, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Neocortex, Robotics, Robotics Business / 08.08.2014
Check out this interesting article on advances in deep learning for robots: Robots Helped Inspire Deep Learning and Might Become Its Killer App?
It’s worth comparing/contrasting between deep learning techniques and Neocortex. Neocortex is Universal Robotics’ patented machine learning platform, based on a seven-year development effort between NASA and Vanderbilt University. Even though the technology is currently employed on Robonaut 2 on the International Space Station, Universal’s focus with Neocortex is material handling tasks. By learning to recognize new objects or recognize previously seen objects that have changed, Neocortex machine intelligence brings flexibility to material handling automation.
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