Case-Study: Scaling Navigation and AI on 5G

Scaling Navigation and AI on 5G connected AWS Outpost

We are excited to share our collaboration with Verizon, Corning Incorporated, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the United States providing our mobile robotics and AI platform: For the past year, we have been working together with a team of incredibly talented people from all four companies combining efforts and expertise to innovate in the domain of scalable automation for Industry 4.0.

The joint solution makes use of a fully integrated private 5G network and private Edge platform with AWS Outposts - a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Consequently, we had the opportunity in this project to fully deploy our autonomous navigation and AI stack towards the AWS infrastructure with all of its benefits.

Consequently, we run highly scalable edge-services on AWS Outposts that provide autonomous navigation and advanced environmental sensing "as a Service”. Our solutions make use of computer vision and machine learning models to process sensor data received from autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), then send commands to the AMRs over the ultra-low latency, high-throughput 5G private network. The service can reduce the need for computing hardware and battery capacity on the AMRs and enable near real-time interaction and closed-loop control of the vehicles delivering high-reliability production services within the factory.

The goal has been to demonstrate how to leverage the joint technology to deliver mobile robotics solutions that require advanced AI computer vision functions for a use-case presented by Corning in its Hickory manufacturing plant.

Find more details in Verizon’s press release.

We look forward to taking this solution to the next level with our partners and clients and sharing more details about this collaboration, its rollout, and future products in more detail in the coming weeks.