FRANKA AI COMPANION

Exclusively tailored for your FR3

Empowers you to accomplish more, with greater ease and speed.

Franka AI Companion elegantly combines the hardware and software you need to streamline setup and speed up execution of your robotics and AI research work, while also offering NVIDIA® GPU-accelerated edge computational power and Franka Research 3's real-time 1kHz control.
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Integration of GPU power with real-time control

Benefit from connecting AI models with real-time robot control on the same platform, eliminating the need for external resources when conducting tasks like combined object detection and grasp-planning.

 

Simplified research setup

Easily create, manage, and switch between research setups using a sandboxed development environment that integrates with docker containers (e.g. LLMs and vision models).

 

Extended capabilities

Out-of-the-box compatibility with an expanding array of popular hardware devices (e.g. Intel® RealSense™) and software components.

 

Multi-user, multi-experiment management

Quickly transfer setups and data in the same lab or share them with other institutions, facilitating dissemination of research results and methodology, thereby fostering collaboration.

 

A growing ecosystem

Franka AI Companion is only one of Franka's ecosystem enhancements, complementing and easily integrating with offerings such as Franka MATLAB Toolbox and Franka ROS 2. These synergies empower you to leverage the robust data acquisition and real-time control capabilities of Franka robots.

 


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NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ NX

16 GB RAM 

500 GB SSD 

Interfaces: 

3x USB 3.1 C-Type
Dual GBit LAN
HDMI
Digital I/Os
RS323, RS422 & CAN Bus
 
 
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 A plethora of use cases

 

  • Quick switching between multiple incompatible software stacks.

  • Rapid evaluation of multiple ML models by switching docker containers.

  • Object detection with real-time visual servoing.

  • Straightforward attachment of experiment-related SW setups to papers for review.

  • PC-agnostic/independent setup and execution of research work.