AI's Leg Up: Startup Accelerates Robotics Simulation for $8 Trillion Food Market
NVIDIA News, January 19th, 2023
Soft Robotics applies NVIDIA Isaac Sim's synthetic data to food processing automation in efforts to improve safety and increase production.
Robots are finally getting a grip.
Developers have been striving to close the gap on robotic gripping for the past several years, pursuing applications for multibillion-dollar industries. Securely gripping and transferring fast-moving items on conveyor belts holds vast promise for businesses.
Soft Robotics, a Bedford, Mass., startup, is harnessing NVIDIA Isaac Sim to help close the sim to real gap for a handful of robotic gripping applications. One area is perfecting gripping for pick and placement of foods for packaging.