Investigating a novel Self-adapting IntelliGent MAchine TEnding Robotic technology (SIGMATE, sbot)**

Karma Machining & Manufacturing Ltd.公司致力于营造一个安全、健康、高效的生产环境。该公司为阿尔伯塔的石油和天然气以及机械加工部门提供创新的解决方案。最近的重点是扩大其提供新的自动化解决方案的能力，以取代机器维护操作中的人类。这将为市场提供新产品，就业机会和加拿大经济的潜在增长。全球可用的机器人辅助系统的自主性不足以解决复杂和具有挑战性的机器维护操作。因此，我们设想了一种新的自适应智能机器维护机器人系统能够适应/重新适应在不断变化的环境。该系统应能够根据其视觉和智能（AI）能力进行重新配置和决策。建议的研究项目是一个步骤，以支持机器人机器测试系统的可行性分析和初步原型的迫切需要。这笔赠款将提供市场分析，可行性研究，确定关键要素和研究/开发初始概念/原型，以整合未来机器维护业务的要求和潜力。

Karma Machining & Manufacturing Ltd. Company is striving to foster a safe, healthy, productive and efficient manufacturing environment. The company provide innovative solutions to oil and gas and machining sector of Alberta. The recent focus is towards expanding its capabilities in providing new automated solutions to replace human in machine tending operations. This will provide new product to the market, job opportunities, and a potential growth to the Canadian economy. The robot assistive systems, available globally, are not autonomous enough to tackle the complex and challenging machine-tending operations. Therefore, we envision a novel self-adapting intelligent machine tending robotic system capable of adapting/re-adapting in a changing environment. The system shall be able to reconfigure and take decisions based on its vision and intelligence (AI) capabilities. The proposed research project is a step to support the immediate need of feasibility analysis and initial prototyping of robot machine-testing system. The grant will provide market analysis, feasibility study, identify the key elements and research/develop initial concepts/prototype to integrate the requirements and potential for the future machine tending operations.