At Chironix, we find that most people know we work with robots. Despite this, we often find ourselves explaining a unique aspect of our work: we're not building robots; we're building the intelligence and behaviours of robots. In other words, we're the psychologists educating robots how to feel(sense), behave and react.
While we use the word ‘psychologist’ playfully, this role for robots **just like for humans** is seriously important. We craft and embed intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI), to create smart and purposeful robots that are more useful, deployable within more complex situations and safer to be around.
Take the below real life example that we are working on with our PilotOS autonomous inspection solution.
Our Inspection robot operates on a shared road with light commercial vehicles (Utes). We need to build in behavioural protocol that will minimise the disruption caused to operations around the robot, with safety at the forefront.
PilotOS Software + Hardware:
Our robot, as shown below, moves into a parked position and pauses operation every three minutes for a period of 30 seconds to allow any flowing traffic to pass by. This behaviour is re-creating overtaking lanes as seen on Australian Highways. This behaviour is instilled into the robot using our PilotOS robot operating software.
The ability for the robot to be taught new behaviours has caused minimal disruption to the surrounding operation. In addition the exact and consistent timing of the parking manoeuvre makes the behaviour predictable to those around it, an important safety consideration.
Using AI to automatically see and detect a vehicle approaching!
Building intelligent robots isn’t as straightforward as it might sound. While off-the-shelf robots are improving rapidly, many robot platforms come with either zero behavioural intelligence or accompanying software that requires significant training to unlock advanced behavioural capability.
That’s where Chironix comes in. We specialise in embedding intelligent behaviours tailored to your unique operational challenges. By partnering with us, businesses gain access to:
