{"id":92753,"date":"2019-06-27T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/artificial-intelligence-controls-robotic-arm-to-pack-boxes-and-cut-costs"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:05:33","slug":"artificial-intelligence-controls-robotic-arm-to-pack-boxes-and-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/artificial-intelligence-controls-robotic-arm-to-pack-boxes-and-cut-costs","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-controls-robotic-arm-to-pack-boxes-and-cut-costs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can achieve low-cost, automated solutions that are easily deployable. The key is to make minimal but effective hardware choices and focus on robust algorithms and software,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/faculty\/kostas-bekris\" target=\"_blank\">Kostas Bekris<\/a>, an associate professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sas.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/newbrunswick.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rutgers University-New Brunswick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bekris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/faculty\/abdeslam-boularias\" target=\"_blank\">Abdeslam Boularias<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.rutgers.edu\/faculty\/jingjin-yu\" target=\"_blank\">Jingjin Yu<\/a>, both assistant professors of computer science, formed a team to deal with multiple aspects of the robot packing problem in an integrated way through hardware, 3D perception and robust motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money. \u201cWe can achieve low-cost, automated solutions that are easily deployable. The key is to make minimal but effective hardware choices and focus on robust algorithms and software,\u201d said the study\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}