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  • Abel David
  • February 3, 2021

The Role of Autonomous Mobile Robots in a Post-pandemic World

The vision of Robots and Humans working together has been popularized by numerous Hollywood movies, comic books and the media for many decades now. Success stories about the application of automation in the manufacturing industry date back to the early 1980’s, when welding robots demonstrated efficiency and resilience to deliver on time and increased the overall supply. And ever since, robots have been used for a variety of applications such as painting, assembly, disassembly, pick and place for printed circuit boards, material handling, product inspection, and testing, all accomplished with high speed and precision.

In the past few years, however, the world is seeing a significant shift towards AI-enabled robots that are changing the game by bringing various levels of autonomy into the picture. If we consider the example of the labor-intensive task of warehouse piece picking,  AI-enabled robots are learning to handle millions of objects with minimum help from humans. What once required individual item registration and programming of robots, can now be accomplished with self-directing or autonomous robots using deep learning algorithms. This in turn, is helping industries cut costs and improve profits in the long run.

Further, with the dawn of COVID-19, the way we patronize restaurants and shops and see our doctors has changed drastically. From collaborative robots (co-robots) to robots with high levels of autonomy, the trend continues towards the application of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) in every industry and retail setting; more so as societies are restructuring places of work and pleasure to minimize human contact. The accelerated adoption of AMRs is being seen in many frontline roles from spraying disinfectants to delivering & serving food to customers, in outdoor and indoor urban hotspots. A key advantage of using AMRs is that they are able to reliably do these repetitive physical tasks when many workers aren’t safely able to or willing to set foot in these areas.  

As AMRs are becoming more and more competent, a few popular ones that are gaining traction during this pandemic are discussed below.

TELEPRESENCE ROBOT

Telepresence Robots or Virtual Assistance Robots, now more than ever, are revolutionizing the way we work or learn remotely. They enable telecommuters, doctors, remote workers, and students to feel more connected to their colleagues by giving them a physical presence where they can’t be in person.

Image Credit: Using robots to enable patients to be inspected remotely 

In recent times, Telepresence robots are being put to use to enable interactions with COVID-19 patients in isolation wards. These semi-autonomous robots could be teleoperated over the Wi-Fi, to visit the patients and provide a live video link to their loved ones or to deliver their food and medication.

DISINFECTANT ROBOT 

In the post pandemic world, disinfecting shared public places has been a tricky problem to solve. A non-intrusive solution widely adopted in recent times is UV-C light, but due to its adverse effects on human skin, trolleying it would look somewhat like the image below.

Image credit: UV-C based disinfection trolley by rapid cleaning of hospital environment, helping in the fight against COVID-19

Enter AMR, mounted with a UV-C lamp as a payload, which would traverse autonomously in a designated area.

Image Credit: Weston Robot

This is accomplished by using the mobile app where the user creates a map of the area and chooses the waypoints for the robot to traverse. The robot then follows the waypoints and stops at each waypoint, till the disinfection job is done. Also, it returns to the charging station once the battery is below a threshold eliminating the need for human intervention. A swarm of these robots could be used in and around the areas where the most interactions occur such as hospitals, railway stations, airports, etc.

An intrusive solution would be to air-blast disinfectant liquids similar to the ones used in agricultural spraying, to increase the chlorine content in the air and reduce the possibility of aerosol transmission.

Image Credit: Robots deployed to disinfect open spaces

This fully autonomous solution is basically an AMR, mounted with a sprayer mechanism, which can navigate to the decontamination area using pre-built maps giving  the technical staff less exposure to these highly concentrated chemicals while working in an entirely safe and risk-free environment. The range of its spray devices can reach up-to 30 feet.

LAST-MILE DELIVERY ROBOTS

As door delivery businesses saw a huge increase in demand during the pandemic, Last-Mile delivery robots found application as a reliable and safe contactless delivery system. These robots are an alternative to human food delivery drivers from companies like Uber Eats and DoorDash, which perform tasks that a person cannot do safely.

These companies have created and deployed cool new robots with the intelligence to navigate city streets to deliver orders from selected restaurants to the customer location using a mobile app, while avoiding dynamic obstacles like pedestrians.

Image Credit: Autonomous delivery robot

The robot’s body is equipped with a storage bin with a locking compartment where the restaurant stores the delivery package and the bin only unlocks upon authentication by the customer at her location during delivery. Typically, these robots are equipped with cameras and computer vision driven by machine learning. They can detect and classify what they see, and tell the difference between a car, a person, or a wall.

