Micropsi Industries is making industrial robots more ‘human’
CNNCNN — One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. “We make a control system that allows industrial robots to do things that without our software they couldn’t do,” says Ronnie Vuine, Micropsi’s founder, “which is essentially having hand-eye coordination and adapting to changing conditions in the environment as they do their work in a factory.” The company’s first product, called MIRAI, uses artificial intelligence and cameras to train robots to perform tasks that would be impossible via traditional, pre-programmed movements. Cars are just the most advanced automation game we play.” Demonstrating the technology to CNN, MIRAI allowed a robot arm to pick up a thin computer cable dangling from a person’s hand and plug it into a switch — a delicate task that is considered too hard to manually engineer a robot to do. “The cable, of course, jiggles about, so you can’t fully know and predict where that’s going to be, but the robot will reliably pick it and then insert it,” he says.
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