Robotics in Silicon Valley - Automationspraxis...2018/06/19 · •Current focus on developing ROS...

KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Intelligente Prozessautomation und Robotik (IPR) ––– Institut für Anthropomatik und Robotik (IAR) ––– Fakultät für Informatik

www.kit.edu

Robotics in Silicon Valley

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Kröger

Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR)

Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR)

Content

• Non-exhaustive overview of US robotics

activities

• Mostly based on personal experience

Outline

(Un)related Stories from Silicon Valley

Robot Arms and Grasping

Robots in Logistics

Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF)

• Willow Garage spinoff (May 2012)

• Non-profit organization

• Maintains ROS and Gazebo

• CEO: Brian Gerkey

• Current focus on developing ROS 2.0

• No safety, no proper real-time

Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC)

• Taxable subsidiary of OSRF (Sep 2016)

• For-profit

• Initially funded by Toyota Research Institute

• OSRF will keep holding software copyright

• New website: http://www.openrobotics.org

Southwest Research Institute

• Initiated ROS industrial (ROS-I)

• Non-safe, non-real-time connection to COTS

industrial robots

• Head of ROS-I: Shaun Edwards

RTI – Real-Time Innovations

RTI Connext DDS

Distributed real-time middleware

Toyota Research Institute (TRI)

• R&D in multiple robtoics domains:

• Self-driving

• Production and manufacturing

• Autonomous mobile manipulation

• CEO: Gil Pratt

• CTO: James Kuffner

Toyota Research Institute (TRI)

• HSR, Human Support

Huawei Technologies

• Mobile robot for kids and education

• Strong emphasis on social human-robot

interaction

Mayfield Robotics (Bosch)

• Kuri

• Home robot

• Announced price: $699

• Inherently safe

• Focus on social human-

robot interaction

Savioke

• Delivery robot: Relay

• Hotels, logistics, home

• Founder and CEO: Steve Cousins

Savioke

Silicon Valley Robotics

Verb Surgical

• F(o)unded by J&J and Alphabet

• „Surgery 4.0“: digital surgery platform

• Robotics

• Visualization

• Advanced instrumentation

• Data analytics

• Connectivity

Auris Health (formerly Surgical Robotics)

• Founded by Fed Moll

• Monarch: Auris Robotic

Endoscopy System

• Out of stealth in 2018

• Acquisition of Hansen

Medical

• Device FDA approved

Intuitive Surgical

• da Vinci Surgical System is still the sole product

• „Major“ product upgrade announced

SRI International

openAI

• F(o)unded by Elon Musk in 2015

• Non-profit

• Mission: „Friendly artificial intelligence“

• Learning robot motions from human

demonstrations in VR

• Founder: Pieter Abbeel

Covariant.AI

• On-demand supply-chains that enable

profitable, one-hour delivery for online

grocers.

• Based in Israel

• Investors from California

Commonsense Robotics

Symb.io

• Machine learning for robotics

• Still in stealth mode

Magic Leap

• Augmented realty devices and eco system

• Based in FL, CA, ,Switzerland, and Israel

ARRAIY

• Content creation for AR and VR using computer

vision and deep learning

• Still in stealth phase

Lighthouse

• Part of the Playground Global incubator

• Deep learning for visual object recognition

Lighthouse

Suitable Technologies

• F(o)under: Scott Hassan

• Tele-presence robots

• Beam Pro

• Beam Plus

Outline

Robots in Logistics

Alphabet

• Robotics acquisitions 2013 and 2014

Holomni

Interview from Dec 2016

June 2017

Learning Hand-Eye Coordination

512x512 pixels

Finger position

Output

Task space

gripper motion

800,000 attempts

14 robot arms

Two months

CNNs for deep

reinforcement learning

Shared models

Learning Hand-Eye Coordination

Data Driven Robotics

Different Objects, Different Grasping Strategies

New (Unknown) Objects

X, Google Research

Next Generation Arm Farm

DexNet 2.0 (UC Berkeley)

Outline

Robots in Logistics

RightHand Robotics

• Based in Massachusetts

• Autonomous picking for e-commerce order

fulfillment

Kinema Systems

• Robot paletizing

• 3D vision using deep learning

• Founder: Sachin Chitta

Kinema Systems

Fetch Robotics

• Autonomous mobile robots for warehouses

• Founder: Melonee Wise

• ROS

Fetch Robotics

Outline

Robot Arms

Robots in Logistics

Thank you!

torsten@kit.edu

De-hyping AI

1. Machine learning means learning from data; AI

is a buzzword

2. Machine learning is about data and algorithms,

but mostly data

3. Unless you have a lot of data, you should stick

to simple models

Simplified: The “Four Revolutions”

1. Mechanical hardware

2. Electrical hardware

3. Software

4. Data

3. Software

4. Data

3. Software

4.Data

3. Software

4.Data

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