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Seegrid Corporation, the premier provider of vision-guided industrial mobile robots, today announced it has launched solutions in the material handling industry aimed at delivering unparalleled ROI for manufacturers and distributors. The emergence of Seegrid in the industry provides the only industrial mobile robots with the ability to navigate their environment without magnetic tapes, guide wires or lasers.
Seegrid’s Industrial Mobile Robotics (IMR) technology provides early-stage capabilities of autonomous robot behavior with Sense, Move, Analyze, Interact and Repeat capabilities, providing a real difference from today’s AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles). The result--AGV-like competence with greater flexibility at a considerably lower cost. IMR-enabled robots provide WalkThroughThenWorkTM capabilities, providing an operator with the ability to simply and easily instruct the robot along a desired path, adding behaviors such as horns and stop stations, usually in minutes. Seegrid robots literally come straight off the truck; an operator quickly inputs the path and the robot is immediately productive.
The company, which brings together three decades of development, experience and expertise, was founded by Hans Moravec, PhD, world-renowned robotic research scientist, and Scott Friedman, MD, a highly successful software entrepreneur.
Friedman’s leadership experience and entrepreneurial energy help make Seegrid’s IMR technology a commercially available reality. Prior to Seegrid, he co-founded CareFlow|Net, an enterprise medical software company. CareFlow|Net was purchased by a division of Philips Electronics NV in 2003. Friedman has an MD from West Virginia University and a BA from the University of Michigan, Honors College.
Moravec is a former Research Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Lab at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His academic work has been funded by, among others, the Office of Naval Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His books, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, 1988, and Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, 1998, consider the implications of evolving robot intelligence. Moravec has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, an MSc in Computer Science from University of Western Ontario, and a BSc in Mathematics from Acadia University.