Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.08
July 26, 2024
…free humans from repetitive outdoor labor. Specializing in the lawn care industry, Greenzie develops software to enhance the capabilities of commercial mowers through collaborative robotics operator assistance and autonomous vehicle technologies. Greenzie’s primary customers are commercial landscapers and lawn maintenance companies - which Foxglove said includes the largest landscaper in the U.S. - servicing large turf areas like athletic fields, industrial parks, and educational campuses. Data collection, analysis, sharing required manual effort Before adopting Foxglove, Greenzie faced significant challenges in data management, incident analysis, and debugging. Its process required long syncs to get robot operating system (ROS) bag files, sometimes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.60
March 22, 2024
…mowing and its Verdie robot used for edging, trimming lawns and bushes, and blowing leaves. To accomplish these tasks ES-1 needs to understand the semantics of the world, create a map that can be used for coverage planning and highlight the edges of the workable area. In this case, trimming, edging or mowing grass are the integral areas. ES1 achieves this through dense prediction of a world state with a single model - similar to ChatGPT for language - but for spatial AI. The robots are designed to be put on the property and turned on. Using only AI, they…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.33
January 29, 2024
…all work on “non-floorcare innovations, including air purification, robotic lawn mowing and education.” “We are disappointed with the Company's 2023 performance - but our focus turns now to the future,” Miller said. “Along with the restructuring actions announced today, and with a refreshed turnaround-focused leadership team, we see a clear path to reinvigorating our outstanding brand, product performance and underlying technology.” Robots found across Amazon’s product listings and distribution system To keep up with growing distribution demands, Amazon has deployed robots at its warehouses and dabbled in both aerial drone and land-based last-mile delivery. Acquisitions are nothing new for Amazon.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.73
December 01, 2023
…robot vacuum their home or take care of the lawn, it is in industrial applications that robotics have made the biggest impact. State-of-the-art manufacturing processes are unthinkable without industrial robots handling part of the workload, whether it’s handling, welding, or assembling, which are the three most common applications of newly installed industrial robots in 2022. Based on data from the International Robotics Federation (IFR), the operational stock of industrial robots has tripled over the past decade, with almost four million robots in use across various industries by the end of 2022. According to the IFR, Asia leads the way in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.93
October 01, 2023
…board to showcase this revolutionary product in the central Ohio region,” said Brandt. “EMI is a visionary in the lawn and landscaping industry. Their decision to use the AMRs will inspire other landscaping businesses to consider and implement this new technology.” Wehinger said his crews are excited about the potential of the autonomous mowers. “It might be interesting to see a self-driving mower at work, but we envision that this will soon become something that is commonplace,” Wehinger said. “We can't wait to put them to work for our clients.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.69
May 30, 2023
…up, and then we said, “We don't have a lawn mower.” We came out with 15066 to give some more information, and we still have more to do about it. But I will say in putting forth the concept and trying to frame safety around it, all of a sudden, a lot of development work by robotics manufacturers and integrators occurred. The reality is, to build safety into any given sort of machine, it costs money. If a robot manufacturer has a notion that there is no market for it, why spend money on development? Let's be realistic. We don't…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.07
May 22, 2023
…to highlight easy lead-through-teaching of welding joints on a lawn mower deck, said the company. FANUC claimed that its entire series of CRX robots is reliable, flexible, and can run for eight years without maintenance. Interactive programming allows operators to teach points using hand guidance or a Tablet TP with drag-and-drop icons. FANUC CR-35iB cobot designed for strength FANUC said its CR-35iB is the industry’s strongest collaborative robot with a new 50 kg payload capacity. It also has a large work envelope and a small installation footprint to work well in tight spaces. A streamlined and lighter mechanical unit includes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.59
May 21, 2023
…to replace older versions of its remotely operated robotic lawn mowers. “These mowers are an upgrade to our already innovative remote-controlled robotic mowers and will continue to help our customers solve their business challenges,” said Michael Brandt, CEO of RC Mowers, in a press release. “Landscaping contractors, public works departments, park systems and road departments can not only use the upgraded R Series to help them solve labor shortage issues; they can mow hazardous terrain safely as they improve working conditions and efficiency and capture previously out-of-reach niche revenue,” he said. Founded in 2018, RC Mowers said it manufactures autonomous…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.50
April 10, 2023
…project designed to make integrating new components into autonomous lawn mower easier. CANfetti is an implementation of CANOpen, a communication protocol based on the Controller Area Network, or CAN bus. Scythe Robotics uses an automotive-grade CAN bus as the “backbone” of its autonomous mower, the M.52. The company said it developed CANfentti because it found other open-source CAN frameworks “too constraining.” “Given the complex communication needs across the range of specialized components in Scythe M.52, we knew we’d have to leverage a higher-level CAN protocol,” said Matt Quick, lead firmware engineer at Scythe, in a statement. “A number of our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.04
February 27, 2023
…meet industry demand for its autonomous and remotely operated lawn mowers. “This new facility is a result of the unprecedented success RC Mowers has experienced since our inception,” stated Michael Brandt, CEO of RC Mowers. “We have doubled our revenue every year since we opened in 2018, and with the rollout of our new Autonomous Mowing Robot (AMR), we expect to continue this exceptional growth.” Brandt said that along with the need for more factory space, the company has been expanding its workforce to meet production demands. The additional workspace will also allow RC Mowers to hire more office workers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.14
January 26, 2023
Scythe Robotics, a maker of autonomous lawn mowers, this week announced that it had secured $42 million in a Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to about $60 million. The Boulder, Colo.-based company said it will use the funding to help it deliver on the 7,500 preorders for the M.52 autonomous lawnmower. Energy Impact Partners led the funding round, with additional backing from ArcTerm Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and the Amazon Alexa Fund. “It’s a huge vote of confidence from a diverse space of investors,” Jack Morrison, Scythe Robotics CEO, told Robotics 24/7 in an interview. “We’re really proud…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.45
January 20, 2023
…machinery designed for the agriculture industry. Its products include “lawn mowers, utility vehicles, construction equipment, agriculture tractors, and hay equipment,” according to its website. Kubota’s M5 tractors start at around $50,763 and were designed to be used by professionals in the agriculture space. The series was launched in 2015. Sabanto’s autonomy kit is designed to retrofit the M5 series with self-driving technologies. That in turn helps companies address labor challenges, Sabanto said, since the tractors can now operate autonomously and work continuously. “We are completely disrupting the way the industry views autonomous equipment, and we are bringing in partners who…
