Austrian warehouse automation company KNAPP has set up KNAPP Robotics to develop intelligent robots for logistics, with a new robotics lab in Somerville, Massachusetts, iRobotNews reports, citing Automated Warehouse.
KNAPP Robotics expects 30 to 35 staff at the site by early next year, including software developers, AI specialists and mechatronics and robotics engineers. About 20 will work on software and will come from KNAPP's existing staff. The site near Boston is to work alongside KNAPP's robot centre in Graz, Austria.
The company says its robots use physical AI for piece picking, bin picking and stock counting in warehouses, with its KNAPP Brain platform handling AI, computer vision, grip point calculation and motion planning. KNAPP joined MIT's Industrial Liaison Program this year.
