Flexible AI-controlled picking robot with a higher degree of autonomy
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| Coordinator | Superintelligence Computing Systems SICSAI AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 6 500 000 |
| Project duration | October 2023 - October 2025 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Advanced digitalization - Enabling technologies |
| Call | Advanced and innovative digitalization 2023 - call two |
Important results from the project
The project goal to develop and test the next generation AI-controlled industrial picking robot with a higher degree of autonomy and flexibility to increase the share of automatic picking in warehouse logistics was met. The project resulted in a commercial automation solution in operation at Nowaste Logistics. The solution has a higher flexibility than a traditional robot solution and a higher robustness than what today´s AI delivers with a proven ability to handle an unstructured environment.
Expected long term effects
In the longer term, our AI robot solution creates the conditions for the automation of warehouse logistics. 80% of all warehouses lack automation today. KUKA Robotics says warehouse logistics has the same potential for robotization as automotive. It is a first step in the development of physical AGI, an AI with the capacity to control all types of robots regardless of function and form, and which can automate complex tasks such as industrial assembly work.
Approach and implementation
The development was iterative and went from solving simpler problems to greater complexity, from simulation to testing in the physical world, from lab tests to customer tests in an industrial environment. Agile work with continuous delivery of improved functionality in a number of different work packages. The project was implemented according to plan with respect to time, activities and deliverables in the work packages and we achieved expected results within budget. Collaboration worked well.