Innovator journeys: Robotics 2: Logistics and interoperability
Video / May 28, 2025
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VO: The Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program, or IDEaS, funded the Robot round-up challenge, comprised of innovators with robotics technologies that could benefit the Canadian Armed Forces by advancing automation and the compatibility of different robotic systems.
Philippe Hébert: “The competition between innovators who participate in the IDEaS program maximizes potential technology and is the fuel that fosters the best innovative solutions enhancing defence capabilities.”
VO: Training robots that provide physical logistics support through automation is a complex task, requiring advanced machine learning achieved through AI, artificial intelligence.
Olivia Norton: “Sanctuary's technology at the highest level is providing physical AI for general purpose robots. But we have a specific interest in all of these activities related to dexterous manipulation. This is strength. This is capability, and this is fine manipulation.
This is where you start to see the real value in these types of systems.”
Robert Waye: “What we're trying to do at Sanctuary is build autonomous labor solutions that can go into the Canadian Armed Forces and fill those gaps in the logistics roles so that we can use service members to do more, more high-value work, than these rote logistical repetitive tasks. Having that non-dilutive funding from IDEaS has allowed us to progress things like our haptic sensors, like our high degree of freedom hands as well as our machine learning and AI team.”
VO: Seamless compatibility enables a single operator to control different robotic units with a single command module, making operations for military operators more fluid, dynamic, and efficient.
Luke Corbeth: “The Indro Cortex System is able to interface with these robots or drones or marine vehicles and able to understand and interpolate its cameras, sensors, connectivity to enable real-time command and control. And understand exactly what the robot is seeing to achieve a wide range of different applications.”
Peter King: “Traditionally we need to train specialized users in the field on how to use these applications. We can take any drone platform. We can take any ground vehicle platform. We can take any marine application. We can standardize with our compute solution and our software, and allow a single operator to log in to any of their devices from anywhere in the world, and be confident in their abilities to interact with not only a ground vehicle on the ground, but a drone in the air, and simultaneously flip back and forth between the two of them.”
Luke Corbeth: “The IDEaS funding has really allowed us to take what we've done in the past and make it 100 x better.”
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