AI Foundation Model Is Primed for Warehouse Work

Ambi Robotics, a provider of AI-powered robotic sorting solutions, launched PRIME-1, the first robotic foundation model to be deployed in real-world commercial warehouse operations.

PRIME-1, which stands for Production-Ready Industrial Manipulation Expert, provides a backbone that can be fine-tuned for a variety of robot operations including 3D perception, package picking, and quality control. It can increase performance, accelerate product development, and boost the reliability and maintainability of robotic solutions.

The foundation model was pre-trained with self-supervised deep learning on more than 20 million high-quality images from individual pick, place, and pack events spanning 150,000 operating hours across the company’s fleet of AI-powered robotic sorting systems in U.S. warehouses. The training dataset represents about 1% of the data collected to-date. The breadth and specificity of data ensures PRIME-1 is optimized for precision and efficiency in real-world logistics operations.