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ForwardX Robotics Releases Flex 60-T Mobile Robot for Cage Trolley Docking and Towing

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.64

ForwardX Technology Co. yesterday unveiled the Flex 60-T, an autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, equipped with an advanced docking and towing system for cate trolleys. The Beijing-based company plans to show the Flex 60-T for the first time at CeMAT Australia this week. Cage trolleys, or roll cages, transport heavy loads of products and equipment in warehouses, factories, distribution centers, retail stores, hospitals, supermarkets, hospitality workplaces, and catering establishments. Traditionally, these roll cages have been manually transported throughout the warehouse, limiting productivity and posing safety risks, noted ForwardX. The company said in a release that it has designed the Flex…

Indy Autonomous Challenge to Take Another Lap at CES 2023 With Self-Driving Racecars

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.59

…remotely driven car service Halo, and 5G network provider T-Mobile. Nine teams from around the world competed with the same base cars from Dallara and lidar sensors from Luminar, adding their own self-driving software. Team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama won the $150,000 grand prize. It also later set the land-speed record for an autonomous racecar on the space shuttle runway in Florida (see video below). “The Autonomous Challenge @ CES in January brought a new level of excitement to CES with the world’s first head-to-head autonomous racecar competition, pushing autonomous driving technology to its…

Picnic Robotic Pizza Station to Serve College Basketball Fans at Caesars Superdome

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56

…companies have demonstrated automated pizza production for attendees at T-Mobile Park in Seattle and the Las Vegas Convention Center. Picnic's Pizza Station at the Caesar's Superdome. Source: Sodexo Live! This weekend, the Picnic station will be in the Miller Lite Club at the Caesars Superdome, providing pizza slices and whole pizzas at a rate of up to 100 12-in. pizzas per hour, Sodexo said. “Picnic was founded on the belief that automation in food service can help address the challenges of food waste and labor shortages while increasing profitability,” said Clayton Wood, CEO of Picnic. “This latest collaboration with Sodexo…

PoliMOVE Wins Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES 2022 in First Head-to-Head Self-Driving Car Race

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.54

…software.” Halo, a remote-piloted driverless car service operating on T-Mobile’s 5G network served as the official pace car, leading each set of IAC teams off of pit lane and completing a warmup lap at speeds of 65 to 80 mph before the start of each round. Bridgette Foster from Las Vegas sang the national anthem. PoliMOVE competed against TUM Autonomous Motorsport in the final round of the competition. In addition, PoliMOVE set the fastest speed record on an oval with a top speed of 173 mph. “Today was the real birth of autonomous racing,” said Prof. Sergio Savaresi, team lead…

Indy Autonomous Challenge Readies for Next Self-Driving Race at CES 2022

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.20

…@ CES. It has also selected Halo powered by T-Mobile 5G as the official pace car. The IAC said it will make history at the Consumer Electronics Show with the first high-speed, head-to-head autonomous racecar competition at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. “The Indy Autonomous Challenge is working to advance tech that will speed the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles and deployments of advanced driver-assistance systems,” said Paul Mitchell, president and CEO of Indianapolis-based Energy Systems Network (ESN). “We are proud to partner with these sponsors as they work with us to push limits for…

Sarcos Marks Industrial Exoskeleton Milestone, Begins Trading on Nasdaq

Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31

…off, added sensors including stereo cameras, and worked with T-Mobile on 5G. This machine can go into environments where it's better not to have humans, such as height or in a nuclear power plant. The XT can be operated as an avatar with virtually no latency to perform highly dexterous tasks. There is tremendous interest from power generation, construction, infrastructure maintenance and repair, and oil and gas. My personal gut instinct is that the Guardian XT will be an even bigger hit in its early hears than the XO. There are no issues of training operators or walking around with…

Sarcos Robotics and T-Mobile to Integrate 5G Into Guardian XT Teleoperation Robot

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Sarcos Corp. and T-Mobile U.S. Inc. last week announced that they are collaborating to integrate T-Mobile 5G networking into the Sarcos Guardian XT dexterous mobile industrial robot. The Guardian XT robot is a remote-controlled robotic system designed to help people safely work in hazardous conditions, performing tasks such as lifting heavy materials or using power tools at significant heights. The companies said 5G will improve performance and response time for remote operations so the robots can perform tasks more quickly and more in tune with their operator’s movements. “The Sarcos Guardian XT robot requires a highly reliable, low-latency 5G network…

Chinese Service Robotics Startup CloudMinds Raises $150M in Series B Funding

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…(IPO). The company protested but complied, and it rebranded its cloud-connected units in the U.S. as Wright Robotics and T-Mobile US. Shanghai Urban Construction Investment and Guosheng Group led CloudMinds' latest funding round. In 2019, the company received $300 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund.