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Burkhard Boeckem of Hexagon defines physical AI as AI that lets autonomous systems such as drones and robots perceive, reason and act in the real world.
“Physical AI lets autonomous systems like drones or robot perceive, understand, reason, and performs actions in the real world.”
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Boeckem says physical AI should be grounded using calibrated sensors, verified maps and accurate reality capture to build an exact digital-twin replica of the real world.
“you use calibrated sensors, verified maps, do accurate reality capture in order to, uh, create a exact replica of the real world into digital twin.”
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When Hexagon launched its humanoid, it demonstrated the robot scanning a car door for defects with a laser scanner.
“our humanoid scanning, um, uh, with a with a laser scanner, uh, the um, the the door of a of a car for for defects.”
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Hexagon's humanoid project built on its earlier experience with autonomous drones and quadruped robot dogs.
“our our humanoid project, and it was basically based off of our experience. We made with, uh, um, autonomous drones”
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Boeckem says Nvidia is a long-standing partner of Hexagon in physical AI.
“as Nvidia is a good partner for for us. We have been on the trajectory trajectory, uh, with them, um, for for a longer time now.”
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Hexagon has a division called manufacturing intelligence that is working toward lights-out manufacturing, where factories run without humans.
“We have a division that calls is called manufacturing intelligence, and they're working towards what is called, uh, lights of manufacturing”
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Hexagon developed scanners for robot dogs, which sometimes failed at tasks such as pushing an elevator button.
“and we developed scanners that went on on on on robot dogs. It sometimes, um, did not work because there was an elevator button to to push,”
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