Robotics Solutions and Technologies
Create world-changing robotics solutions with our reliable, flexible, and modular technology and solutions portfolio.
Unlock Infinite Robotics Possibilities with Intel on Your Side
From picking and packing products in a warehouse to delivering food to customers in a restaurant, automation and robotics are in high demand and have the potential to reshape our entire world.
Intel is here to help robotics builders of all skill levels bring their robotics solutions to life.
Our portfolio of open source robotics technologies, partner solutions, and ongoing support can simplify development and accelerate time to market. We combine key robotics components—such as compute, sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), connectivity, and software—to help you find the right balance of price, performance, functionality, and form factor for your solution.
Discover Robotics Solutions and How They’re Redefining What’s Possible
Get to Know Today’s Robots and Use Cases
Robots are being used for a virtually limitless number of use cases across industries. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) act as concierges in shopping malls, robotic arms assist human workers in manufacturing plants, last-mile delivery robots shuttle food across college campuses, and cleaning robots help hospitals stay safe and sanitized. Learn about types of robots and the innovative ways they are used across industries.
What Are Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)?
Learn all about AMRs, including how they use sensors and cameras to ingest information about their surroundings and onboard computing to make near-real-time decisions as they move around the world.
What Are Industrial Robotic Arms?
Watch how articulated robots (also known as robotic arms) emulate the functions of a human arm and learn how they can be used and programmed to do a nearly infinite number of tasks.
Warehouse, Logistics, and Manufacturing Robots
Enable process automation in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and logistics to help enhance worker safety, increase productivity, and improve product quality with industrial robotics.
Healthcare
Transform patient care, streamline clinical processes, and promote worker safety with Intel-powered medical robots.
Retail, Banking, and Hospitality
Streamline and enhance the customer experience—from customer service to inventory automation, room service, luggage assistance, and wayfinding—with robotics technology from Intel.
Enabling Faster, Simpler Robot Development and Deployment
No matter if you’re new or experienced in creating robot applications, we know getting to market quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively is top priority. We’re here to help bring your innovations to fruition with a comprehensive robotics technology portfolio, prevalidated partner solutions, and software building blocks.
Tools and Technologies for Robotics Software Developers
Simplify and accelerate the application development process and enable more flexibility to run apps at the edge.
Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)
Develop, build, and deploy end-to-end mobile robot applications with this purpose-built, open, and modular software development kit.
Intel® Edge Software Hub
Use converged edge insights recipes to build and deploy intelligence-based applications.
Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit
Get essential tools and prebuilt components to streamline development of AI inference capabilities for robotics solutions.
Intel® DevCloud
Develop, test, and optimize robotics software remotely with Intel® DevCloud to avoid system configuration headaches and accelerate your processes.
Intel® Hardware for Robotics Solutions
Intel provides robotics builders with hardware technologies with unique capabilities, such as Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Intel® Time Coordinated Computing (Intel® TCC), to enable real-time performance and functional safety for robots.
Robotics Processors
Our latest processors offer unique features for functional safety and real-time performance—making them ideal for robotics use cases. Our Intel® Core™ and Intel Atom® solutions deliver the real-time performance and flexibility required by robotics technologies. Our Intel® Xeon® processors are frequently used in the edge servers that work alongside robots in the field.
Intel® RealSense™ Computer Vision Technologies
Our comprehensive portfolio of computer vision cameras, hardware, and software brings spatial awareness to robotics solutions.
Intel® FPGAs
Our programmable solutions enable innovative designs in robotics solutions across a wide range of industries and applications.
Network Communications Technologies
Our portfolio of networking technologies supports the real-time performance requirements of today’s robotics technologies.
Building Blocks for Robots
Intel provides the essential building blocks that are used to create connected, intelligent, and reliable robotics solutions.
Real-Time Systems
Intel offers the hardware and reference system‒level software needed to develop real-time applications for robotics solutions where reliability and predictability are critical to operation and safety.
Functional Safety
We’ve adopted a comprehensive safety approach across Intel® processors and accelerators, allowing customers to accelerate development while meeting safety-critical requirements.
AI
Intel® machine learning, inference, and computer vision technologies help robots understand the world around them and intelligently take action.
Hardware-Based Security Capabilities
Our hardware-level security features deliver deep-rooted protection for more-secure robotics and edge computing devices.
Manageability
Hardware-level remote access and control make it easier to support and manage robots and their associated edge devices.
Industrial PCs
Our ruggedized PC solutions are designed to withstand the harsh operating environments ideal for industrial robotics while still providing high performance and compatibility.
Kick-Start Your Next Automation and Robotics Project
Tap into our growing ecosystem of partner solutions or robust starter kits to simplify, accelerate, and enhance your smart robots and applications.
Browse Robotics Partners or Offerings
Discover Intel-powered partner solutions or connect with a partner to help with your next innovation.
Find the AMR Solution You Need
Explore solutions to get your autonomous mobile robot solution up and running quickly.
Fast-Track Your AMR Application Development
Download our Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robots (EI for AMR) dev guide to help simplify and speed up your app creation and get to market faster.
Deploy AI Applications Without Coding
Leverage the Axiomtek AI complete starter kit to accelerate the development of vision applications within manufacturing.
Build AMR Machine Vision Apps Right Out of the Box
Create your next app in hours instead of weeks with the UP Squared RoboMaker Pro Kit, which integrates every essential element needed for AMR innovation.
Discover Businesses Changing the World with Robotics Solutions
Explore the Future of Robotics
Learn more about AMRs, AMR-enabling technologies, and Intel® partner solutions for AMRs.
Support
Find support information, documentation, downloads, community posts, and other resources for robotics technologies and solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Robotics is used across many industries to enable workers to focus on the most-critical and -valuable tasks. Industrial and manufacturing organizations, warehousing and logistics companies, healthcare providers, and retail, banking, and hospitality companies are using robotics solutions to deliver enhanced business outcomes.
Robotics manufacturers need to deliver cutting-edge, scalable solutions at optimal prices. They’re seeking to deliver flexible, high-performance designs to help their customers achieve their goals.
Robots need to be able to see, plan, and act. To do so, they require sensors (such as cameras) that allow them to intake information about the world around them—plus processing power to help them analyze the information and make a decision. Finally, they need actuation tools that allow them to take action in the physical world.
Common software components that are required for robots to operate include:
- Foundational software: Robots need foundational software, such as an operating system, open source robot operating system (ROS) software, and drivers for sensors and other additional hardware components that are on the system, to operate.
- Algorithms: Algorithms allow robots to autonomously navigate and are used for localization, mapping, navigation, and motion estimation.
- Edge server or cloud software: Cloud software applications, such as those for fleet management, simulations, and other micro services, allow AI data analytics to be performed on the raw information sensed and captured by robots. This allows robots to better understand their environment and take appropriate actions.
- Artificial intelligence: Artificial intelligence allows robots to perform tasks faster and more accurately. Depending on what other hardware and software components a robot is equipped with, AI also enables operations such as object detection, classification, natural language processing, and conversational AI.