Cloud Robotics & AI

On top of using Phantom Bridge for teleoperation and system monitoring by a human, AI and Expert Systems can be used to control an autonomous machine from the cloud. Thanks to fast networking and various bandwidth optimizations, you can offload compute-intense vision and decision making tasks from the edge device and significantly lower CPU/GPU demands and power requirements of the robot itself. All this has a major impact on the cost of the necessary hardware where reliable conectivity is not an issue.

This is an active subject of our R&D, more readily made features will be announced when ready. If you’d like to dive into this area yourself, the best place to start might be browser-client.js in the Bridge UI package. It is conceived as a (more-or-less) self contained API reference for the Phantom Bridge, and can be adapted into a server-side ROS connector implemented either in Node.js or Python.

Get in touch via or GitHub if you feel like discussing this topic further or collaborating in this area.