Universal Robots AI Accelerator offers to ease development of cobot applications [Video]

The latest advances in artificial intelligence promise to improve robot capabilities, but engineers need to bring the technologies together. Universal Robots A/S last week announced its UR AI Accelerator, a hardware and software toolkit to enable the development of AI-powered collaborative robot applications.

The UR AI Accelerator is an extensible platform for developers to build commercial and research applications, said the Odense, Denmark-based company. It is also intended to accelerate research and reduce the time to market for AI products, Universal Robots said at ROSCon.

“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,” stated James Davidson, chief AI officer at Teradyne Robotics, parent organization of Universal Robots.

“People spend an enormous amount of time on the connective tissue of these systems — selecting hardware, finding compute and cameras, and on compliance,” he told The Robot Report. “On the software side, developers …