Contoro is at the cutting-edge of robotics, artificial intelligence, and the interface of humans and machines.
Our robotic managed service is a game-changer for market acceptance of robotic labor.
Human-in-the-loop teleoperation
With human intelligence, our solution can solve edge cases that AI fails to handle. Contoro uniquely utilizes our exoskeleton, Symphony, as part of our remote support service. Symphony has unique features that make it a very attractive device for controlling another robot. First of all, it’s an exoskeleton. Wearing the device is the most convenient and intuitive way to interpret human intentions.
Symphony has been extensively developed, tested and improved for the past 10 years through collaborations with research organizations including NASA, NSF, UT Austin, and Harmonic Bionics (Sister company of Contoro Robotics). Symphony has 9 degrees of freedom for one arm, which makes it easy and comfortable for the teleoperator to produce unhindered motion.
Symphony produces haptic force feedback to the teleoperator, which is very useful information in force-sensitive environments. The most intuitive way to avoid damage is by enabling the teleoperator to feel the robot touching a box or when the robotic arm gets too close to the walls of a container.
AI-powered robotic operating system with advanced sensors
Our robots see the world through multiple cameras and sensors. Through these cameras, we extract crucial information about the container to unload, such as where the walls are, where the boxes are, how they are stacked, and how big they are. All this information is used to build a virtual environment that the robot can understand.
Once a container has been mapped by our sensors and cameras, our AI-powered robotic operating system generates collision free paths for the robotic arms, with optimized trajectories based on various factors like box condition or box weight.
Robotic arms and end-effectors
Contoro’s robots are fully self-contained. They have batteries, vacuum generator, computers, and all the necessary hardware components embedded inside. This design enables easy set up in any environment, and they can be removed just as easily. Our robots are mobile and can navigate on four wheels to move in all directions. They can continuously work for 8 hours and only require 2 hours of charging time.
Our robot arm has 2.5m of reach and is able to reach all four corners of the most frequently handled shipping and truck container sizes: standard and high cube.
To grasp boxes, we have designed our own end-effectors with custom gripper technology. Our current gripper can handle boxes anywhere between 12 to 22 inches in size, and up to 40 pounds. This capability will soon increase to support boxes 8 to 30 inches in size and up to 50 pounds.
