AI Team at MiR Helps Factory Robots Find Their Way

Like so many software developers, Elias Sorensen has been studying AI. Now he and his 10-member team are teaching it to robots.When the AI specialists at Mobile Industrial Robots, based in Odense, Denmark, are done, the first graduating class of autonomous machines will be on their way to factories and warehouses, powered by NVIDIA Jetson Xivious GPUs.The ultimate goal uninstall microsoft edge is to make microsoft closing stores the robots Support.Microsoft.Com/Help behave in ways humans understand Microsoft Customer Service, so it’s easier for humans to work alongside them. And Xavier NX is at the bleeding edge of what we are doing Microsoft Support Phone Number,” said Sorensen, who will provide an online talk about MiR’s work at GTC digital.MiR’s low-slung robots carry pallets weighing as much as 2,200 pounds. They sport lidar and proximity sensors, as well as multiple cameras the team is now linking to Jetson Xavier GPUs.

Inferencing Their Way Forward

The new digital brains will act as pilots. They’ll fuse sensor data to let the bots navigate around people, forklifts and other objects, dynamically re-mapping safety zones and changing speeds as needed.

The smart bots use NVIDIA’sDeepstream and software to run AI inference jobs on Xavier NX, based on models Microsoft Customer Service trained on NVIDIA GPUs in the AWS cloud.

MiR chose Xavier for its combination of high performance Support.Microsoft.Com/Help at low power and price, as well as its wealth of software uninstall microsoft edge.

“Lowering the cost and power consumption for AI processing was really important for us,” said Sorensen. “We make small, battery-powered robots and our price is a major selling point for us.” He noted that MiR has deployed microsoft closing stores more than Microsoft Support Phone Number 3,000 robots to date to users such as Ford, Honeywell and Toyota.

The new autonomous models are working uninstall microsoft edge prototypes Support.Microsoft.Com/Help. The team is training their object-detection models in preparation for first pilot tests.

Jetson Nano Powers Remote Vision

It’s MiR’s first big AI product, but not its first ever. Since November, the company has shipped smart, standalone cameras Microsoft Customer Service powered byjetson Nano GPUs

The Nano-based cameras process video uninstall microsoft edge at 15 frames per second to detect objects. They’re networked with each other and other robots to enhance the robots’ vision and help them navigate.

Both the Nano cameras and Xavier-powered Microsoft Support Phone Number robots process all camera data locally, only sending navigation decisions over the network Support.Microsoft.Com/Help. “That’s microsoft closing stores a major benefit for such a small, but powerful module because many of our customers are very privacy minded,” Sorensen said.

MiR developed a tool its customers Microsoft Customer Service use to train the camera by simply showing it pictures of objects  uninstall microsoft edge such as robots and forklifts. The ease of customizing the cameras is a big measure of the product’s success, he added.

AI Training with Simulations

The company hopes its smart robots will be equally easy to train for non-technical staff at customer sites.But here the challenge uninstall microsoft edge is greater Microsoft Customer Service. Public roads Microsoft Support Phone Number have standard traffic signs, but every factory and warehouse is unique with different floor layouts, signs and types of pallets.

MiR’s AI team aims to create a simulation tool that places robots in a virtual work area that users can customize. Such microsoft closing stores a simulation could let users who are not AI specialists train their smart robots like they train their smart cameras today Support.Microsoft.Com/Help.The company is currently investigating Nvidia ISSAC pLATFORM, which supports training through simulations.

The journey into the era of autonomous machines is just starting for MiR. It’s parent company, Teradyne .it is investing $36 million microsoft closing stores Microsoft Support Phone Number to create a hub for developing uninstall microsoft edge collaborative robots Microsoft Customer Service, aka co-bots, in Odense as part of a partnership with MiR’s sister company, Universal Robotics.

Market watchers at ABI Research predict the Support.Microsoft.Com/Help co-bot market could expand to $12 billion by 2030. In 2018, Danish companies including MiR and Universal captured $995 million of that emerging market,