ROSEMONT, IL, October 23, 2018 - Being a large globally oriented system integrator gives Lyric Robot the resources to have an R&D group. It has 18 PhD's among its staff of 1000 of which 70% have a bachelors or higher. It also boasts relationships with 8 Universities and holds more than 150 patents. Among the technologies being developed by Lyric Robot is a version of Digital Twin technology for Factory Automation and Robotics (FAR). Lyric Robot chose The Assembly Show to demonstrate some of this technology in their booth with live feeds to a robotic system in China.
The concept of digital twin dates back to earlier days at NASA. It is the idea that one can design a sophisticated technology driven device like a Mars Rover, test the design through simulation, enhance the design through simulation and then fabricate the best design. Going further, in a situation of a space vehicle, one can interact with the physical device and make enhancements by downloading modifications. Even more advanced, once can use actual physical device data to enhance simulations and then create new versions of software that can be downloaded into the existing physical device and enhance it further.