What if AI-powered robots could collaborate directly with humans in tasks we usually consider “human only”?
Every day, Gefit develops AI-driven automation systems for the automotive industry — always exploring new possibilities. This time, however, we set a different kind of challenge for one of our robots: handling pasta boxes!
Although the gripper and system were not specifically designed for lightweight consumer goods, the experiment proved to be an excellent opportunity to assess the robot’s flexibility and its ability to collaborate safely with humans in a non-industrial context.
In the video, available on LinkedIn and YouTube, the robot can be seen scanning its surroundings through a wrist-mounted camera.
The captured images are processed by an AI developed by Gefit, which:
- detects the operator’s body and identifies its keypoints;
- recognizes the hand holding the object to be picked (in this case, a box of pasta) and tracks its motion until the package is within the robot’s gripper;
- once the box is grasped, classifies the pasta type;
- It then places it in the correct container, automatically identifying the best available spot through an AI-based estimation.
The real innovation lies in the fact that the robot was not programmed using its native language, but is entirely controlled through a Gefit-designed interface.
👇 Watch the full video on YouTube and LinkedIn!
https://youtu.be/gSC42BxeJNM
