Firecrux R&D: teaching a humanoid robot to work, one approved skill at a time
After years of AI on production lines, from X-ray inspection to production planning across factories, we are taking Firecrux AIRE into the physical world. In our own R&D we assemble, calibrate and teach a humanoid robot, so that one day it can take over repetitive work on a production line. It is research: the robot learns on a safety hoist and does not work on any line yet.
The challenge
On a production line, a robot’s mistake is not a false alarm on a screen: it is a fall, a dropped part or a collision. So the robot has to learn where mistakes are cheap, and nothing it learns may reach real work without a check by a person.
What we built
- The robot is assembled and calibrated by our own team.
- Its first movements run on a safety hoist, so a fall costs nothing while it learns.
- In training sessions we teach it movements and simple tasks, step by step.
- Control runs through Firecrux AIRE: it reads the robot’s sensors, decides and acts in real time.
How it works
Every new skill goes the same way: we teach it in a training session with the robot on the hoist, and a person approves it before the robot uses it.
How robots learn from demonstrations, and which models now do it, is the subject of robots that learn by being shown.
What comes next
- Repeatable tasks on a test station.
- Then a pilot on a real production line, with a manufacturer who wants to be first. We are looking for that partner now.