micropsi industries controllers use imitation and transfer learning to pick up knowledge about successful motions from human trainers.

MIRAI: A Vision-Based Robot Control System for Tackling Variance

With MIRAI, industrial robots can handle variance in position, shape, or movement in the workspace. Using artificial intelligence, the MIRAI controller generates robot movements directly and in real-time, as opposed to outputting individual measurements. Deploy MIRAI in assembly, quality inspection, machine tending, contour following, or other applications. MIRAI can be used for multiple steps within a task. It can also be flexibly retrained for new tasks.

Skills are not programmed but trained through human demonstration in a few days — no knowledge of programming or AI necessary. To train a robot, a human performs repeated demonstrations of a task by manually guiding the robot by the robot’s wrist. The movements are recorded by a nearby camera and a force torque sensor are then transformed into a MIRAI skill.