Trustworthy Hybrid-AI for flexible manipulation and navigation
Autonomous navigation of AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robots) and manipulation of robotic arms are advanced technologies that independently face significant challenges related to localization, path planning and accuracy. However, many industrial applications require integrated solutions that combine both capabilities: simultaneous navigation and manipulation. In other words, an Autonomous Mobile Manipulator robot.
Historically, robotic arms were used in industrial environments to perform repetitive or dangerous tasks such as welding or handling heavy loads. These robotic arms have a large manipulation capacity, but their working area is limited due to the fixed base. Because they were stationary and bulky, they operated within safety cells restricted to human operators for protection reasons.
As an alternative to heavy robotic arms, cobots emerge: more dynamic collaborative robotic arms that no longer need to be confined within safety perimeters but can safely collaborate with humans.
The result of this combination of a cobot and an AMR is an Autonomous Mobile Manipulator robot capable of performing manipulation tasks in different locations, such as moving objects between surfaces (Pick and Place).
Robotnik participates in the ULTIMATE project as an end-user, providing a use case for the automation of a kitting process, that is the placing of several components with different sizes and shapes into an ordered set in a container, i.e. a kit.
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