“We are aiming to develop a low-cost robotic platform that aims to improve the performance over a lot of the conventional robotic platforms out there on the market today.”
Industries like agriculture and manufacturing are ripe for robotic automation, but the cost and rigidness of traditional cobot hardware often hold back adoption. Sol Robotics is tackling these issues head-on with a fresh approach to cobot hardware design.
Their low-cost cobot hardware platform, HERA, integrates a novel actuation system that enables the cobot to reach incredible distances while ensuring the safety and durability critical to operating alongside people.
Given the groundbreaking nature of HERA, the Sol Robotics team faced challenges in the time and effort involved in integrating different components of the platform. Sol Robotics looked for a robotics software platform that could:
“Viam has been a really great tool for us because it allows us to integrate different components of our robotic platform seamlessly and without a lot of overhead while we're still growing as a company.”
Viam’s composable approach to robotics software not only makes it compatible with HERA but also greatly simplifies the process of developing and deploying new cobots.
The Sol Robotics team has implemented software control of HERA as a custom modular component in Viam against the arm API, making actions like “MoveToPosition” a breeze to make or modify. That means they no longer need to worry about implementing low-level commands or integrations, and can instead focus on improving HERA’s core functionality.
For example, if the goal is to have the cobot paint a wall, they can focus on implementing the algorithm for navigating features of the wall as Viam takes care of the lower-level kinematics involved.
And their team isn’t the only one to benefit—businesses building cobot applications with HERA can use Viam in the same way to get up and running quickly.
“The Sol Robotics platform is going to be a great candidate for automation in agriculture and construction, which are two of the largest markets we feel that are ripe for robotic automation.”
Using Viam’s software to build on Sol Robotics’ cobot hardware does more than just accelerate development. It’s about opening up the possibilities for cobots to help more businesses take advantage of automation.
Sol Robotics’ hardware platform is designed to be adaptable and extensible, perfectly aligned with Viam’s composable approach to robotics software.
With Sol Robotics and Viam together, businesses have the flexibility to use the best cobot hardware and software tools available for building robots that will improve our world.
Businesses can use Sol Robotics’ cobot technology and Viam’s software platform together to:
Learn more about Sol Robotics' cobot technology on their website, and check out our documentation to explore the Viam robotics software platform.
Have a question for our team? Reach out to us using the form below.
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“We are aiming to develop a low-cost robotic platform that aims to improve the performance over a lot of the conventional robotic platforms out there on the market today.”
Industries like agriculture and manufacturing are ripe for robotic automation, but the cost and rigidness of traditional cobot hardware often hold back adoption. Sol Robotics is tackling these issues head-on with a fresh approach to cobot hardware design.
Their low-cost cobot hardware platform, HERA, integrates a novel actuation system that enables the cobot to reach incredible distances while ensuring the safety and durability critical to operating alongside people.
Given the groundbreaking nature of HERA, the Sol Robotics team faced challenges in the time and effort involved in integrating different components of the platform. Sol Robotics looked for a robotics software platform that could:
“Viam has been a really great tool for us because it allows us to integrate different components of our robotic platform seamlessly and without a lot of overhead while we're still growing as a company.”
Viam’s composable approach to robotics software not only makes it compatible with HERA but also greatly simplifies the process of developing and deploying new cobots.
The Sol Robotics team has implemented software control of HERA as a custom modular component in Viam against the arm API, making actions like “MoveToPosition” a breeze to make or modify. That means they no longer need to worry about implementing low-level commands or integrations, and can instead focus on improving HERA’s core functionality.
For example, if the goal is to have the cobot paint a wall, they can focus on implementing the algorithm for navigating features of the wall as Viam takes care of the lower-level kinematics involved.
And their team isn’t the only one to benefit—businesses building cobot applications with HERA can use Viam in the same way to get up and running quickly.
“The Sol Robotics platform is going to be a great candidate for automation in agriculture and construction, which are two of the largest markets we feel that are ripe for robotic automation.”
Using Viam’s software to build on Sol Robotics’ cobot hardware does more than just accelerate development. It’s about opening up the possibilities for cobots to help more businesses take advantage of automation.
Sol Robotics’ hardware platform is designed to be adaptable and extensible, perfectly aligned with Viam’s composable approach to robotics software.
With Sol Robotics and Viam together, businesses have the flexibility to use the best cobot hardware and software tools available for building robots that will improve our world.
Businesses can use Sol Robotics’ cobot technology and Viam’s software platform together to:
Learn more about Sol Robotics' cobot technology on their website, and check out our documentation to explore the Viam robotics software platform.
Have a question for our team? Reach out to us using the form below.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
"Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system."
