ABB partners with start-up Sevensense to drive next generation autonomous mobile robots.
ENPNewswire-November 22, 2021--ABB partners with start-up Sevensense to drive next generation autonomous mobile robots
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Release date- 18112021 - ABB invests in Swiss start-up and ETH Zurich spin-off Sevensense Robotics (Sevensense), a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D visual technology.
Integrating Sevensense AI and navigation technology will enable future autonomous mobile robots (AMR) to work in more dynamic, unstructured environments
ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense, founded in 2018 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, to enhance ABB's new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology. The technology will offer customers unprecedented levels of flexibility as mobile robots will be able to navigate autonomously in complex, dynamic indoor and outdoor environments close to people.
ABB will integrate Sevensense's AI and mapping technology into its AMR portfolio, enabling its mobile robots to safely navigate in dynamic environments.
ABB will integrate Sevensense's AI and mapping technology into its AMR portfolio, enabling its mobile robots to safely navigate in dynamic environments.
The partnership is another important step in ABB's strategy to drive the next generation of flexible automation and expand ABB's robotics and automation portfolio, following its acquisition of ASTI Mobile Robotics, a leading global AMR manufacturer, announced in July 2021. The partnership includes a minority investment in Sevensense through ABB's venture capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures, which is expected to close by the end of November 2021.
'Building on our acquisition of ASTI Mobile Robotics earlier this year, our partnership with Sevensense is another milestone in our efforts to fully unlock flexible automation for our customers,' said Sami Atiya, President of ABB Robotics & Discrete Automation. 'Integrating Sevensense's AI and 3D mapping technology with our AMR offering will help accelerate the replacement of today's linear production lines with fully flexible networks. Our vision of the future workplace is one in which AMRs move materials, parts and finished products between smart workstations in increasingly unstructured, dynamic work environments and our partnership with Sevensense is an important step in realizing that vision.'
The Sevensense navigation technology uses...
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