Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund

Using data and automation to achieve 24/7 production.

Smart Factory

Standard Bots offers a six-axis robotic arm (named RO1) that uses AI and computer vision to automate manufacturing processes. These include tasks such as machine tending, pick-and-place, case packing, welding, sanding, polishing, and material handling. Users can program the robot and develop their own robotic applications via the platform’s no-code interface or through flexible APIs and React components. Furthermore, RO1 can be integrated with grippers, conveyors, 7th-axis slides, linear actuators, and more without additional configuration. Its products are available for outright sale.As of July 2024, the company was developing a transformer-based foundation model that enables users to program robots using demonstrations. The model also allows robots to self-learn and adapt to variations in the environment using its in-built 3D vision cameras.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of August 2024, the company’s robotic solutions were used by a number of enterprise and public sector clients, including NASA, MAC, Lyndex Nikken, Timken, Amazon, TMMI, and Reason Robotics.

Foundation Models

Skild AI offers foundational models that can be integrated into various robots, enabling them to perform tasks such as climbing steep slopes, navigating around obstacles, and identifying and picking up objects. The models can be used for various robot scenarios and applications involving manipulation, locomotion, and navigation. The company aims to develop low-cost robots for tasks such as inspection, surveillance, and manipulation in household and industrial settings.Skild AI's model is reportedly trained on a database of text, images, and videos claimed to be 1,000 times larger than those used by competitors.Its foundational AI model serves as a shared, general-purpose brain for diverse robot embodiments across various tasks and environments.&nbsp;

Revolutionizing efficiency by redefining human interactions

Humanoid Robots

Skild AI is developing a scalable artificial intelligence foundation model for robotics. The company's goal is to create a shared, general-purpose AI "brain" that can be applied to various types of robots, enabling them to perform diverse tasks such as manipulation, locomotion, and navigation across different environments. Skild AI's model is trained on significantly more data points than competing models, allowing for greater generalization and emergent capabilities. The company aims to make robots more agile, dexterous, and safe for human interaction, potentially expanding their use in industries facing labor shortages such as healthcare, construction, warehousing, and manufacturing.

Mantis Robotics develops human-robot collaboration technology to improve flexibility in factories and warehouses. It provides robots with tactile sensing and safety motion control technology, designed to work alongside humans with safety measures in place.

Algorized builds data-centric AI software platform for people sensing, capable to track and sense people at a distance without wearables, including vital signs such as heart-rate. The company leverages algorithms and ML with existing low cost UltraWide-Band (UWB) Radar sensors for automotive and industrial applications.

3Laws Robotics provides dynamics safety guardrails for autonomous and human operated systems.

Swiss-Mile develops an artificial intelligence-driven wheeled-legged robot to collect insights and streamline labor processes. The company is a deep tech spin-off from ETH Zurich, introduces wheeled-legged robots with AI-based autonomy to overcome these limitations. Its mobile robot is engineered to navigate and perform tasks across diverse environments, transforming efficiency in various industries. With the potential to address labor shortages, cut costs, enhance insights, and prioritize safety, these autonomous robots can tailor solutions to optimize specific processes.

Standard Bots is a company dedicated to building the world's most accessible and powerful robotics platform. They design and engineer advanced hardware and software solutions, such as the RO1 robot, to help businesses across various industries automate their operations and boost productivity. Standard Bots' products are designed to be intuitive, flexible, and easily integrated into existing workflows, making automation accessible to companies of all sizes.

Skild AI is a startup that develops software to power various robots including ones with two or four legs.

Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world.

Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.

Rightbot's Sherlock automates unloading and loading of floor loaded containers.

CoreTigo enables faster and more flexible manufacturing by providing high-performance machine digitalization, wireless connectivity and edge solutions for machine builders, system integrators and industrial equipment manufacturers. CoreTigo’s products enable the design and retrofit of machines and production lines that were not possible before. These solutions increase flexibility, adaptivity and modularity, resulting in cost effectiveness, increased productivity and downtime reduction. Embraced by industrial leaders, CoreTigo’s solutions are based on the IO-Link Wireless global standard, which is fit for harsh factory environments and motion control applications, providing the most reliable wireless connectivity for millions of sensors, actuators and industrial devices worldwide.

Veo Robotics is transforming manufacturing with products that incorporate advanced computer vision, 3D sensing, and AI.  Their first product lets high-performance industrial robots work collaboratively with people to enable much more flexible, productive, and efficient manufacturing workcells.

Flymingo developed a deep video algorithm to prevent supply chain mistakes.  Building state-of-the-art Computer Vision technology and utilizing the logistics center's camera infrastructure, Flymingo brings supply chain accuracy to a new level.

BionicHIVE is developing an automated warehouse solution based on a fleet of synchronized autonomous robots that can be retrofitted onto existing warehouse infrastructure. The solution consists of multiple autonomous robots that have 3 dimensional movement capabilities and extend the picking face from floor to ceiling.

The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund is a $1 billion corporate venture capital fund that supports emerging technology companies through direct investments.

Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund

Portfolio

About EDGE

Contact Us

Resources

Area of Focus

Technology Research Made Effortless