Velodyne Lidar, Inc. and MOV.AI have announced to collaborate to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. The MOV.AI Robotics Engine Platform, combined with Velodyne’s LiDAR sensors, addresses the growing demand for automation in dynamic collaborative environments such as e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing and hospitals.
The MOV.AI Robotics Engine Platform, powered by Velodyne’s Puck LiDAR sensors, delivers advanced tools that allow autonomous mobile robots (AMR) manufacturers and integrators to address the challenges.
The Robotics Engine Platform helps AMR manufacturers quickly develop and deploy robots that can operate in dynamic environments in which humans, manual machines and robots work side-by-side. The platform leverages the performance and reliability of the Puck sensor to allow mobile robots to traverse outside-controlled situations and safely function in unfamiliar and unpredictable settings. The Puck’s compact form factor enables it to be embedded easily into robots. The sensor delivers high accuracy in complex indoor and outdoor environments.
“Adding MOV.AI and Velodyne technologies to TUGBOT.ai provided our robot with an off-the-shelf, high-accuracy navigation and localization solution for the high and dynamic environments where we are deploying our AMRs,” Fernando Freitas, CEO at RoboSavvy, manufacturer of the AMR TUGBOT.ai, was quoted as saying.
“MOV.AI’s mission is to simplify collaborative robot development and to provide AMR manufacturers and integrators with everything they need to develop and operate great robots,” said Motti Kushnir, MOV.AI’s CEO.
“We are very excited about the collaboration with MOV.AI and integration of our LiDAR sensors into the Robotics Engine Platform, including future expansion to our solid state Velarray and Velabit products,” said Erich Smidt, Executive Director of Europe, Velodyne Lidar.
