NSU: Robot for finishing premises

2024: Robot Presentation

Specialists of Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have developed and began to use a robot for finishing premises, capable of performing simple but time-consuming operations, such as grinding walls. This was reported by the press service of the university on June 4, 2024.

The robot was created by undergraduate students of the Institute of Intellectual Robotics of NSU as part of the Project Activity course. The customer of the project was a large construction company specializing in the construction of non-residential facilities in various regions of the country, including the Novosibirsk region.

source = NSU

As the author of the course Yevgeny Ivanov noted, the main task of the robot is to automate the work on grinding walls in the premises before finishing them. Typically, this work is carried out with the help of low-skilled labor, which often leads to problems with the turnover of personnel and the need to spend considerable effort to control the quality of work performed.

Ivanova said that to solve this problem, NSU specialists equipped the manipulator robot with the necessary grinding tools and developed special software to control them. The next stage in the introduction of a new technological solution will be the integration of the robot into the production process and possible modifications of its equipment and software for the features of various construction facilities.

According to Alexei Okunev, director of the Institute of Intellectual Robotics of NSU, the task of the NSU IIR is to train employees for companies that want to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in various applied tasks, primarily for enterprises in the Siberian region. Many students working on projects from industrial partners continue to solve similar problems after employment in these companies.^[1]

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