Polish firm to demonstrate fully autonomous warehouse robot with new collaborations. The robot can also detect safety hazards such as spills or blocked exits, and autonomously execute corrective actions. A Polish company is set to demonstrate the first fully autonomous warehouse robot powered exclusively by AMD Ryzen AI processors. The robot leverages Agentic AI capabilities to dynamically plan and execute tasks in real time without reliance on hard-coded scripts. Robotec.ai has collaborated with AMD and Liquid AI to integrate multiple solutions into the robot. The company claims that the robot seamlessly combines perception, reasoning, and natural language understanding to interpret commands as it's powered by Liquid AI's next-generation LFM2 Vision Language Models. The robot can also detect safety hazards such as spills or blocked exits, and autonomously execute corrective actions. "We have collaborated with AMD and Liquid AI to work on a reasoning robot that intelligently responds to the changing environment around it," said the company in a new statement. "The robot takes the word autonomy to a whole new level: it can interpret commands, detect safety hazards, and autonomously execute corrective actions." The Robotec.ai claims that the collaboration unlocks the full potential of the platform, thanks to extensive testing in simulated environments. Simulation, created with open 3D engine, supports validation of embedded AI on real hardware, avoiding the costs and risks of physical testing. It is a step towards the future of reasoning robots that will intelligently respond to the changing environment around them. Physical intelligence will create immense value through efficient platforms like mobile manipulators, combined with agentic AI that integrates foundation models and state-of-the-art, reliable robotics. Robot can serve as an inspection agent. With this new demonstration, a flexible mobile robot, powered by agentic AI that is running on AMD silicon, operates within a warehouse with mixed traffic. It completes tasks specified by humans using natural language, and adapts to changing conditions through replanning. The robot also serves as an inspection agent, alerting operators whenever unexpected occurrences or safety issues are detected in the warehouse area, according to a press release. The company claims that the AMD processor proves to be an excellent "brain" for agentic AI while also capable of running the robotics software stack in parallel. It is fast, compact, and efficient, with incredible performance in both speed and power efficiency, as measured by transparent metrics such as tokens, latency, and throughput. Initially demonstrated on an AMD Ryzen processor, Robotec.ai plans to transition to an AMD embedded x86 solution in the near future. Robotec.ai also pointed out that at the core of this new robotic system is Liquid AI's LFM2-VL, a next-generation Vision Language Model designed for embedded, real-time intelligence. Compact yet powerful, it integrates perception, reasoning, and language understanding into a single multimodal foundation model optimized for AMD hardware. To tailor the model for agentic robotics downstream tasks, Liquid leveraged simulation-derived synthetic data provided by Robotec, enabling domain-specific fine-tuning and robustness in complex industrial environments. LFM2-VL interprets visual scenes, performs context-aware reasoning, and plans goal-driven actions entirely on-device - eliminating latency and cloud dependency. Its efficiency and responsiveness enable the robot to operate safely and autonomously in dynamic industrial environments, as per the release. Get the latest in engineering, tech, space & science - delivered daily to your inbox. Prabhat, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, is a tech and defense journalist. While he enjoys writing on modern weapons and emerging tech, he has also reported on global politics and business. He has been previously associated with well-known media houses, including the International Business Times (Singapore Edition) and ANI.

Recent developments across the industry to change licenses and increase fees for developers leads to new interest in the open source engine, which offers industry-first automations and tightest integration with Robotics Operating SystemSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF), home of a vibrant, diverse community focused on building a first-class, open source engine for real-time 3D development, today announced the release of 23.10, the latest version of the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), bringing new usability and performance improvements and capabilities for developing high-fidelity robotics simulations and games. O3DE 23.10 also offers new support for ARM64 on Linux, significantly reducing costs for developers.The latest release represents high-impact contributions and offers several improvements aiming to make it easier for developers, artists and content creators to build 3D simulations for AAA games, robotics simulations and various other 3D applications across AI, metaverse, digital twin, automotive, healthcare and more. New features, particularly those for robotics simulations and new automations that accelerate developer work, will be on display at ROSCon on October 18-22, 2023 in New Orleans. Details about O3DE's ROSCon session and activities can be read in its recent blog.O3DE offers tightest ROS2 integration in the industry, many new improvements and features focus on robotics simulationsBy virtue of the engine's modularity, developers can customize it for specific applications and use cases, including robotics. Robotics developers have significantly diverse feature set requirements and implementation trade-offs, and O3DE's direct integration with the Robot Operating System (ROS), which doesn't require bridges nor wrappers, enables ROS developers to address these varied requirements while streamlining development