Automation company Mov.ai and electronics manufacturer Lanner Electronics have announced the integration of Lanner’s edge AI (artificial intelligence) computing appliance, Mov.ai’s Robotics Engine Platform and the Nvidia Isaac robotics platform.
The integration provides autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturers with a new platform designed to speed up development, improve operational efficiency and optimise robot performance in industrial environments.
Research firm ABI Research predicts that the market for industrial robots will reach US$27bn (£23.6bn) in 2030.
The new integrated solution was produced to address automation challenges in the modern warehouse by leveraging Lanner’s EAI-I130 Nvidia Jetson-based edge AI computing appliance and Mov.ai’s Robotics Engine Platform that incorporates Nvidia Isaac ROS GEMs. The Nvidia Isaac ROS GEMs are hardware-accelerated packages developed for perception, SLAM navigation, image processing and more.
“Our expertise in creating Nvidia-optimised edge computing servers, combined with Nvidia’s Mov.ai’s state-of-the-art AMR software powered by Nvidia edge AI and robotics technologies, provides an off-the-shelf platform to build enterprise-grade autonomous robots for today’s challenging industrial environments,” said Jeans Tseng, CTO of Lanner Electronics.
“We are confident that our AMR platform will enable service providers and manufacturers to quickly deploy the top-performing AMR solution to the industrial IoT applications.”
The joint offering reportedly provides robot developers with fully integrated high-performance hardware, hardware-optimised robotics SDKs and a visual IDE to speed up development. The solution was built to speed up robots’ time to market and ensure high-performance machines.
