San Antonio company uses AI for warehouse management with human integration [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – Artificial intelligence has become widespread across different industries, including warehouse management.

San Antonio company Plus One Robotics not only leverages AI to enhance warehouse management operations but emphasizes that humans remain integral to the process.

“We build robot systems for warehouse automation. Most robots are in manufacturing, we build robots to deal with applications inside warehouses, a lot of material handling and movement,” said Erik Nieves, co-founder and CEO of Plus One Robotics.

Nieves says artificial intelligence is integrated into every robot deployed.

“Most of what we use AI for is processing an image. So, we use cameras, special 3D cameras to look at the packages or the items that need to be picked and then AI helps us discriminate that image and say, here’s the different surfaces that you can pick. Here’s the different items. I think you should pick this one instead of that one,” Nieves said.

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