Sanctuary AI’s general-purpose robotic Phoenix™, just lately acknowledged as one in every of TIME journal’s “Greatest Innovations of 2023,” can carry out a large number of labor duties.
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic funding, by way of Accenture Ventures, in Sanctuary AI, a developer of humanoid general-purpose robots which are powered by AI and might carry out all kinds of labor duties shortly, safely and successfully.
“AI-powered humanoid robots are important to reinventing work and supporting human employees as labor scarcity is turning into a difficulty in lots of nations and industries,” mentioned Joe Lui, Accenture’s world superior automation and robotics lead. “Sanctuary AI’s superior AI platform trains robots to react to their atmosphere and carry out new duties with precision in a really brief time. We see enormous potential for his or her robots in publish and parcel, manufacturing, retail and logistics warehousing operations, the place they may complement and collaborate with human employees and automate duties that conventional robotics cannot.”
Sanctuary AI’s general-purpose robotic Phoenix™, just lately acknowledged as one in every of TIME journal’s “Greatest Innovations of 2023,” can carry out a large number of labor duties. As an example, at a Mark’s retail retailer in Langley, BC, Canada, Phoenix has carried out greater than 100 duties, together with selecting and packing merchandise, and accurately cleansing, tagging, labeling and folding gadgets, with robotic fingers that rival human hand dexterity and effective manipulation. Phoenix is powered by the corporate’s AI management system, Carbon™, which mimics subsystems discovered within the human mind, resembling reminiscence, sight, sound and contact, and interprets pure language into motion in the true world.
Geordie Rose, chief govt officer and co-founder of Sanctuary AI, mentioned: “Robots with human-like intelligence will utterly rework the workforce of the long run. By combining Accenture’s experience in disruptive expertise with Sanctuary AI’s industry-leading robotics, we may help among the largest firms on the earth handle this transformation and supply the perfect options for its shoppers.”
Accenture’s Expertise Imaginative and prescient 2024 report discovered that 95% of executives surveyed agree that making expertise extra human will massively develop the alternatives of each {industry}. The report requires taking a balanced, ‘human by design’ strategy that ensures firms use applied sciences pretty and responsibly. Sanctuary AI is making this a actuality by embedding Explainable AI within the Phoenix robotic with a purpose to function reasoning, activity and movement plans that may be outlined and audited.
Accenture has beforehand invested in different robotics areas, for instance, by way of Accenture Alpha Automation, a just lately fashioned three way partnership with Japanese robotics chief Mujin, and acquisitions of Eclipse Automation in Canada and Pollux in Brazil. Sanctuary AI is the newest firm to hitch Accenture Ventures’ Undertaking Highlight, an engagement and funding program that connects rising expertise startups with Accenture’s International 2000 shopper base with a purpose to fill strategic innovation gaps. Undertaking Highlight affords in depth entry to Accenture’s area experience and enterprise shoppers, serving to startups harness human creativity and ship on the promise of their expertise.
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About Sanctuary AI Based in 2018, Sanctuary AI is a multi-award-winning firm based mostly in Vancouver, Canada. Sanctuary AI is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence generally objective robots that may assist us work extra safely, effectively, and sustainably, serving to to deal with the labor challenges dealing with many organizations at the moment. Sanctuary AI’s rising listing of shoppers and buyers represents all kinds of industries throughout Canada, the US, and different nations world wide.
Members of the Sanctuary crew based D-Wave (a pioneer within the quantum computing {industry}), Kindred (first use of reinforcement studying in a manufacturing robotic), and the Inventive Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary methodology for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). With expertise at startups and expertise leaders resembling Amazon, Microsoft, and Softbank Robotics, the crew has expertise launching market-defining improvements rooted in beforehand unsolved and deep scientific issues.
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