Cooperation with AnotherBrain
Schunk increases use of AI
At the Hannover Messe, Schunk announced its cooperation with AnotherBrain, a specialist in artificial intelligence. By the beginning of 2020, the first autonomous gripping system is to be developed that enables independent handling without manual programming.
Where in the past every single step was laboriously programmed, Schunk's goal is for tomorrow's handling solutions to operate much more independently. The gripper specialist has already demonstrated how this can be achieved in initial technology studies at the Hannover Messe. Instead of defining positions, speeds and gripping forces step by step, autonomous gripping systems detect their target objects via cameras, take over the gripping planning independently and refine it further and further.
Using appropriate sensors in the gripper fingers, the motor current and intelligence integrated into the gripper hand, the quality of a grip can be recorded and evaluated so that adjustments can be made if necessary. "Schunk's collaboration with AnotherBrain will accelerate progress in autonomous handling enormously," Henrik A. Schunk is convinced.
The Paris-based AI think tank AnotherBrain has excellent expertise in realizing autonomous gripping scenarios. Its founder and CEO, robotics pioneer Bruno Maisonnier, founded Aldebaran Robotics in 2005 and launched the humanoid robot Nao on the market in 2008.
In contrast to previously established deep learning, in which a large amount of data is generated and evaluated at great expense, AnotherBrain is pursuing a new approach to machine learning with the bionically inspired concept of Organic AI. Independent of clouds and networks and with minimal energy and storage requirements, Schunk's aim is to enable gripping systems to act autonomously using technology inspired by the human brain. as
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