Wind River, a global leader in software for mission-critical intelligent systems, announced that Yaskawa Electric Corporation, a leading manufacturer of servo motors, AC drives and industrial robots, has launched Wind River Linux used in the development of its new product MOTOMAN NEXT.
MOTOMAN NEXT has the capabilities to autonomously adapt to the environment and make judgments with advanced AI capabilities. Yaskawa’s new robot leverages NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ and Wind River Linux to realize new levels of intelligence and autonomy. The system can handle demanding tasks in unstructured environments and advance automation into new application areas where it was previously difficult due to the human perception and judgment skills required.
“AI opens up new and amazing possibilities. We are pleased to support the next generation of AI-enabled robotics from an industry leader like Yaskawa with the combination of Wind River Linux and NVIDIA Jetson,” said Amit Ronen, Chief Customer Officer of Wind River. “Together with Yaskawa and NVIDIA, we can help teams rapidly innovate in machine learning and AI to create smarter systems.”
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MOTOMAN NEXT can assess changes in the environment and system status and perform tasks based on this, including taking other robots or peripherals into account. The system can perform tasks that previously required human recognition skills and judgment, such as navigating an optimal path to avoid obstacles, sorting and packing items of different colors and shapes, and other tasks with many variables and uncertain elements. Wind River Linux is used in the MOTOMAN NEXT autonomous control unit running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin.
As a platform for edge AI, embedded and robotics applications, NVIDIA Jetson offers scalable software, a modern AI stack, production-ready ROS packages and application-specific AI workflows. It can share AI software and cloud-native workflows with other applications while delivering the energy-efficient performance needed to realize software-based autonomous machines and breakthrough edge AI solutions. The combination of Wind River Linux and the NVIDIA Jetson platform enables edge applications with advanced AI.
As the embedded industry’s leading and most advanced Linux platform 1 , Wind River Linux helps teams develop, deploy and operate robust, reliable and secure embedded solutions running on a purpose-built Linux operating system. Wind River Linux offers high stability and security to meet the high performance requirements of business-critical applications.
SOURCE: Businesswire
