Universal Robots unveils the AI Accelerator, an NVIDIA-powered toolkit for AI cobot applications

Universal Robots (Teradyne)/UR AI Accelerator & AI Trainer

Universal Robots launched the AI Accelerator, a ready-to-use hardware and software kit for building AI applications on its cobots. It pairs an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin computer and NVIDIA's Isaac robot-AI libraries with a new Orbbec 3D camera, running on UR's PolyScope X software. It gives integrators a common base for AI cells instead of each building its own.

• Built-in demos: pose estimation, tracking, object detection, path planning, image classification, quality inspection.
• Uses NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator; developers can pick their own languages and libraries.
• PolyScope X is available globally; e-Series, UR20 and UR30 need a small hardware upgrade to run it.
• Teradyne's Chief AI Officer James Davidson called it the first of a series of AI-powered products.