While these robots are definitely cool tech; procuring, running and maintaining fleets of robots can be prohibitively expensive. To circumvent this, the solution that small restaurant owners are turning to is the clever ‘Robot-as-a-Service’(RaaS) business model for food delivery, which is becoming more crucial as Covid-19 reshapes the gig economy.

ROBOT AS A SERVICE

Many are now familiar with the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS) or Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) where the intent is to democratize technology while lowering the barrier to entry for businesses, large and small alike.

One of the new areas, this philosophy is becoming more prevalent, is “Robot as a Service” (RaaS), a cloud-based “robotic rental” solution used for both B2B or B2C businesses.  

RaaS takes the capabilities of robotics and removes the upfront cost of robot installation with large amounts of computing power, utilities, and knowledge.  And so, small- and medium-sized businesses are increasingly experimenting with RaaS because of its flexibility, scalability, and lower cost of entry compared to traditional robotics programs.

For example, finding sufficient  numbers of workers in a warehouse, for online retailers during seasonal surges is quite the challenge. With the RaaS model, these seasonal labor shortcomings can be mitigated without investing in equipment that won’t be used in slower periods while still being able to quickly scale up to meet the high demand.

RaaS might be the answer for businesses, trying to figure out how to improve productivity or reduce risk, but always thought, robots were out of their price range.

ROBOTICS AT IGNITARIUM

Robotics and in particular Autonomous Mobile Robots is an area where Ignitarium has been developing technology solutions for the warehouse use cases. Robotics as a theme started as a R&D thread to leverage the existing skills in computer vision and AI/ML. In the past year, we have demonstrated various use cases on sensor fusion, integration of Lidars & Radars, visual odometry using RGB-D Cameras, path planning, obstacle avoidance, integrating with deep learning modules for object Classification / Detection / Tracking. Our vision is to create a software package which is hardware agnostic, for use  across hardware platforms with minimal customization.  

CONCLUSION

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) such as Telepresence, Disinfectant, Last-mile delivery robots. Roboticists are also seeing adaptation of AMRs to new niches and are exploring new avenues. Although the robotics wave is changing the way services and products are sold, there are still challenges to overcome like the amount of customization required, both in hardware and software for the robots to adapt to customer specific needs. Regardless of the hurdles, RaaS will be the inevitable solution many organizations seek either with hardware & software or software-only flavors.

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      SONA MATHEW Director – Human Resources

      SONA MATHEW

      AVP – Human Resources

      Sona heads Human Resource functions - Employee Engagement, HR Operations and Learning & Development – at Ignitarium. Her expertise include deep and broad experience in strategic people initiatives, performance management, talent transformation, talent acquisition, people engagement & compliance in the Information Technology & Services industry.

       

      Prior to Ignitarium, Sona has had held diverse HR responsibilities at Litmus7, Cognizant and Wipro.

       

      Sona graduated in Commerce from St. Xaviers College and did her MBA in HR from PSG College of Technology.

       

      ASHWIN RAMACHANDRAN

      Vice President - Sales

      As VP of Sales, Ashwin is responsible for Ignitarium’s go-to-market strategy, business, client relationships, and customer success in the Americas. He brings in over a couple of decades of experience, mainly in the product engineering space with customers from a wide spectrum of industries, especially in the Hi-Tech/semiconductor and telecom verticals.

       

      Ashwin has worked with the likes of Wipro, GlobalLogic, and Mastek, wherein unconventional and creative business models were used to bring in non-linear revenue. He has strategically diversified, de-risked, and grown his portfolios during his sales career.

       

      Ashwin strongly believes in the customer-first approach and works to add value and enhance the experiences of our customers.

       

      AZIF SALY Director – Sales

      AZIF SALY

      Vice President – Sales & Business Development

      Azif is responsible for go-to-market strategy, business development and sales at Ignitarium. Azif has over 14 years of cross-functional experience in the semiconductor product & service spaces and has held senior positions in global client management, strategic account management and business development. An IIM-K alumnus, he has been associated with Wipro, Nokia and Sankalp in the past.

       

      Azif handled key accounts and sales process initiatives at Sankalp Semiconductors. Azif has pursued entrepreneurial interests in the past and was associated with multiple start-ups in various executive roles. His start-up was successful in raising seed funds from Nokia, India. During his tenure at Nokia, he played a key role in driving product evangelism and customer success functions for the multimedia division.

