LP Conveyor Aids OsaroPick Robot

Workplace robots equipped with AI will let automation creep into many more areas of work. They could replace people anywhere that products need to be sorted, unpacked, or packed. In this video (which just happens to include an LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor) we can see how AI software developed by Osaro of San Francisco, Calif. advances how robots can perform “human” functions.

The AI software that controls Osaro’s robot lets it identify the objects in front of it, study how they behave when poked, pushed, and grasped, and then decide how to handle them. Like other AI algorithms, it learns from experience. Using an off-the-shelf camera combined with machine-learning software on a powerful computer nearby, it figures out how to grasp things effectively.

Read more details in the MIT Technology Review article, “This is how the robot uprising finally begins”.