Hexagon Launches AEON Robot With NVIDIA Robotics
Current labour shortages globally represent a significant issue, with more than 50 million open job roles across these industries that manufacturers, logistics, and other industries rely on, which is why Hexagon unveiled AEON – a humanoid robot.
The robot AEON was introduced at the company’s Hexagon LIVE Global conference in North America, and it was a joint development between Hexagon and NVIDIA. Designed specifically for industrial environments, AEON can undertake chores that include asset inspection, part manipulation, reality capture, and variable operator assistance.
AEON is anticipated to be used across a wide range of industries including automotive, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, and warehousing, to help companies automate labour-intensive or precision-based tasks. Its reality capture capability scans environment spaces and assets to provide 3D models which can be captured through Hexagon’s cloud-based Digital Reality platform.
The robot also has capabilities in sorting, inspecting parts for quality, and even manipulating machinery. It utilizes the NVIDIA Isaac platform to give it the simulation to learn these tasks through simulations. And with the simulation first application, AEON was able to learn the limited movement skills in less than a few weeks – something which typically may take months.
NVIDIA provided complete “stack” of robotics technology to develop AEON. That is, AI supercomputers for training the different models, the Omniverse platform for high-fidelity simulation, and the Jetson Orin and IGX Thor computers for real-time actions and safety. These systems allow AEON to adapt to and perform tasks in complicated industrial settings, with very precise accuracy at increased speed.
“AEON is revolutionary for general-purpose robotics,” said Deepu Talla, VP, Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA. “This project is bringing together simulation, AI and robotics to tackle real world problems.”
AEON will soon be piloted in factories or warehouses, where it will scan everything from auto parts to large inventories of storage. All the data it collects will be visualized and shared using Hexagon’s Reality Cloud Studio and NVIDIA Omniverse so that teams can work together on digital twin models and do not have to have heavy infrastructure on-site.
Hexagon expects to further develop AEON’s capacity in the future by utilizing synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning. The purpose of these is to establish a continuous improvement loop for AEON to leverage into becoming smarter and smarter over time.
“Our goal is to build robots that are designed to solve real industrial problems,” said Arnaud Robert, president of Hexagon’s robotics division. “AEON brings that vision into reality.”
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