       

      At Wipro, he was involved in customer engagement with global customers in APAC and US.

       

      RAJU KUNNATH Vice President – Enterprise & Mobility

      RAJU KUNNATH

      Distinguished Engineer – Digital

      At Ignitarium, Raju's charter is to architect world class Digital solutions at the confluence of Edge, Cloud and Analytics. Raju has over 25 years of experience in the field of Telecom, Mobility and Cloud. Prior to Ignitarium, he worked at Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. and Sasken Communication Technologies in various leadership positions and was responsible for the delivery of various developer platforms and products.

       

      Raju graduated in Electronics Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin and has an Executive Post Graduate Program (EPGP) in Strategy and Finance from IIM Kozhikode.

       

      PRADEEP SUKUMARAN Vice President – Business Strategy & Marketing

      PRADEEP SUKUMARAN

      Senior Vice President - Software Engineering

      Pradeep heads the Software Engineering division, with a charter to build and grow a world-beating delivery team. He is responsible for all the software functions, which includes embedded & automotive software, multimedia, and AI & Digital services

      At Ignitarium, he was previously part of the sales and marketing team with a special focus on generating a sales pipeline for Vision Intelligence products and services, working with worldwide field sales & partner ecosystems in the U.S  Europe, and APAC.

      Prior to joining Ignitarium in 2017, Pradeep was Senior Solutions Architect at Open-Silicon, an ASIC design house. At Open-Silicon, where he spent a good five years, Pradeep was responsible for Front-end, FPGA, and embedded SW business development, marketing & technical sales and also drove the IoT R&D roadmap. Pradeep started his professional career in 2000 at Sasken, where he worked for 11 years, primarily as an embedded multimedia expert, and then went on to lead the Multimedia software IP team.

      Pradeep is a graduate in Electronics & Communication from RVCE, Bangalore.

       

      SUJEET SREENIVASAN Vice President – Embedded

      SUJEET SREENIVASAN

      Senior Vice President – Automotive Technology

       

      Sujeet is responsible for driving innovation in Automotive software, identifying Automotive technology trends and advancements, evaluating their potential impact, and development of solutions to meet the needs of our Automotive customers.

      At Ignitarium, he was previously responsible for the growth and P&L of the Embedded Business unit focusing on Multimedia, Automotive, and Platform software.

      Prior to joining Ignitarium in 2016, Sujeet has had a career spanning more than 16 years at Wipro. During this stint, he has played diverse roles from Solution Architect to Presales Lead covering various domains. His technical expertise lies in the areas of Telecom, Embedded Systems, Wireless, Networking, SoC modeling, and Automotive. He has been honored as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Wipro and has multiple patents granted in the areas of Networking and IoT Security.

      Sujeet holds a degree in Computer Science from Government Engineering College, Thrissur.

       

      RAJIN RAVIMONY Distinguished Engineer

      RAJIN RAVIMONY

      Distinguished Engineer

       

      At Ignitarium, Rajin plays the role of Distinguished Engineer for complex SoCs and systems. He's an expert in ARM-based designs having architected more than a dozen SoCs and played hands-on design roles in several tens more. His core areas of specialization include security and functional safety architecture (IEC61508 and ISO26262) of automotive systems, RTL implementation of math intensive signal processing blocks as well as design of video processing and related multimedia blocks.

       

      Prior to Ignitarium, Rajin worked at Wipro Technologies for 14 years where he held roles of architect and consultant for several VLSI designs in the automotive and consumer domains.

       

      Rajin holds an MS in Micro-electronics from BITS Pilani.

       

      SIBY ABRAHAM Executive Vice President, Strategy

      SIBY ABRAHAM

      Executive Vice President, Strategy

       

      As EVP, of Strategy at Ignitarium, Siby anchors multiple functions spanning investor community relations, business growth, technology initiatives as well and operational excellence.

       

      Siby has over 31 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his last role at Wipro Technologies, he headed the Semiconductor Industry Practice Group where he was responsible for business growth and engineering delivery for all of Wipro’s semiconductor customers. Prior to that, he held a vast array of crucial roles at Wipro including Chief Technologist & Vice President, CTO Office, Global Delivery Head for Product Engineering Services, Business Head of Semiconductor & Consumer Electronics, and Head of Unified Competency Framework. He was instrumental in growing Wipro’s semiconductor business to over $100 million within 5 years and turning around its Consumer Electronics business in less than 2 years. In addition, he was the Engineering Manager for Enthink Inc., a semiconductor IP-focused subsidiary of Wipro. Prior to that, Siby was the Technical Lead for several of the most prestigious system engineering projects executed by Wipro R&D.

