'모티브 로보틱스', 4족 이동형 모듈러 로봇 개발 VIDEO: RoboMantis to be shown at IROS 2019, now available with enhancements

RoboMantis to be shown at IROS 2019, now available with enhancements

By The Robot Report Staff | November 3, 2019

MACAU, China — At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems here this week, Motiv Robotics Inc. will be showing its RoboMantis mobile robot platform. The Pasadena, Calif.-based company said RoboMantis has newly enhanced capabilities and is available now.

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'모티브 로보틱스', 4족 이동형 모듈러 로봇 개발 '2019 IROS'에서 발표       미 캘리포니아에 위치한 ‘모티브 로보틱스(Motiv Robotics)’가 4개의 다리와 매니퓰레이터를 갖춘 이동형 모듈러 로봇 ‘로봇맨티스(RobotMantis)’를 개발했다고 ‘더 로봇 리포트’가 보도했다. 모티브 로보틱스는 지난 2015년 DARPA 로봇 챌린지 참여를 위해 NASA 제트추진연구소(JPL)가 제작한 ‘로보시미언(RoboSimian)’의 기술을 라이센스받아 로봇맨티스를 제작했다. 이 로봇은 모듈러 구조를 갖춘 4족 로봇으로, 다리 부분에 바퀴를 장착하고 있다. 로봇의 상단에는 매니퓰레이터를 설치했다. 로봇맨티스는 '에너지드 테크놀로지스(Energid Technologies)'의 액틴(Actin) 소프트웨어 개발키트(SDK)를 설치할 수 있으며 로봇운영체제(ROS)를 채택하고 있다. 모티브 로보틱스는 “로봇맨티스가 GPU 기반의 온보드 컴퓨팅을 활용해 빠른 SLAM 운영을 지원하며 템플릿 기반의 반자율 작업 실행이 가능하다”고 설명했다. 반자율 로봇 시스템은 연구용, 농업, 국방, 산업계의 검사 업무, 광업 등 분야에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 로봇맨티스는 4일 마카오에서 개막한 IEEE 주최 ‘2019 IROS(Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)’에서 발표될 예정이다. 장길수  ksjang@irobotnews.com 로봇신문사

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Motiv Robotics was founded in 2015. It licensed technology from the RoboSimian built for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

Motiv makes robotics grippers, manipulator arms, and RoboMantis, which has up to four limbs and two manipulators and can carry a variety of payloads. The modular robot was first displayed at CES 2018, and it can carry gear, additional sensors, or mission-specific equipment.

The mobile robot’s “on-board computation with an advanced GPU enables rapid SLAM operations, as well as affordance template-based semi-autonomous task execution,” said Motiv. The semi-autonomous system is designed for applications such as academic research, agriculture, defense, industrial inspection, and mining, according to the company.

Updates for developers, functionality

RoboMantis now includes Energid Technologies Corp.‘s Actin software development kit (SDK) as an add-on. The robot uses the Robot Operating System (ROS) and seamlessly integrates object tracking while also controlling “dozens of degrees of freedom,” claimed Motiv Robotics.

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“High-performance actuators coupled with near-real-time control means that teleoperation or automated tasks are simpler than ever to implement using RoboMantis as a remote tool able to perform complex tasks in complex and complicated, structured, and unstructured environments,” said the company.

In addition, RoboMantis’ onboard computing capacity enables it to operate in network-denied locations, said Motiv.

“Part of having a robotic architecture that is modular and scalable is having options for customers that fit their specific needs,” stated Chris Thayer, CEO at Motiv Robotics. “Enhancement options, such as the Actin add-on for the RoboMantis, greatly expand our ability to meet our customers’ wide-ranging needs.”

RoboMantis available now

RoboMantis is available now from Motiv Robotics. The robot will be on display at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019 put on by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ).

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