Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.38
May 03, 2023
…VDA 5050 connector open-source. OTTO said it enables any ROS-based AMR to be controlled by a VDA5050 Central Control—including competitors’ systems if they adopt the standard. This also ensures quick compatibility and accelerates global support for the standard, said the company, whose open-source code can be accessed on GitHub. OTTO Motors added that it has conducted rigorous tests to verify the functionality of VDA 5050 support in its AMRs. These tests proved that VDA 5050 compatibility can enable seamless communication and integration between AMRs and third-party controllers, it said. One of these tests was conducted by industry leader NVIDIA, which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.37
May 06, 2022
…which will provide access to a Robot Operating System (ROS) infrastructure, which uses physics-based simulation, as well as experimentation with hardware to test and deploy robotic devices Investment will help BU admit more graduate students in robotics The Massachusetts infrastructure investment will expand and enhance BU’s existing R&D facilities while enriching the robotics courses offered at BU. It will allow for an increased enrollment in the university’s graduate-level robotics degree program by up to 80 more students per year, or five times the current capacity, MassTech said. The capabilities of the new RASTIC facility align with Massachusetts’ robotics industry strengths…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
May 20, 2022
…interact with Ally,” Tolson noted. “While we provide full ROS [Robot Operating System] and programmatic interfaces, we also have low-code and no-code interfaces.” “For our no-code interface, we’re developing what we call Ally Apprentice, in which Ally can be taught to perform a task through demonstration,” he said. “In the back end, Ally Apprentice uses a collection of different AI technologies such as Neural Descriptor Fields to understand objects, machine vision with skeletal pose tracking, and simulation with deep reinforcement learning to train a set of skills and tasks. Those skills can also be applied to new tasks people want…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.34
June 05, 2023
…used it to develop Autoware. Autoware is based on ROS 2 following best-in-class software engineering practices, said the Autoware Foundation. Hundreds of companies around the world are using it, with field operation tests in about 20 countries with 30 types of vehicles, said the foundation. Autonoma to integrate data, simulations AWF is working closely with Autonoma, which was founded by previous IAC competitors from Auburn University and Politecnico di Milano. Autonoma said it is integrating its vehicle dynamics, tire dynamics, sensor models, vehicle interfaces, simulation framework, and 3D racetrack environments into AWSIM, allowing the IAC teams to test the performance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
May 18, 2021
…a robot's model, and using the Robot Operating System (ROS) as an open-source “bridge.” The group decided that the data to be shared should be in two messages: A setup message A status message (to include future destination) It also chose JSON over Websockets as the protocol to be used in the initial standard, which could incorporate other methods in the future. MassRobotics has made the message descriptions and script tool publicly available in its GitHub repository. “With the shared format for communications, each robot manufacturer can decide how to implement it,” Ryden said. “The sections are pretty broad—if they…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
February 28, 2023
…laser cutting, printed circuit board (PCB) design, CNC workstations, ROS visualization, Gazebo simulators, and an array of FANUC’s collaborative robots. This will enable PSU’s robotics bachelor’s degree program to offer courses in electronics, mechanics, microcontrollers, manufacturing technologies, and programming. “While most robotics programs focus on teaching students how to build or operate machines, through PSU’s Cluster Learning Model, robotics students will have opportunities to work in teams on real-world projects in collaboration with businesses, non-profit organizations, and other outside entities,” boasted the university last April. “We accepted a first class. It’s just a pilot with 12 students in it,” shared…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
April 18, 2021
…of affordable mobile manipulation,” added Walker. “We both have ROS-native systems and can merge behaviors and the user experience. We'll be able to reduce size and cost as we integrate further.” “Manufacturers are the 'first movers' with precise machine tending,” he said. “The robot is able to fit into situations where workers already have a process. It can reach into a machine or collect parts for a tray or sampling without a huge apparatus. With our mobile manipulator, you can have it pull a batch or sample in the way it's already done.” “It's also surprising how many companies want…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
April 26, 2023
…using open software such as the Robot Operating System (ROS). The intent is to make it easier to incorporate these systems into plantwide automation infrastructures. “By developing increasingly open robotic solutions fully compatible with popular software management systems, PLCs [programmable logic controllers], and related devices, companies such as Comau are opening the door to easy automation,” said Mark Anderson, head of robotics and automation products North America at Comau. “As a result, small to midsize manufacturers can now integrate robots quickly, easily, and economically, both within existing work lines and in new [Industry] 4.0-enabled production systems.” Ease of use becomes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
October 15, 2021
…Jason Walker, CEO of Waypoint Robotics. “InOrbit even has ROS code with the standard baked in. We wanted to bring to robotics development what agile [methodology] does—rapid iterations versus waiting a year for perfection in the waterfall approach.” InOrbit recently joined MassRobotics' standard effort. Its CEO, Florian Pestoni, is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG), an industry community dedicated to advancing robot operations, or RobOps, best practices. ROG had its latest meeting at the A3 AMR & Logistics Conference. AMR & Logistics Conference panel on interoperability, from left: Robert Huschka, A3; Aaron Prather, FedEx; Florian Pestoni, InOrbit; Daniel…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
April 04, 2022
…warehouse management system (WMS), a warehouse control system (WCS), a warehouse execution system (WES), a robotics operating system like ROS, or an emerging layer of software like what SVT Robotics has brought to the market? Will it be from the likes of Apple, Google, or Microsoft? I’m betting on the new layer of software, and I think it’s essential to moving robotics forward in our space. Those are some of the questions I want to see explored at this year’s NextGen Supply Chain Conference in Chicago.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
May 30, 2023
…on the fly to any system or workflow. Unlike ROS, which is primarily targeted to the current community of roboticists, Viam is luring the engineers that birthed ChatGPT to revolutionize uncrewed systems with new mechanical tasks addressing everyday needs. Imagine generative AI prompts for SLAM, gripping, computer vision, and other highly manipulative tasks with drag-and-drop ease. Ethics and AI as a moving target Interviewing Horowitz recalled my discussion a few months back with Dr. Hal Thorsrud of Agnes Scott College in Georgia. Prof. Thorsrud teaches a novel philosophy course at this liberal arts institution on the “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
October 05, 2021
…shows that the simulator can be controlled from both ROS and Python. The outputs of the simulator include the digital twin and synthetic data, which can be used to train perception models. Functional block diagram of NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Source: NVIDIA After the datasets are generated, formatting them properly to work with the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit enables you to greatly reduce the amount of time and expense of training the models while ensuring that the models are accurate and performant. The toolkit supports segmentation, classification, and object detection models. The datasets that are synthetically generated in NVIDIA Isaac…
