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Enhancing Productivity through Collaborative Robotics: Robust.AI's Innovative Approach

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Introduction to Collaborative Productivity

At Robust.AI, we believe that automation should not be about replacing people with robots, but rather about enhancing the productivity and engagement of your existing workforce. Our approach, which we call collaborative productivity, aims to improve operational efficiency and employee engagement by providing better tools and solutions designed specifically for your people.

In the past, I have defined and built completely new classes of robots, from the Roomba to the PackBot, and now we're introducing a new iconic class – Carter. Carter represents a new type of robot, one that is built not just to work near people, but with people. It can complete its work autonomously, but at the same time, it is responsive to people and its surroundings.

Robust.AI's Vision for Automation

We believe that automation should empower people, not replace them. Our robots are designed to work in coordination with people, moving and flowing like responsive dance partners. Carter, our latest innovation, is the ultimate power tool for any user, changing modes and becoming intuitive to maneuver with a simple touch of its handle. Many autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) make people feel unsafe and unseen, making operations less efficient. At Robust.AI, we put people first and build robots to enhance their capabilities. Carter works with you, moves with you, and flows with you, providing a truly collaborative mobile robot that coordinates its actions with people.

Carter: The Ultimate Collaborative Robot

Carter is our flagship robot, designed to redefine the way people and robots interact. With its intuitive and responsive design, Carter enhances safety and efficiency in collaborative environments.

Intuitive and Responsive Design

Carter's handle enables people to maneuver it intuitively, allowing them to move heavy payloads with ease, without requiring extensive training. Users only need to observe someone else using Carter to understand how to operate it. Unlike other autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that can make people feel unsafe and unseen, Carter puts people first. It moves in coordination with people like a responsive dance partner, allowing for seamless collaboration and ensuring a safe and efficient working environment.

Enhancing Safety and Efficiency

Carter's design prioritizes safety and efficiency in collaborative environments. It can complete its work autonomously, but it is also responsive to people and its surroundings, adapting its behavior to the needs of its human counterparts. By working with people, moving with them, and flowing with them, Carter redefines the way mobile robots interact with humans. It is a truly collaborative robot that knows about and responds to the presence of people, enabling users to grab and change its actions as needed.

Grace: The Intelligent Software Suite

To enable this new level of collaborative productivity, we developed Grace, an intelligent software suite that allows facility managers to quickly introduce automation without changing anything in the environment.

Grace reduces the time and effort teams spend on fetching, pushing, and parking carts, making it easy for teams to use robots to support even short, one-off jobs. With Grace, you can design and deploy user-friendly automation for your company in a day.

Rapid Deployment and Optimization

Grace simplifies the process of introducing automation to your facility. Using a phone or tablet, you can map an environment and build a digital model of your facility. With this model, you can create and simulate material handling workflows from a web browser, completing in hours what typically takes months.

Once you are satisfied with the simulation, you can deploy a workflow instantly to people and robots. Grace allows you to create virtual conveyor belts between locations in minutes, and it constantly optimizes what people and robots are doing, even as conditions change.

Situational Awareness and Fleet Intelligence

Part of Grace lives on our robots, allowing them to perceive and track people, locations, and objects. Our robots don't just move through space like other robots, seeing everything as an obstacle. They understand many things in the world, like people and congestion, so that they can coordinate their actions with people.

The robots constantly feed these observations back to our fleet intelligence, ensuring that your facility is always executing the best possible plan. Grace offers no-code setup and customization, AI-based optimization of fleets, and robots with situational awareness and responsiveness, enabling robots to work for people.

Conclusion: Collaborative Productivity for the Future

Collaborative productivity is about combining the best of what people can do with the best of what robots can do. At Robust.AI, we are redefining the way automation is implemented in workplaces by providing solutions that empower and enhance the capabilities of your existing workforce.

With Carter, our innovative collaborative robot, and Grace, our intelligent software suite, we are paving the way for a new era of flexible, high productivity automation that puts people first. Our approach ensures that robots work for people, not the other way around, enabling safer, more efficient, and more engaging operations for your employees.

FAQ

Q: What is the key concept behind Robust.AI's approach to automation?
A: Robust.AI's approach focuses on collaborative productivity, which aims to combine the strengths of humans and robots to enhance efficiency and engagement.

Q: What is Carter, and what makes it unique?
A: Carter is a collaborative robot designed to work alongside people, with intuitive controls and responsiveness to its surroundings.

Q: What is Grace, and how does it support collaborative productivity?
A: Grace is a software suite that allows for rapid deployment and optimization of material handling workflows, enabling robots to work effectively with people.

Q: How does Grace facilitate quick deployment of automation solutions?
A: Grace allows users to map their environment, create digital models, and simulate workflows from a web browser, reducing deployment time from months to hours.

Q: What are some examples of how Grace optimizes workflows?
A: Grace constantly optimizes the actions of people and robots, even as situations change, and can create virtual conveyor belts between locations in minutes.

Q: How do Robust.AI's robots perceive and interact with their surroundings?
A: The robots have situational awareness, understanding people, locations, and objects, allowing them to coordinate their actions with humans.

Q: What is fleet intelligence, and how does it benefit collaborative productivity?
A: Fleet intelligence is a feature of Grace that allows robots to feed observations back to the system, enabling continuous optimization of facility operations.

Q: What are some key benefits of Robust.AI's collaborative productivity approach?
A: Benefits include enhanced safety and efficiency, rapid deployment and customization, AI-based optimization, and robots that are responsive and aware of their surroundings.

Q: How does Robust.AI's approach differ from traditional automation solutions?
A: Robust.AI's approach focuses on collaboration between humans and robots, rather than replacing humans entirely, with the goal of empowering and engaging people.

Q: What is the ultimate goal of Robust.AI's collaborative productivity solutions?
A: The ultimate goal is to enable robots to work effectively for people, combining the best of what humans and robots can do to enhance productivity and engagement.

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