Solomon to Showcase Vision Development Platform at Automation Taipei 2024
Since its debut at NVIDIA’s GTC in March this year, Solomon, a leading AI vision company in Taiwan, has attracted significant attention. While the general public’s focus has primarily been on Solomon’s robotic applications, the company has deepened its AI vision research and development capabilities over the past decade, expanding its product range beyond robotics.
At this year’s Automation Taipei exhibition, Solomon will showcase various vision applications, ranging from robotic 3D vision and AI defect detection to enhanced intelligent solutions integrating AI and AR technologies. These demonstrations are similar to successful implementations for top international companies like Toyota, Dell, Applied Materials, Siemens, Chanel, 3M, and Alcon. One particularly noteworthy aspect is that Solomon not only offers these vision applications as standalone products but also provides a comprehensive AI vision application development platform. This platform enables customers to quickly develop customized solutions tailored to their specific needs.
Johnny Chen, Chairman of Solomon explained: “Through discussions with hundreds of domestic and international clients, we have learned that the time and resources required to develop custom AI applications for on-site deployment often exceed customer expectations, leading to unsuccessful implementations. Solomon’s AI vision development platform has integrated and optimized many different AI algorithms, enabling AI to be applied to diverse vision applications. The advanced algorithms allow users to train AI models with high recognition rates using a smaller number of image samples. Additionally, the platform integrates various robot brands, PLCs, 2D and 3D cameras, AMRs, and even drones. Users can easily customize their tasks using these built-in software and hardware features, without needing to write code, much like building a LEGO model.”
At this year’s Automation Taipei exhibition, Solomon will showcase its advanced vision integration of AR (Augmented Reality), AI, and several robotic systems. One of the major highlights this year is the use of ChatGPT to issue commands to robots, enabling them or Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) to autonomously move to different scenarios for patrol and inspection. For example, even objects as far as ten meters away, such as the needle readings on industrial gauges, can be immediately recognized. This can help reduce the time personnel spend moving around and increase inspection accuracy.
AR + AI Vision System
Solomon will also present an innovative technology that integrates AI and AR, using AR to guide operators during assembly tasks and then having AI instantly verify the correctness of the operator’s actions. Solomon chairman Johnny Chen pointed out: “In many frontline operations, human dexterity is still far superior to that of robots, so not everything can be most efficiently solved through automation. However, humans can make mistakes, leading to safety issues or reduced factory productivity. Through the integration of AI and AR, we can now minimize operator errors and improve efficiency.” Chen also stated, “This technology needs to be integrated with telecom operators and hardware manufacturers, so we are pleased to collaborate with many of our ecosystem partners such as Chunghwa Telecom, Axis, Epson Japan, Orjin Technologies, EverFocus Electronics, and others to quickly deploy various AI-customized application scenarios.”
It is understood that Solomon’s AR + AI technology has already been successfully applied in various fields, including petrochemical plants, automotive parts factories, retail chains, metro systems abroad, and international airports. Additionally, in cooperation with Utitech, Solomon’s AR + AI technology has been integrated with Schneider’s Wonderware SCADA industrial monitoring system and showcased through NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform.
Robotic Innovations
Through its collaboration with NVIDIA in the robotics field, Solomon will demonstrate smart motion planning software at Automation Taipei. This software can calculate the optimal path among hundreds of possible routes for a robot to reach specified points and poses on a 3D CAD file, while also avoiding “singularities” — points that the robot cannot reach. Traditionally, engineers have spent significant time using cumbersome robot teach pendants to program the robot’s path.
Additionally, at Kenmec’s booth, Solomon and Kenmec will show the logistics application featuring a robotic arm and 3D vision that was demonstrated by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in his keynote speech at this year’s COMPUTEX using NVIDIA Omniverse. Furthermore, at the Universal Robots booth, the largest collaborative robot brand globally, Solomon will showcase its 3D vision applications integrated with NVIDIA Isaac. Additionally, Solomon will unveil the world’s first 3D AI vision technology that allows multiple robotic arms to simultaneously pick items from a cluttered bin while avoiding collisions, increasing logistics and warehouse picking efficiency by more than 50%. Solomon will also introduce an affordable welding robot solution to help address the current shortage of skilled welders in the country.
AI Vision System
In addition to the above products, Solomon’s SolVision AI defect detection product has been successfully implemented in many industries, including semiconductors, EMS, automotive, contact lenses, agriculture, and medical equipment. For industries like semiconductors where defect samples are rare, Solomon has recently developed a generative AI feature to simulate defects, ensuring sufficient diverse samples for building high-recognition AI models. It also includes traditional AOI features to locate and measure defects more accurately. SolVision can also be easily paired with robotic arms to inspect large non-flat objects, such as motors or servers. By setting the 3D location of the defect that needs inspection, the optimal arm inspection path can be quickly calculated and executed.
Rapid AI, Ready to Deploy
These demonstrations highlight how Solomon uses its AI vision development platform to enable users to quickly develop diverse and easily customizable AI applications. Chen said: “Many companies may think AI automation projects are easy to implement, but they often find that optimizing software, integrating hardware, and collecting data require significant resources. However, it is unnecessary to raise a cow just to drink milk. Through years of practical experience, Solomon’s vision platform has optimized the integration of many complex software and hardware, greatly simplifying this process, making the deployment and implementation of customized AI vision applications faster and more feasible than ever before.”
About Solomon:
Solomon provides advanced vision solutions, including 3D bin picking, vision-guided robots, AI-based defect inspection, and augmented intelligence blending AI and AR.
Solomon provides advanced vision solutions, including 3D bin picking, vision-guided robots, AI-based defect inspection, and augmented intelligence blending AI and AR.