MAY 6-9, 2024
Intrinsic exhibited at the Automate Show 2024 — the largest robotics and automation trade show in North America.
This year was the largest Automate Show on record, with more than 35,000 attendees and 800 exhibitors. Watch our highlight reel to get a glimpse of our exhibits at Automate 2024.
On Thursday May 9th, Wendy Tan White, Intrinsic’s CEO and Torsten Kroeger, Intrinsic’s CSO gave a keynote titled, "Realizing the value of AI in industrial automation". You can watch the recording below.
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From design to deployment, Intrinsic Flowstate is our all-in-one developer environment for building production-grade automation solutions. At our booth, visitors learned how to design and build a quick solution with Intrinsic Flowstate, from simulation to deployment – on a real work cell. They were able to program the robot to detect a printed circuit board coaster, pick it, and drop it in a chute – taking it home as a small gift.
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We also showcased a smart picking solution – powered by IntrinsicOS, optimized to run securely and reliably in production. Intrinsic's intelligent perception, motion planning and sensor-based control capabilities are combined to deliver an adaptive, high performance solution.
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Vikas and Stefan presented Google DeepMind's collaboration with Intrinsic.
Brian joined a panel of experts to delve into the latest advancements in automation and robotics, showcasing how simplified interfaces and intuitive designs are making powerful solutions easier, faster, and cheaper to deploy. Panelists included:
We demonstrated the system on a challenging smart pick-and-place application: a robot grasping metallic parts in a cluttered bin and singulating them at precise placement poses. These thin metal sheet objects are difficult to perceive because commodity depth cameras struggle with specular surfaces. They are also difficult to manipulate because suction grippers rather than fingers, are needed for grasping.
Global leader in industrial automation, is spearheading the Power of Automation with new digital-driven, advanced robotic and powerful AI-backed solutions, which it will unveil at Automate. With more than 50 years of experience in automotive, one of the most complex realities in terms of processes, cycle times, flexibility requirements and technology rates, Comau is in a prime position to meet the growing demand for sustainable automation, particularly in emerging sectors that previously lacked automation. To this end, Comau will underscore its plans in the next generation of automation solutions and how the collaboration with Intrinsic can help make the next generation of robotics significantly more accessible for companies of all sizes and across all industries, using the example of the prototype built together with Intrinsic.
Intrinsic sponsored a meetup for Robot Operating System (ROS) users and robot wranglers: it was evening of networking, swapping stories, and talking shop about open source software and robotics. ROS is all about sharing, and with so many roboticists visiting Chicago we wanted to hold a ROS event so windy city roboticists could meet their visiting counterparts! It has been ten years since ROSCon Chicago so we're long overdue for another ROS event!
The biggest robotics shift in the 21st century will be AI-driven. Machine learning, training with synthetic data, foundation models, automated computer vision, adaptive applications, data management and infrastructure will accelerate innovation in the coming decades. In industrial manufacturing, robots are incredible tools but remain costly and complex to program and reprogram—even for today’s experts. With historical barriers to entry like deep domain expertise and specialized skill sets required for programming, these incredibly valuable systems have rarely made sense—economically or operationally—for the vast majority of businesses. With the ubiquitous rise of AI, the potential for innovation and growth across entire industries is being reimagined.
Kat Scott gave a lightning talk, introducing ROS, the ROS community and ROS integrations with Flowstate.
Matt Robinson from the Southwest Research Institute gave a lightning talk on ROS industrial.
