Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.38
June 05, 2019
…supply chain. Download Now! More PINC Resources Latest Drone Delivery News Uber Seeks Approval for San Diego Drone Deliveries Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.56
May 23, 2019
…begun to deliver pizza by drones in New Zealand. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, used drones to deliver Chipotle burritos to Virginia Tech’s campus. And Zipline is using drones to deliver medicines faster in Ghana and other markets in Africa. These examples may seem small today, but I believe they are monumental for the development of drone technology. Early adopters will be lightweight products like pizzas and medicines, due to weight restrictions. These smaller drones can only physically and legally carry packages under ten pounds, and Amazon Prime Air restricts their package weight to half that, at five pounds or less.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.25
May 13, 2019
As reported by Bloomberg, an offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers. The subsidiary, Wing Aviation LLC, now has the same certifications that smaller airlines receive from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation. It plans to begin routine deliveries of small consumer items in two rural communities in Virginia within months, the company said. From Bloomberg: Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval Recode reports that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.83
May 01, 2019
…“SparkFun’s new edge development, based on a collaboration with Google and Ambiq, supports TensorFlow lite and is priced around $15,” says John Crupi, vice president of edge analytics at Greenwave Systems. “NVIDIA just announced a GPU-based edge board called Jetson Nano for $99. And Qualcomm’s AI Engine runs on its newer generation Snapdragon-based boards. Ultimately, the best processor type will depend on power requirements, cost and use cases.” One Way to Eliminate the Bottleneck As impressive as the advances in the digital sector are, some developers have begun to look beyond conventional technology to explore new types of processors and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.14
April 30, 2019
…can both receive SMS alerts, email notifications and even Google notifications for every movement a shipment makes. Combined with the upcoming electronic logging devices (ELD) mandate, the use of smart tech to track last mile logistics will grow. 4. Analytics Will Drive Last Mile Logistics Costs Down The amount of information coming from automated systems and smart technology can have another purpose when applied through analytics. Analytics allow supply chain entities to isolate the cost-impacting factors across all shipments. Although subtle changes may not have a major impact on initial costs, data analytics provide a means of pushing costs to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.83
April 11, 2019
…comes from a rich background of autonomous robotics at Google, Toyota, Qualcomm, General Atomics and Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics). Founded in 2015, Canvas has already showcased some impressive technologies, including a fully autonomous cart system that positions the startup as a direct competitor with the likes of Bay Area-based Fetch. Canvas Technology raised a $15 million Series A led by Playground Global. Canvas is led by Jonathan McQueen, who spent six years at Qualcomm. The Canvas Autonomous Cart was on display at Playground’s open house roughly this time last year, doing an impressive job avoiding people and obstacles in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.18
March 27, 2019
…that are said to have the same potential as Google’s search algorithms,” says 3D Hubs co-founder and CEO, Bram de Zwart. “This latest funding round will give us the power to make manufacturing outsourcing even smarter and simpler, and we couldn’t be more excited.” “The combination of 3D Hubs’ proprietary software, high-quality network of vetted suppliers spread across four continents and most visited website among engineers makes it a unique company with tremendous global potential,” says Ilan Goudsmit, investment manager at Endeit Capital. “3D Hubs’ software instantly automates all steps of the quoting to sourcing process—based on datasets from millions…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.54
March 25, 2019
…AI has already crept into average consumer tech, evident in iPhone's personal assistant Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, and in Google's autocompletion of user sentences. NVIDIA's betting it will become part of enterprise workflow, largely driven by the parallel-processing power of the GPU. The acquisition, new products, and featured speakers at the NVIDIA's GTC reinforces this belief. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces the JETSON Nano, a $99 AI computer for the maker community. Image courtesy of NVIDIA.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.48
March 14, 2019
…as a service, and competitors like Microsoft, IBM, and Google took years to respond. This is what allowed Amazon to capture the market share. They created a service in response to internal needs. Then they began to look at the problem differently, and AWS came into the world. Amazon’s Current Logistic’s Fleet Amazon’s current transportation fleet is impressive in size. Not when you stack it up against UPS or FedEx, but they only started building it in the last few years. That makes it impressive. So impressive in fact, that Morgan Stanley Analyst Ravi Shanker assessed that it’s too big…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.98
February 01, 2019
…System include: Ford, Stanley Black and Decker, Goodyear, 3M, Google’s ATAP, BMW, ProtoLabs, Owens Corning, L3, TerraPower, Medtronic, Continental AG, Applied Materials, TECT Aerospace, US Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, MITRE and educational institutions such as MIT, University of Texas, Texas A&M and Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, the nation’s first high school to install a metal 3D printer. Additional investors in the Series E funding round include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Panasonic and Techtronic Industries, as well as previous venture capital investors in the company, including Lux Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Kleiner Perkins. More…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.54
January 10, 2019
The Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) lab focuses on the future of products and production, using problem-solving methods accessible to any company. Discover how the team used the Formlabs Form 2 and High Temp Resin to develop a process enabling them to bypass a complicated supply chain and cut turnaround time for a component by 85% and saving over $100,000. The team, according to Formlabs, was stuck. They were in the pre-production manufacturing phase dialing in the overmolding process for a wearable device, and needed faster results. The process was novel, the supply chain was complex, and they had…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.89
December 19, 2018
…an active investor in the robotics sector. GV (formerly Google Ventures) also joined this round along with existing investors, including Dream Incubator, Matrix Partners, and Playground Global. RightHand Robotics intends to use the funds to expand business and technical teams and broaden its suite of product applications in support of the company’s growing customer base. “This funding is a testament to our team’s intense focus on solving the critical challenge all our customers face - namely, how to respond to booming e-commerce growth given a scarcity of labor,” said Leif Jentoft, co-founder of RightHand Robotics. “We are aggressively investing in…
