Arrow Electronics creates Robotics Center of Excellence (COE) to empower the intelligent edge and advance automation

Arrow Electronics and its company - eInfochips have established a Robotics Center of Excellence (COE) to help customers accelerate time to market for the development of cutting-edge automation solutions for use in manufacturing, digital factories, and other industries.

Arrow has teamed with global technology majors - Analog Devices (ADI), NVIDIA, and onsemi image sensors to develop reference designs and proof of concepts that robotics customers can leverage to improve product design.

Arrow Electronics makes investments in key resources

Arrow Electronics has made investments in resources, including engineers, hardware, software, and simulators

Arrow Electronics has made investments in resources, including engineers, hardware, software, and simulators. Platforms from NVIDIA include Jetson developer kits and modules, Isaac Sim, Omniverse, Metropolis, TAO Toolkit, TensorRT, and Triton Inference Server.

Additionally, Arrow Electronics will leverage open-source tools like ROS and Gazebo. The Robotics COE aims to help innovators with solutions and reference designs that will address the common robotics tasks of perception, navigation, and planning.

Robotics Center of Excellence (COE)

The opening of the Robotics Center of Excellence (COE) comes at a time when the use of robotics is soon to be ubiquitous. According to the International Federation of Robotics, robots and cobots (collaborative robots) in industrial manufacturing have doubled in the last five years.

There is an increasing need for robots to operate safely, accurately, and efficiently in a variety of environments, while helping ensure the ability to identify and interact with objects in their surroundings. These requirements make developing robotic solutions a challenge.

Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence at the edge

“The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence at the edge, as well as applications such as autonomous machines will revolutionise the digital factory to enable the deployment and growth of Industry 4.0,” said Aiden Mitchell, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Engineering at Arrow Electronics.

Aiden Mitchell adds, “Arrow Electronics is proud to work together with ADI to create a centre of excellence to empower the Intelligent Edge through design services capabilities, reduce technology complexities, and accelerate time to market.”

Robotics COE to help deliver robotics solutions

Customers can rely on the Robotics COE to help deliver innovative and major robotics solutions

Customers can rely on the Robotics COE to help deliver innovative and major robotics solutions, accelerate and de-risk design cycles, leverage ADI sensor technologies in conjunction with computing platform products and development kits for robotics, and provide access to a world-class support team enabling them to plan and manage their product roadmap and lifecycles.

“ADI and Arrow Electronics are working together to develop advanced automation solutions, such as industrial robotics for the broad market customer base,” said Leo McHugh, Vice President of Industrial Automation at Analog Devices (ADI).

Robotics COE is already creating advancements

Leo McHugh adds, “Integrating the latest modular solutions from ADI with state-of-the-art AI modules, complex algorithms, and simulation tools from NVIDIA will allow our customers to focus on their specific applications and bring solutions to market faster.”

The Robotics COE is already creating advancements. The first solution from the Robotics COE initiative, the VSLAM and Sensor Fusion algorithms utilising ADI CMOS TOS and IMU, is being demonstrated at Sensors Converge 2023 in San Jose, California, USA (Booth 1034).