Robotable to Launch IsoMotion Humanoid Skill Transfer Software

Why skills do not carry over easily

Moving a skill between models is hard because a skill is the result of training: how far to move each joint when the robot recognizes a particular scene. Joint layouts differ from robot to robot, as do camera fields of view and whether a machine has tactile sensors. The same task therefore requires different joint movements on different hardware.

The idea came from Robotable's own business. The company is a systems integrator specializing in food-service robots, and it automates cooking with machines from several manufacturers, including Neuromeka and Rainbow Robotics. Working with so many platforms created demand for reusing a skill across them, Choi said.

Demo at Robo World

At the show, Robotable had different robots slice a cucumber with a knife in the same way. A staff member first operated a leader arm, a hand-guided control arm used to collect teleoperation demonstration data, and cut cucumbers 100 times. According to the company, that data alone was enough to create a cucumber-cutting skill, which IsoMotion then moved to other robots. Choi said university lab professors who watched the demo responded especially well.

Robotable opened a robot-run delivery kitchen called One Kitchen in Seoul's Gangnam district in June, where it runs real operations with multiple robots to collect data and develop skills. Choi said the company will sell IsoMotion on its own and also as a package bundled with humanoid hardware.