The second day of Automate 2023 in Detroit was a huge success! The Control Automation engineering and sales team met with a number of companies that were demonstrating their exciting innovations.
ForwardX is a mobile robotics manufacturer with an extensive lineup of platforms. The payloads are usually mounted on the top, but the systems include automated forklifts for shelving products. One of the most recent product announcements from ForwardX is the Lynx, with payload capacities of up to 1500 kg.
These AMRs use a combination of cameras and AI processing to evaluate obstacles and continuously improve the analysis of the surroundings. In the past, path planning was a purely algorithmic process, but recent years have brought massive improvement in the field of machine learning to enhance the adaptive ability of object sensing.
