Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.10
June 24, 2022
…open for applications for its second cohort. MassRobotics and AWS said they are working to help robotics startups experiment and innovate while connecting with AWS customers. “At AWS, we are dedicated to investing in the future of robotics and providing world-class services to help companies build, deploy, and manage robots,” stated Michael MacKenzie, general manager for the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and robotics at Amazon Web Services. “We're thrilled to have had such a global and diverse cohort for our inaugural AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator,” he added. “It's clear that startups are driving robotic innovation, and we are excited…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.02
June 14, 2023
…efficiency of its warehouse automation solutions. The partnership with AWS will allow Addverb to leverage the cloud platform's machine learning, analytics, and Internet of Things, or IoT, connectivity capabilities to enhance the capabilities of its robotic solutions. Founded in 2016, Addverb offers AI-enabled fixed & flexible automation solutions. The company said its AI- driven solutions and software are designed specifically to serve the global e-ecommerce, warehouse distribution and manufacturing industries. Addverb is a global technology company with headquarters in North America, India, Netherlands, and Singapore. AWS helps increase Addverb's deployment time by 50% In response to the increasing disruptions and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.91
September 09, 2021
…has been an integral part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) since our beginning. Today, more startups build on AWS than any other cloud provider, and many of our customers started using AWS at an early stage to help scale their business and drive innovation. For example, Lunar Outpost, a pioneer in lunar surface robotics, uses AWS RoboMaker to test and validate robotics software in a simulated lunar environment, enabling it to speed up robot delivery and reduce software bugs in deployment. Let's look at how AWS Robotics is helping robotics startups use cloud technology to establish a scalable infrastructure for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.86
November 29, 2021
…event, Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of AWS IoT RoboRunner, a new service intended to make it easier for companies to build and deploy applications for robotic fleets. The unit of Amazon.com Inc. also announced the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator in partnership with MassRobotics. AWS re:Invent, which is being held this week in Las Vegas and virtually, is Amazon Web Services' annual event featuring numerous technology announcements and user workshops. Amazon said that the AWS IoT RoadRunner and the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator reflect its ongoing commitment to helping robotics developers, including through the AWS RoboMaker simulation service.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.42
July 15, 2021
…autonomous driving with its Robotic Drive Cloud offering on AWS. The Robotic Drive tooling and services are available now and can reduce development and test times, as well as total cost of ownership to customers. The partners said they can offer a tangible competitive advantage to developers of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. “Creating this relationship will help our mutual customers accelerate their ADAS/AD [autonomous driving] programs while increasing flexibility and optimizing cost,” stated Luz G. Mauch, executive vice president for automotive at DXC Luxoft. “Together with AWS, we are moving toward a cloud offering called the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.87
March 01, 2023
…buildings, shopping malls, and airports in Japan, said SEQSENSE. AWS adds capabilities to SQ-2 security robot SEQSENSE said its mobile robot's core technologies include localization, navigation, and 3D mapping using a super-wide field-of-view lidar. The company developed its original sensor to enable the robot to navigate in narrow aisles or crowded environments. SEQSENSE's 3D lidar technology. Source: AWS The robot also has a high-resolution camera, a 360-degree camera with three fisheye lenses, microphones, and speakers. Operators can monitor the robot remotely and communicate through it. SQ-2 can move around for up to six hours with a 1.5-hour charge, and it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.14
June 07, 2022
…powering its Flippy 2 and Flippy Lite systems using AWS RoboMaker. The companies said this will enable Miso to run up to 50 simulations at once, helping it to turn prototypes into functional products at a faster rate. “Integrating into AWS RoboMaker has been a gamechanger for us to scale our products and make sure the software and its updates are ready to deploy with units in the field,” said Chris Kruger, chief technology officer of Miso Robotics. “We went from running 12 simulations a month with single units to doing 100 in a night. By testing hundreds of configurations…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.53
May 11, 2021
…20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that “ROS 2 Foxy is the most secure and reliable ROS distribution to date for production robotics application development.” While AWS RoboMaker no longer supports ROS Kinetic, its support of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy for simulation and development does include Navigation2 (Nav2). Nav2 “is the second generation of the ROS Navigation software stack, enabling robots to move autonomously from Point A to B,” wrote Matthew Hansen, principal solutions architect at AWS Robotics, in a blog post last week. “Nav2 includes new features not previously available in ROS that help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.70
January 09, 2022
…fulfillment. Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services recently launched AWS IoT RoboRunner. It is a new service for building workflow and fleet management software that will help integrate robots from various manufacturers so they can function together. RoboRunner provides a centralized data repository, a model registry, and a registry for tracking all of the tasks performed by the robots for the entire fleet. AWS said its service will benefit enterprises that operate fleets of AMRs, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and robot arms. In addition, AWS has partnered with MassRobotics to establish the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator. In that program, selected…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.26
March 01, 2020
…cloud. We are also seeing companies such as Citrix, AWS and Microsoft Azure offer cloud-based desktops.” The shift from on-premises desktop to virtual machines suggests the security risks, too, have migrated to the cloud. But human behavior, as it turns out, remains a bigger security risk than the holes in the company firewall and the cloud. A Famous IP Theft Case One of the most high-profile IP theft cases in the CAD industry occurred in 2002, when the source code of a pre- release version of SolidWorks was stolen. The culprit, Shekhar Verma, was a former employee of an outsourced…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.01
June 30, 2021
…story and look at how Amazon Robotics is using AWS cloud technologies to deliver these amazing innovations. The next evolution of Amazon robots At surface level, there’s nothing new about using robots in industrial settings. People have been using them to automate undifferentiated, repetitive tasks since the mid-20th century. However, traditional robots have been limited in capability and have generally required extremely consistent conditions. A simple change in workflow or environment could mean complete reconfigurations with significant downtime on a production line, for example. In today’s fast-paced industrial facilities, at Amazon or otherwise, there are many different situations where the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.74
February 09, 2018
…to the tech giant’s hugely successful cloud computing business, AWS. With AWS, Amazon first built out infrastructure that could serve its own needs, and, once that was established, began selling the same tools to third parties. SWA could be on a similar track. As independent analyst Ben Thompson put it, Amazon’s ultimate goal “is to take a cut of all economic activity.” AWS lets Amazon siphon some of the profits of digital businesses by selling them the infrastructure they need to reach their customers, and SWA could do something for companies with physical products to deliver There’s no guarantee, of…
