Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 41.69
March 22, 2024
…also revealed partnerships with AI-driven organization GreyOrange, technology company Ericsson and Canadian retailer Indro Robotics. From air and ground in the warehouse Cypher calls its offering ‘The Future of Warehouse Robotics’ because it combines both aerial and ground robotics technology into a single, integrated package. The Captis AGV can find its way around warehouses all on its own. It won’t bump into people or objects, and requires no infrastructure changes. When it’s time for cycle counting, it uses drone technology attached to the ground robot with a tether - used to power the drone and for real-time data transfer. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.99
October 11, 2023
…Futures. Previous investors, including SignalFire, Hillsven, Pelion Ventures, Holman, Ericsson, Goodyear Ventures, PICUS Capital, and Thursday Ventures, also participated. “Autonomous robotic systems have broken free from R&D departments and are now being deployed at scale to drive business outcomes and resilient operations,” said Kasper Sage, managing partner at BMW i Ventures. “Their proliferation across mission-critical functions, as well as support tasks for humans in various industries underscores the urgent need for seamless data management and orchestration across robotic endpoints,” he added. “Formant is the operating system underpinning the future of the automated enterprise.” BMW i Ventures is the independent venture…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.38
October 31, 2022
…shippers to transport goods competitively and sustainably. GE Appliances, Ericsson partner for pilot Einride has worked with GE Appliances to deploy a connected vehicle fleet since October 2021. Since then, GE Appliances has doubled its fleet of Einride Trucks and plans to use Einride Saga to reduce emissions throughout its supply chain. Earlier this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) granted the first U.S. approval for operations of Einride's electric, autonomous vehicle. The company, whose U.S. headquarters are in New York, worked closely with GE Appliances and state and county officials. They conducted the Tennessee pilot over two…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.01
June 12, 2022
Turkcell and Ericsson last week announced that they have successfully performed a 5G industrial use-case demonstration of Milvus Robotics' mobile robots safely crossing in a real warehouse environment. The demo used Turkcell’s 5G private network, provided by Ericsson. Ankara, Turkey-based Milvus Robotics, an Industry 4.0 partner of Ericsson, provided the autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The deployment followed a successful demonstration earlier this year in Turkcell's test laboratory that the companies claimed was the first one in Turkey. Milvus Robotics finds AMRs work in 5G The test used Milvus Robotics’ SEIT500 production AMRs for materials handling within the warehouse. The robots,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.00
February 09, 2022
…Kollmorgen yesterday said it is performing 5G tests with Ericsson to explore future mobile robot capabilities. “We want to continue to push the boundaries of mobile robot applications with our NDC Solutions platform,” said Peter Bladh, director of research and development at Kollmorgen. “5G holds the key to unlock more advanced routing of intralogistics, generate better insights, improve predictive maintenance, and speed up commissioning. It is also likely going to be the future standard of industrial communication infrastructure.” The Radford, Va.-based company said its NDC platform enables vehicle builders such as Toyota Material Handling Europe, Jungheinrich AG, and Mitsubishi Logisnext…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.39
January 05, 2022
…with participation from Hillsven, Pelion, Goodyear Ventures, Thursday Ventures, Ericsson, Picus Capital, and Holman Strategic Ventures. “Our Series A round was oversubscribed, and we've been a nested bet,” said Linnell. “We're assuming that robotics as a service [RaaS] will succeed and that companies will need us.” “Our platform is more complicated than TikTok, but there has been tremendous interest from strategic partners rather than traditional venture capital firms,” he noted. “We'll expand our network radically through new partners.” “For instance, Goodyear has realized that the future of transport is not just cars and trucks,” Linnell said. “It's interested in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.92
November 05, 2021
…largest fleet of heavy electric trucks for customers such as Coca-Cola, SKF, and Lidl. The company's technical collaborators include Ericsson and Siemens, and it has also partnered with customers Oatly, Bridgestone, and GE Appliances, a Haier company. Since Oct. 1, 2020, Einride said its partners have seen a 90% decrease in CO2 emissions with electrical transport, while matching the cost of diesel. Einride will officially establish a U.S. headquarters in New York, where parts of the leadership team will be based. In addition to its headquarters, the company plans to open up regional offices in Austin, San Francisco and in…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 46.78
July 12, 2021
Formant is a data and operations platform that helps robotics companies manage and scale their fleets. Our platform provides out of the box solutions for teleoperation and observability, as well as APIs and SDKs for building custom applications. Formant has raised over $18 million from leading investors, including Signalfire, PICUS Capital, Goodyear Ventures, and Ericsson.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.92
May 06, 2021
…Existing investors EQT Ventures, Plum Alley Investments, Norrsken VC, Ericsson and NordicNinja VC also participated. “With our global reach and expertise, we want to act as a catalyst for the next generation of logistics power players, as an investor and as a partner,” said Jeppe Høier, Partner at Maersk Growth. “We look forward to being part of Einride’s mission to electrify and decarbonize inland transport globally.” “The road freight market is at an inflection point, with consumer demand and regulation pushing shippers to look for sustainable alternatives,” said Jessica Schultz, general partner at Northzone. “Einride has one of the most…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.45
October 09, 2020
…participation from EQT Ventures fund, Nordic Ninja VC, and Ericsson Ventures. Norrsken VC can also be becoming a member of Einride’s advisory board. The capital will likely be used to quickly monitor the official launch of its Einride Pods, the corporate stated. Einride acknowledged that startups in AI and robotics had been upended, and even shuttered altogether, within the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The corporate contests that demand contactless supply choices - not coincidentally the type it hopes to offer - has grown due to COVID-19. Einride stated it’s maintained a “sturdy stream of recent partnerships,” together with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.38
October 07, 2020
…a yearlong early access program that NVIDIA says involved Ericsson, Foster + Partners, ILM and more than 40 other companies evaluating the platform and providing feedback to the NVIDIA engineering team. “Physical and virtual worlds will increasingly be fused,” Huang said. “Omniverse gives teams of creators spread around the world or just working from home the ability to collaborate on a single design as easily as editing a document. This is the beginning of the Star Trek Holodeck, realized at last.” Omniverse is based on Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) format for universal interchange between 3D applications. The platform also…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.87
March 25, 2019
…connections will use 5G worldwide by 2024, according to Ericsson. From supply chain management, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, to retail, to name just a few, 5G is poised to disrupt a plethora of the world’s biggest industries and global marketplaces. 7 INDUSTRIES 5G TECHNOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM (and/or Disrupt) 1. Supply Chain Management Installing 5G-enabled IoT sensors on products could easily make a large amount of data could available to stakeholders in the supply chain in real time. The data may include location, temperature, moisture, pressure, and other information that can be crucial to properly managing products in a supply chain.…
