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INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS

By even automating the AI recognition imagery can automatically detect new parts or map out new grinding
programming, Huang said this ensures that the SMEs can paths on its own, enabling companies to roll out flexible
reduce the need to hire new technical talent to maintain low-volume high-mix production quickly.
and train the AI systems. This resolves the issue where
research and academia-designed AI systems cannot meet The next challenges for ITRI are two-fold, the first
the requirements for industry-use. being to improve both technologies further, Huang said,
pointing out that the difference between, say, 80% and
The design for RobotSmith also aims to help companies 85% accuracy lies in optimizing and tuning the program
retain diverse manufacturing without the need to halt the and robots. In the past, achieving the current technologies
assembly line to switch out equipment. It is also the first would take several years, but with the experience gained,
advanced robotic grinding and polishing system, reducing Huang believes they would shorten the R&D gap. The
actual grinding error by simulating the robot’s grinding path second is finding system integrators (SI) to take ITRI’s
by combining the cyber-physical system (CPS) with force technology and close the gap with companies in need
sensors. The system maps out the robot’s operational path of such new systems, Huang said. ITRI was the main
to lower the error margin for real-time grinding operations, contributor of new system-based solutions in the IDB-led
minimalizing it within 1mm. The system’s simulated grinding initiative, where Hiwin Technology became the SI by taking
force is also tested at 80% accuracy. When factories new technologies and offering counseling to hand tool
introduce a new workpiece into the production line, the companies.
assembly line can carry on without halting as the system
can automatically detect and identify the new workpiece.
RobotSmith removes the need for human operators, as it

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