Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.14
September 10, 2021
…StockBot retail robot; the REEM-C, TALOS, TIAGo, and ARI humanoid robots; the SOLO 12 quadruped robot; and the TIAGo Base intralogistics solution. The StockBot robot automates daily inventory tracking and provides data to inform decisions. The platform can provide accurate stock information to smartly manage stores, while seamlessly integrating with retailer’s systems, said PAL Robotics. The company added that the robot is easy to set up and use. StockBot takes inventory at Decathlon Singapore. Source: PAL Robotics Decathlon selects StockBot Founded in 1976, Decathlon is a multinational retailer with 1,714 stores in 61 countries. The Lille, France-based, family-owned company was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.32
August 30, 2021
…H1 teleoperation system for robotic manipulation and the G1 humanoid general-purpose robot. It raised $17.1 million in Series B funding in February and is a semi-finalist in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. Onboard demo planned GITAI said it will collaborate with Nanoracks LLC on a technoical demonstration of the S1 robot arm in the Bishop airlock in Node 3 of the ISS. Houston-based Nanoracks is providing the launch opportunity, on-orbit operations, and data downlink. NASA astronauts will install the arm inside the airlock. It will conduct intra-vehicular activity (IVA) such as swich and cable operations. The GITAI arm will also…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 73.99
August 22, 2021
…cessation of SoftBank's Pepper service robot line shows, most humanoids are not yet rugged, dexterous, or affordable enough to be commercially viable or useful for multiple tasks. Combining locomotion, a humanoid design, mobile manipulation, and a smooth user interface is a still a tall order. As with the concept of multipurpose household robots, the hardware of humanoids would need artificial general intelligence (AGI) to be able to generalize lessons and be flexible and capable. Today, researchers and developers expect to distribute the computing for AI between the cloud and edge devices. Humanoid robots gain agility, seek purpose Many androids are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.29
August 20, 2021
…U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that features miniature humanoid-shaped arms. They have shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints, providing human-level dexterity and 360-degree articulation, said the company. Hominis' compact and mobile design occupies a minimal footprint at a significant cost advantage in comparison with available robotic technology, it added. The first FDA-authorized indication of Hominis is in women's health, including benign hysterectomy via transvaginal approach, which is known to be less painful, has lower infection rates, has faster recovery and no visible scarring. Current robotic technology doesn't allow transvaginal access. Vaginal access is performed manually in 16% of all cases.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.89
July 27, 2021
…dynamics. After that was Cassie, followed by Agility’s Digit humanoid robot. With knees that bend like an ostrich’s, Cassie taught itself to run using a deep reinforcement learning algorithm. Running requires dynamic balancing – the ability to maintain balance while switching positions or otherwise being in motion – and Cassie has learned to make infinite subtle adjustments to stay upright while moving, said OSU. “Cassie is a very efficient robot because of how it has been designed and built, and we were really able to reach the limits of the hardware and show what it can do,” said Jeremy Dao,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.36
July 23, 2021
…years. Expectations are sky-high, but we've been talking about humanoid robots for decades. Nobody really dreamed about touchscreens. This has created a level of unsustainable hype, like what has hurt self-driving cars. It might have helped raise money, but expectations for robots are unrealistic. With AMRs, humans are needed to teach and train robots. If a programmer has to go to a site and write unique code because every site is different, this makes maturing robotics hard. Businesses could get Ph.D.s from leading universities to program an 80% solution using ROS [the open-source Robot Operating System], but they need things…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.59
July 20, 2021
…speakers overtook several social robots, most agricultural systems are still in the prototype phase, and today's videos of dancing humanoids only came after years of failures such as those in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Over the past year, many companies laid off staffers, but relatively few shut down. Here are some recent failures and possible lessons to be drawn from them.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.02
June 21, 2021
…1992 and has developed a number of legged and humanoid robots, including BigDog, Atlas, and Spot. The mobile robots were tested for military and civilian uses and became popular on YouTube. Google X, now part of Alphabet Inc., acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013. In 2017, SoftBank bought Boston Dynamics, which itself acquired vision provider Kinema Systems in 2019. SoftBank Robotics makes other humanoid and service robots. Hyundai announced its intention to pick up the company in December 2020. Boston Dynamics began selling the quadruped Spot robot in June 2020 for commercial applications such as inspection and security. The company said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.14
June 20, 2021
…America last week announced that SoftBank' Pepper and NAO humanoid robots are now available in North America exclusively through RobotLAB. The partnership also expands Pepper's educational and industrial focus areas to a broader range of applications, and it marks RobotLAB's debut as a integrator for SoftBank's Whiz cleaning robots. The companies said their collaboration builds on their long-standing partnership in advancing automation and bringing SoftBank Robotics America's (SBRA) business-to-business systems to market. San Francisco-based RobotLAB has already deployed and supported thousands of robots in the field, including Pepper and NAO. “We are pleased to expand our partnership with SBRA to…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 40.03
June 09, 2021
…Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, Australia. More than 35,000 SoftBank Robotics systems, including the Pepper and NAO humanoids and the Whiz cleaning robots, are in use in more than 70 countries. They serve applications in retail, tourism, healthcare, finance, education, facilities management, and cleaning.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.02
April 21, 2021
…more than 35,000 robots, including the Pepper and NAO humanoid service robots and the Whiz cleaning robot, which are used in more than 70 countries. SB Logistics provides pay-per-use, third-party logistics (3PL) services, starting with e-commerce business-to-consumer (B2C) fulfillment and expanding to offline merges online (business-to-business) and direct-to-consumer (D2C) fulfillment. Bedford, Mass.-based Berkshire Grey combines AI and robotics to support fulfillment, supply chain, and logistics operations. Its customers include Global 100 retailers and 3PLs. In February, the company announced its intention to merge with a special purpose acquisition company and to be publicly listed. SB Logistics to fully automate DC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.96
April 09, 2021
…Shanghai-based service robotics provider said it will continue developing humanoid models for home use. Bill Huang, founder and general manager of the China Mobile Research Institute, founded CloudMinds in 2015. The company has more than 1,800 patents and claimed that it is developing an “open end-to-end cloud robot system.” CloudMinds provides service robots that use cloud computing for retail, education, healthcare, and hospitality. Its offerings include the wheeled humanoid XR-1 Service Robot, the Cloud Patrol security robot, and Cloud Pepper, a humanoid made by SoftBank Robotics. It has offered them through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model. In addition, the company makes…