       

      Siby has held a host of deeply impactful positions, which included representing Wipro in various World Economic Forum working groups on Industrial IOT and as a member of IEEE’s IOT Steering Committee.

       

      He completed his MTech. in Electrical Engineering (Information and Control) from IIT, Kanpur and his BTech. from NIT, Calicut

       

      SUDIP NANDY

      Board Member

       

      An accomplished leader with over 40 years of experience, Sudip has helped build and grow companies in India, the US and the UK.

      He has held the post of Independent Director and Board Member for several organizations like Redington Limited, Excelra, Artison Agrotech, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Liquid Hub Inc. and ResultsCX.

      Most recently, Sudip was a Senior Advisor at ChrysCapital, a private equity firm where he has also been the Managing Director and Operating Partner for IT for the past 5 years. During his tenure, he has been Executive Chairman of California-headquartered Infogain Corporation and the non-Exec Chair on the board of a pioneering electric-2-wheeler company Ampere Vehicles, which is now a brand of Greaves Cotton Ltd.

      Earlier on in his career, Sudip has been the CEO and then Chairman India for Aricent. Prior to that, he had spent 25+ years in Wipro where he has been the Head of US business, Engineering R&D Services, and later the Head of EU Operations.

      Sudip is an active investor in several interesting startups in India and overseas, which mostly use technology for the social good, encompassing hyperlocal, healthcare, rural development, farmer support and e2W ecosystem. He also spends time as a coach and mentor for several CEOs in this role.

       

      SUJEETH JOSEPH Chief Product Officer

      SUJEETH JOSEPH

      Chief Technology Officer

       

      As CTO, Sujeeth is responsible for defining the technology roadmap, driving IP & solution development, and transitioning these technology components into practically deployable product engineering use cases.

       

      With a career spanning over 30+ years, Sujeeth Joseph is a semiconductor industry veteran in the SoC, System and Product architecture space. At SanDisk India, he was Director of Architecture for the USD $2B Removable Products Group. Simultaneously, he also headed the SanDisk India Patenting function, the Retail Competitive Analysis Group and drove academic research programs with premier Indian academic Institutes. Prior to SanDisk, he was Chief Architect of the Semiconductor & Systems BU (SnS) of Wipro Technologies. Over a 19-year career at Wipro, he has played hands-on and leadership roles across all phases of the ASIC and System design flow.

       

      He graduated in Electronics Engineering from Bombay University in 1991.

       

      SUJITH MATHEW IYPE Co-founder & CTO

      SUJITH MATHEW IYPE

      Co-founder & COO

       

      As Ignitarium's Co-founder and COO, Sujith is responsible for driving the operational efficiency and streamlining process across the organization. He is also responsible for the growth and P&L of the Semiconductor Business Unit.

       

      Apart from establishing a compelling story in VLSI, Sujith was responsible for Ignitarium's foray into nascent technology areas like AI, ML, Computer Vision, and IoT, nurturing them in our R&D Lab - "The Crucible".

       

      Prior to founding Ignitarium, Sujith played the role of a VLSI architect at Wipro Technologies for 13 years. In true hands-on mode, he has built ASICs and FPGAs for the Multimedia, Telecommunication, and Healthcare domains and has provided technical leadership for many flagship projects executed by Wipro.

       

      Sujith graduated from NIT - Calicut in the year 2000 in Electronics and Communications Engineering and thereafter he has successfully completed a one-year executive program in Business Management from IIM Calcutta.

       

      RAMESH SHANMUGHAM Co-founder & COO

      RAMESH SHANMUGHAM

      Co-founder & CRO

      As Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Ignitarium, Ramesh has been responsible for global business and marketing as well as building trusted customer relationships upholding the company's core values.

      Ramesh has over 25 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry covering all aspects of IC design. Prior to Ignitarium, Ramesh was a key member of the senior management team of the semiconductor division at Wipro Technologies. Ramesh has played key roles in Semiconductor Delivery and Pre-sales at a global level.

      Ramesh graduated in Electronics Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, and has a Postgraduate degree in Microelectronics from BITS Pilani.