Lula is building high-performance computational systems and software designed to unlock the latent potential of existing robots by enabling them see what they manipulate and innately adapt to the unpredictable interactions of close human-robot collaboration. Modern robots are extraordinarily advanced, but to date used primarily for strictly repetitive automation, largely because achieving reactive close-quarter human-robot collaboration in software is challenging. Building on foundational research from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Lula personel are developing a system to simplify the integration of this technology into existing robotic platforms. The effort is to leverage the best of robotics–their super-human precision and repeatability–within a system capable of utilizing the latest deep learning technology alongside the world-class control strategies that have made modern precision manufacturing possible.
