Yaskawa Electric Corporation has announced that it will demonstrate its new adaptive robot, MOTOMAN NEXT at NVIDIA GTC. NVIDIA GTC AI Conference and Expo will happen from March 18 to 21, 2024 in San Jose, USA. Specifically, the demonstration shows smart grocery bagging with the capability of using new AI technology to solve social challenges like shortage of workforce. Yaskawa will take MOTOMAN NEXT into new industries that have been difficult to automate. Additionally, it will leverage the advanced AI capabilities of the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform. This includes the new Isaac Manipulator that NVIDIA announced during GTC.

MOTOMAN NEXT has been on the market sale since December 2023. Specifically, it is one of the first commercial industrial robots equipped with NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing. Also, this brand-new model is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform and Wind River Linux OS. These give it the advanced capabilities of motion and judgment. As a result, it can handle challenging tasks in unstructured environments. Thus, it drives automation into new application areas that were previously difficult to automate because they require human-level perception and judgment capabilities.

Additionally, Masahiro Ogawa, President of Yaskawa Electric Corporation, will give a speech entitled “Next Phase of Industrial Robot Skills with AI” at NVIDIA GTC on March 19 at 10:00 AM PDT.

-18 March 2024 –