NVIDIA GTC Berlin – humanoid robots continue their march into the automotive sector
More evidence that humanoid robots’ ‘natural’ home is in the automotive sector arrived this week, at NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin AI conference, which wraps today.
At the event, Munich, Germany, based Agile Robotics announced a four-way partnership with upscale carmaker Audi, France’s Dassault Systèmes (the industrial software member of the Dassault Group), and $5 trillion US hardware behemoth NVIDIA. The aim is to explore automating key logistics processes within Audi’s manufacturing plants.
At the centre of the partnership is an unnamed mobile humanoid, which Agile is developing for the intralogistics stage of a vehicle’s assembly. The robot is being trained at Audi’s Production Lab to pick and sequence different parts from containers, ensuring that the right ones reach the right workstations in the correct order.
At present, these slow, complex, but routine and repetitive processes are carried out by human workers, who have the expertise to pick and sequence the parts...
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