ABB Robotics adds AI Robot Trainer to OmniCore EyeMotion

ABB Robotics is positioning its latest offering around what it calls physical AI—systems that let robots perceive and act in real time. The company frames robotic AI vision as the bridge between perception and physical action, and says customers need a complete workflow to create, deploy and continuously improve it. The AI Robot Trainer is meant to supply that workflow by tying image acquisition, model training, deployment and optimization into a single industrial loop.

The tool converts real shop floor images into deployable AI vision data and, through automatic collision-free path planning, turns perception directly into robot motion. ABB says the combination of these steps reduces commissioning time by up to 90 percent and cycle time by up to 50 percent. It also combines synthetic and real-world image data with ABB's industrial knowledge, and works with any brand of camera and sensor.

ABB Robotics frames the result as making advanced AI vision development accessible without specialized expertise. A guided workflow and AI chatbot are intended to help system integrators handle changing SKUs, lighting, layouts and object variations, which the company says reduces dependence on AI specialists.