Forge Lab combines AI-powered vision training with powerful simulation tools to make vision-guided robotics easier to use.

Forge Lab helps you make sure.

Forge Lab is a web-based AI simulation and training environment that helps you lower risk in vision-guided robot projects. You can build and simulate robotic cells in hours. And you don't need any hardware—just a web browser and an internet connection.

What does Forge Lab promise?

Forge Lab drastically reduces the time and risks involved with developing vision-guided robotic cells for bin picking and material handling.

Without any cameras, computers, robots or hardware, you can develop cells and send them for AI vision training. Within 24 hours, the vision program can be deployed into real production cells using Apera Vue software.

AI robotic simulation helps reduce the risk of using vision and robotics in industrial automation.

Vision + robotics combined

Achieve in hours what used to take days.

Forge Lab guides you step-by-step through all the components in building a vision-guided robotic cell. When your cell is built, being able to run hundreds of simulations quickly enables you to check and improve your design. Find and solve challenging edge problems through full random and structured simulations.

Then adjust your design for the best results. You have already done the work ahead of cell deployment and the choices translate directly into Apera's Vue vision software. Vue delivers the speed, reliability and lighting resiliency that production environments demand.

Forge Lab guides your robotic cell building process

Pictures of synthetic data used to train neural network for robotic bin picking.

The AI training process

Synthetic data

In training its neural networks, Apera AI uses synthetic data. This allows us to bypass the need for reference images or relying purely on CAD models. Synthetic data allows us to improve the AI process and introduce variables such as lighting, finish, texture, and labels or markings.

Get a Forge Lab user account by contacting Apera AI.

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Start your Forge Lab journey today

Forge Lab is available now to Apera AI customers and partners. Simply contact us at the bottom of this page and we will create a Forge Lab user account for you.

If you're not currently an Apera customer, Forge Lab is a great place to get started. Contact us and we'll reach out to talk about your automation goals and how Forge Lab can support them.