Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.13
July 25, 2022
…offers business value proposition Unlike other companies such as Husqvarna, which make robotic lawnmowers for homeowners, RC Mowers focuses on the landscaping industry. “We're developing a fully autonomous commercial mower, not a Roomba,” said Kubista, referring to iRobot's delayed launch of its Terra t7 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Consumer robots are good, but they're meant for small lawns, and you need to run a guide wire,” he said. “They mow every day while you're sleeping or away.” By contrast, the commercial lawn and landscaping industry has about $107 billion in total revenue, according to Kubista. “About half is from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 67.86
July 23, 2022
…in common? Humans who want to mark their accomplishments. Husqvarna AB has developed a new program for its Automower to sing “Happy Birthday” for the Mars Curiosity Rover. Curiosity, the most advanced data-collection system sent to Mars to date, was engineered to sing “Happy Birthday” on its first birthday. “Sadly, since 2012, its birthdays have gone uncelebrated in order to save battery life,” stated Husqvarna. “As our robots on earth are so loved and so much part of family life, we thought we´d extend that love all the way into space,” said Linda Lindqvist, product manager for robotics at Husqvarna.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.51
February 12, 2022
…savings.” “Our solution is hardware-agnostic,” he added. “We use Husqvarna machines because of the open APIs [application programming interfaces].” Does My Goat expect major mower providers to offer autonomous systems? “Most are focused on the hardware, and we provide the software,” replied Amrhein. “The traditional open-wheel landscape providers—Kuboto, Toro, and Deere—they see that autonomy is important, but they haven't really looked at battery-powered vehicles as important. The status quo of a big guy in a big machine is limited by daylight and the weather.” Multiple “Goats” can maintain geofenced “pens” with minimal human oversight. Source: My Goat My Goat pitches…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.81
November 01, 2019
…their owners (Fig. 2). Current examples include iRobot’s Roomba, Husqvarna’s Automower robot lawn mower and Maytronics Dolphin Nautilus CC Plus robotic pool cleaner. Smart home technology developers, however, have grander plans, in which they foresee robots growing in complexity and value. They anticipate that these machines will eventually assume such household tasks as cooking and serving meals. Social robots, on the other hand, will be the soul of home systems, providing owners with some level of empathetic interaction (Fig. 3). Fig. 3: Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ robot aims to provide older adults living alone with social companionship via multimodal interaction. This…
