Universal Robotics creates software that automates intelligence, enabling machines to learn from experience, react and adapt to their surroundings, and perform tasks that are costly, dangerous or difficult for humans to undertake.
The company's signature technology, Neocortex, which was developed over seven years at NASA and Vanderbilt University, increases efficiency and worker safety across industries in applications including warehousing, mining, handling hazardous waste and automating vehicles such as forklifts. The first application is in the materials handling supply chain as the control system for a Yaskawa Motoman industrial robot tasked with moving mixed size boxes inside distribution center warehouses.
Universal’s sensor expertise has lead to the release of Spatial Vision™ and Spatial Vision Robotics, software products which allow for the calibration of loosely placed webcams to generate highly accurate 3D positioning. Feedback from this 3D vision in real time (visual servoing) enables Neocortex reactive automation during task completion. Unlike any other software products, Neocortex software then optimizes patterns of similar tasks over time, resulting in long-term adaptive automation. These breakthrough technologies are not dependent on a particular hardware platform or software implementation and can be applied to automate any machinery.
Specialties
Robotics, Kinematics, Computer Vision, 3D Vision, Machine Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Sensors, Servoing, Control Systems
