
Universal Robots
Universal Robots launch its new UR AI Accelerator.
Universal Robots has unveiled its new ready-to-use hardware and software toolkit for AI-powered cobot applications, the UR AI Accelerator. Designed with commercial and research applications in mind, the UR AI Accelerator is an extensible platform that can help build applications, speed up research, and minimise time to market relating to AI products.
“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.”
Universal Robots software platform PolyScope X, powered by NVIDIA Isaac, now boasts AI acceleration running on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module. The NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator provides developers with accelerated performance and enhanced AI technologies to improve their robotic solutions. Additionally, the tool kit includes the newly developed Orbbec Gemini 335Lg 3D camera.
“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 at 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.”
Leveraging the Universal Robots platform, the AI Accelerator provides features including pose estimation, tracking, object detection, path planning, image classification, quality inspection, state detection, and more. With PolyScope X, users will receive greater freedom when choosing toolsets, programming languages, and libraries, with developers even able to create their own programs.