The Croatian robotics and artificial intelligence company Gideon Brothers continues to innovate with its new products. After introducing their first commercial product, the autonomous logistics robot nicknamed Škaro in 2019, the time has now come for the autonomous robotic forklift, which they have already started delivering to customers this summer, including one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world based in the USA.
– Specifically, we delivered the most important part of such a solution, which is the brain of the autonomous forklift of the future. It is an AI navigation software powered by our internally developed stereo-vision cameras. We believe that visual perception is the key to automating the vast global fleet of industrial logistics vehicles in the coming years, and this trend is rapidly accelerating due to the COVID-19 pandemic – says the company’s director Matija Kopić.
More specifically, for this specific solution, Gideon Brothers’ technology allows any forklift to understand its environment very similarly to how we humans understand it: geometrically (in three dimensions) and semantically (enabling the differentiation of the meanings of objects in the world). This type of ‘rich’ understanding of the environment will enable the mobile robots of the future to be safer, more resourceful, and capable of functioning in extremely dynamic and unpredictable environments.
