Robotics software company Bettering our Worlds (BOW) known for its code-agnostic, interoperable, and scalable solutions, will showcase a groundbreaking application, Apple Vision Pro, in collaboration with digital product developers Compsoft Creative. The demonstration will be held at the Manufacturing Technology Centre’s (MTC) event: Robotics and Automation: For a Sustainable Future, running 14-15 May in Coventry.
The industrial robotics sector is poised for significant growth, with forecasts predicting a more than twofold increase from $40.6 billion in 2024 to $90.3 billion by 2030. Despite the burgeoning investment in robotics, which has seen around 1500 robotics companies worldwide raise approximately $90 billion over the past five years, challenges persist in application development and productisation.
These challenges include programming interoperability issues between different robot models, simulation difficulties across various robots, and a limited pool of specialised roboticist programmers.
Originally established in 2020 from research in computational intelligence and robotics, BOW offers a software platform that addresses the primary bottlenecks to robotics deployment and scalability. The BOW platform empowers any software developer to create and simulate applications for any robot, regardless of programming language or operating system.
At the Robotics and Automation event hosted by the Manufacturing Technology Centre, Compsoft Creative and BOW will present a bespoke robotics application designed for Apple Vision Pro. Developed by Compsoft Creative, the application use BOW’s Digital Twin capability and universal robotics software platform.
Employing spatial computing, the app provides live operation and simulation of an industrial robotic arm, enabling real-time remote control. Potential applications for this app span various sectors, including healthcare, hospitality, retail, industrial, and hazardous environments.
The BOW platform is engineered to be code-agnostic, allowing software developers, not just roboticists, to programme robots in their preferred language and operating system, such as .NET, C++, or Python, running on Windows or Linux. Using BOW’s simulator SDK, programmers can simulate their robotics solutions in real-time, generating reusable control algorithms applicable to diverse robots. This addresses the current challenges of interoperability and scalability in the robotics market.
Daniel Payne, CEO of Compsoft Creative said: “Compsoft Creative’s technical and UX experts have developed a custom Apple Vision Pro app which offers a spectrum of innovative mixed reality and fully immersive experiences into which users can place their own content and narratives. The app blends a spatial computing experience with robot remote control and – in partnership with our robotics software partner BOW – Digital Twin capabilities.”
Nick Thompson, CEO of BOW said: “For robotics to achieve its full potential and usher in a new golden age for humanity, the current complexity of programming and deploying robots must be solved. BOW is a universal robotics software platform that allows anyone with software development skills to quickly and easily program robots in their chosen language and operating system, democratising development and making robotics interoperable for the first time.
“Our innovative partnership with Compsoft Creative demonstrates the novel applications that can be addressed using the BOW platform, in this case leveraging Apple Vision Pro’s spatial computing experience to enable remote control of robots for industries as diverse as healthcare, retail, hospitality and manufacturing.”
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