Co-Founders: Jeffrey Mahler, Ken Goldberg, Stephen McKinley, David Gealy, Matt Matl
Founded: 2018
HQ: Emeryville, CA
Category: Innovation Award and Overall Excellence
Ambidextrous is empowering versatile robots for automated e-commerce order fulfillment with an AI-enhanced operating system that learns to pick, scan, and pack a wide variety of items in just a few hours, enabling new levels of flexibility, reliability, and accuracy.
This is made possible by smart dexterous manipulation technology developed by the founding team at UC Berkeley, who pioneered simulation-to-reality learning for robotic picking in the Dex-Net project. Since presenting the Dex-Net research, Ambidextrous has been quietly working with significant commercial customers. @AiAmbidextrous
Read more at: https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/26/eaau4984