Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.10
September 24, 2023
…Partnership (MassMEP), FORGE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MassHire, and MassRobotics. The third annual Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up included networking and educational opportunities. Source: CAM Mash-Up includes student activities This year's Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up activities included an “on-deck” STEM Challenge. It brought together 300 students from Innovation Pathways, a workforce development program that connects students with career opportunities in high-demand industries. There was also a “speed networking” session for diverse community college students participating in the state’s MassBridge training program. They spoke with company representatives and saw exhibits of additive manufacturing, robotics, and photonics projects that promise to reshape multiple industries, from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.92
July 05, 2022
…drones provided through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. The MassRobotics member said its Scout System is a “drone-in-a-box, turnkey” data service. The company claimed that it is the first drone to receive U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights without a human operator on site. Airobotics develops 'drone-in-a-box' offering Founded in 2014, Airobotics offers autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and data-analysis and visualization platforms for the industrial, homeland security, and smart city services markets. The Petah Tikva, Israel-based company described its Optimus System as an “industrial-grade, drone-in-a-box” (DIB) system consisting of the Optimus Drone and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.83
November 04, 2022
…go to the ISO [International Organization for Standards], as MassRobotics is doing. With an international body, you can have more open discussion. Right now, there are many efforts with a few people in pockets. Funding, partnerships, and industry challenges Avidbots recently raised $70 million in Series C funding. How is its market expansion going? Molina: We'll soon expand our product portfolio and add-ons, and we're also expanding to new geographic areas. We're at a beautiful inflection point for robotics. We're still at the beginning, but be aware that with commoditization lowering the costs of robots, there will be explosive growth.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.77
September 04, 2021
…organizations such as the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), MassRobotics, and the Robot Operations Group (ROG)? “We are keeping abreast and have a dialogue with robotics vendors,” Sakharkar said. “Ultimately, orchestration is critical in two dimensions. We bring our expertise in contract logistics to connecting the dots and finding optimized orchestration for any given situation, based on customer needs.” “Second, in terms of collaborating with vendors, we work with best-of-breed technologies,” he said. “We're looking at the latest technologies and POCs [proofs of concept] and then see what use cases to progress further.” While there is a lot of talk…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.49
August 12, 2024
…Inc., Apparel Robotics, Southwest Research Institute, Interface Technologies, and MassRobotics Description: The apparel industry is a manufacturing sector that is ripe for automation and a keen strategic focus for ARM. The Institute has funded several robotics projects centered on apparel manufacturing with each building on prior outputs and lessons learned. This project will design, develop, and test a robotic system that automates six operations involved in T-shirt manufacturing to demonstrate sewn garment automation feasibility in a manufacturing environment. Demonstration of rapid TPC welding at scale Principal investigator: RTX Technology Research Center Project Team: Carnegie Mellon University, Wason Technology LLC., Collins…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.43
September 30, 2021
…laparoscopic surgery.” Activ Surgical is a resident member of MassRobotics, a collective dedicated to nurturing the Massachusetts robotics community. The company is looking to expand globally, starting with Europe. “We have filed the paperwork for CE Mark and expect approval by the end of this year or early next,” Kim noted. Bobby Yazdani, founder of Cota Capital, will join Activ Surgical's board of directors. He has more than three decades of entrepreneurial experience, including more than 20 years of investing in technology companies. “The addition of seven new investors spanning the medical and technology industries is a wonderful testament to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.11
October 28, 2021
…industrial markets. American Robotics is a member of the MassRobotics consortium. American Robotics markets its Scout autonomous system as a “drone in a box” under a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. Scout was the first drone to receive U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for automated beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights without a human operator on site. The Ondas subsidiaries will move their business functions to an 18,000-sq.-ft. facility that will include 6,000 sq. ft. of flex lab space. The Waverly Oaks Park in Waltham is also home to Vecna Robotics and Veo Robotics. Reese Mozer, co-founder and CEO of American…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.08
May 04, 2023
…a variety of industries, as well as with the MassRobotics interoperability standard. “Since we started in 2015, we focused on the broad automation sector—drones, mobile robots, and more recently, ASRS and semi-autonomous carts,” Waters told Robotics 24/7. “We started by selling charging hardware to companies building drone-in-a-box systems and saw great challenges in precision landing.” As the drone industry pivoted from consumer markets to industrial applications such as remote inspection, it had to overcome the Federal Aviation Administration's restrictions on beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights, he recalled. However, changes in FAA regulations and increasing demand for infrastructure and other data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.04
September 19, 2023
…the de facto standard in robotics.” From BattleBots and MassRobotics Innovation Challenge winners to sensor fusion for patient care and ROS 2-based autonomous vehicles, Kria enables new users to adopt adaptive computing, he said. “With the REV Robotics' DC brushless motor, like a Lego 2-in-1 kit, there's a connector to a simple robot arm and a foam ball shooter,” said Khona. “They're inherently unstable systems with lots of calculations on the back end. Dropping a ball into the chute shouldn't affect its trajectory.” “We're also looking to integrate a vision camera for shooting balls,” he said. “We hope it will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.03
March 21, 2022
…founded American Robotics in 2016. The company is a MassRobotics member and is moving from Marlborough, Mass., to Waltham, Mass. It applies innovations in robot autonomy, machine vision, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. American Robotics said it has designed its fully autonomous Scout drones for rugged, real-world environments. It offers them through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Ardenna provides data for maintenance decisions Ardenna is a spinoff of Bihrle Applied Research Inc., which was founded in 1973 as an aeronautical research and development firm. In 2014, Bihrle partnered with BNSF Railway and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Pathfinder Program to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.99
March 24, 2021
…as the Robot Industries Association (RIA) Interoperability Task Force, MassRobotics' Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Interoperability Working Group, and the Robot Operations Group. Surviving coronavirus disruptions and avoiding vendor lock-in Although automotive manufacturing, one of the biggest users of industrial automation, experienced a slowdown last year because of U.S. trade disputes with China and supply chain disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, many e-commerce and logistics providers have described an acceleration of demand. Increases that were predicted for five years coincided first with staffing shortages and then the need for social distancing. “A lot has changed in the past year,” acknowledged Prather.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.97
February 28, 2022
…up to help enable interoperability across robot brands. The MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Working Group is developing standards that will “allow organizations to deploy autonomous mobile robots from multiple vendors and have them work together in the same environment, better realizing the promise of warehouse and factory automation.” Version 1.0 was released last May, and it was demonstrated in October 2021. The group includes Mobile Industrial Robots, AutoGuide, and others. 4. Cybersecurity protects critical data as automation uses more of it Cybersecurity might not immediately come to mind when it comes to technologies advancing AMRs, but that’s changing. With AI, interoperability,…
