On 9 June, Kai-Uwe Kaden, our division head and expert for smart systems, enriched Robot Valley Saxony! with exciting insights into machine vision using point cloud processing and artificial intelligence methods.
Under the motto “What you see is what you get? - A novel approach for point cloud segmentation and object detection for human-robot-collaboration”, he demonstrated how a robot can segment and classify point clouds using camera-based detection and intelligent algorithms. Objects are not only clearly recognised as such; thanks to machine learning methods such as semantic segmentation, the robot is also able to specifically distinguish danger zones (such as the blade of a knife) from non-danger zones (such as the knife handle). This enables safe human-machine collaboration in which the robot can safely hand over to a person even objects with an inherent risk of injury, such as a cup of hot tea or a knife with a sharp blade.
“The next big thing in robotics? Robot Valley Saxony!” took place as an online webinar live from Dresden. There were also exciting talks from Fabmatics GmbH, TU Dresden and PowerOn GmbH. We thank #RobotValleySaxony for the invitation and look forward to the continued exchange among experts on topics in robotics and automation!
