Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.08
August 12, 2020
…immense value to insurance carriers, repair service vendors, and smart city developers, setting up a fertile ground for data commerce. “Doing in in compliance with privacy regulations is the key,” Lucero said. But even that may not necessarily put the skittish consumers at ease. Inevitably, there'll be a tug-of-war between the consumers who want to stay below the radar (so to speak) and the data merchants hungry for more. If data is the goldmine, then data privacy is the Wild West with murky laws. Digital Twins Meet Physical Source Seshagiri Marellapudi, head of MindSphere IIoT Cloud Platform, Siemens, also pays…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.20
June 26, 2020
…floor, the system can notify an associate on any smart device if they have moved out of a safe zone. Similarly, 6 River Systems reports that its system can be adapted to use static zoning rules to ensure associates remain in a zone that conforms with a facility’s social distance rules and limit the number of associates anyone robot works with during a shift. As of this writing, the company’s engineers are making software changes to ensure that when robots “are engaged with associates, they follow social distancing protocols when coworkers do meet in picking aisles.” Contact tracing Cleaning, disinfecting,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.38
June 25, 2020
…infections after growing numbers in China, particularly in the city of Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. Robots were used in Wuhan during the outbreak. Olivia Chi is a spokesperson for UBTECH Robotics based in Shenzhen, China. UBTECH robots used artificial intelligence to assist in the COVID-19 crisis in and out of hospitals. In fact, one of UBTECH’s robots, the AIMBOT robot, was used at Wuhan Central Hospital to perform tasks so human beings didn’t have to, reducing their risk of infection. “This self-moving AIMBOT robot has been working alongside medical staff since March at Wuhan Central Hospital,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.42
March 12, 2020
…and Justin Ha at Dematic’s annual conference in Park City, things were changing. DHL was working with Locus to develop software to optimize the deployment of robots around a group of orders, much like the work execution systems we highlighted in the February Special Report in Modern. Just like the tug of war between automation and WMS companies over where order fulfillment intelligence should reside in the WES space, “I think you’re going to see a tug of war with the WMS and AMR vendors over where that intelligence should live,” predicts Peter Blair, the vice president of marketing for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.79
March 03, 2020
…now has Amazon advertising two-hour food deliveries in select cities. In this environment, more shippers face pressure to deliver goods at a faster pace, all while keeping costs under control. To cope, many organizations are pinning their hopes on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). But when will these “emerging” technologies form practical applications that solve logistics pain points? To find out how these emerging technologies are evolving into logistics relevance, we talked to top consultants and analysts. We found that AI is already being applied to processes such…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 43.01
February 13, 2020
The premier HxGN LIVE event of 2020, HxGN LIVE Smart Manufacturing | Detroit, will take place May 19-20, 2020. Part of the HxGN LIVE series, Hexagon’s annual digital solutions conference, this event will feature smart factory solutions for anyone in manufacturing. This two-day event welcomes hundreds of business leaders from around the nation to the Motor City, joining together to experience digital solutions that improve productivity and quality across design, production and metrology, according to show organizers. Engage first-hand with pioneering technologies, gain perspective from the industry’s top thinkers in educational keynotes and sessions, enhance skills with interactive training, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.04
November 11, 2019
…for this program, at a distribution center in Oklahoma City, Okla., that ships parts to various Air Force maintenance facilities. The DC went live with eight mobile robots, replacing a process in which associates picked parts to a cart using a pick list generated by Lockheed Martin’s customized warehouse management system (WMS). While not a large-scale AMR deployment, since going live in early 2019, the solution has generated strong return on investment (ROI) metrics and attracted interest within Lockheed Martin for broader AMR use. Perhaps most impressive, the AMR deployment is credited with up to a 381% increase in lines…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.89
July 01, 2019
…are being generated from sensors in distributed settings like smart cities, industrial plants and autonomous vehicles. For fast real-time response, developers increasingly turn to edge computing. This raises the bar for computing resources in edge nodes. As a result, hardware must be complemented with real-time operating systems and fast-response software to handle interrupts and events swiftly. ML for continuously changing real-time sensor data will also require learning on the fly because real-time systems cannot deploy and forget. For this adaptability, new hardware and software features that can be updated or reconfigured may be required for machine learning inference. With vast…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.87
May 23, 2019
…intelligence algorithms that power the autonomy. There are the smart cities in which the cars will interact as part of their excursions as well as a sophisticated ecosystem of suppliers all collaborating on various aspects of a solution. For everything to come together in a timely and cost-effective fashion, there’s no question, simulation must be a foundational building block for development. While various players leverage different simulation tools for specific aspects of self-driving car designs, Siemens PLM Software has just released PAVE360, a validation environment for automotive chips that creates a digital twin to simulate the entire complex ecosystem, not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.20
May 17, 2019
…sensor data, traffic flows and even the simulation of smart cities through which self-driving cars will ultimately travel. “PAVE360 represents the first output of an innovation process born from the combination of Mentor and Siemens employees, ideas, and technologies two years ago,“ says Ravi Subramanian, vice president and general manager of the IC Verification Solutions Division of Mentor, a Siemens business. “PAVE360 from Siemens delivers a comprehensive program to support the deep, cross-ecosystem collaboration necessary for our customers to develop powerful custom silicon and software solutions to power the autonomous vehicles revolution.“ PAVE360 enables capabilities for full, closed-loop validation of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.67
May 01, 2019
…testing and deploying small buses in geofenced regions in smart cities,” says Dutton. “Today, there’s generally a human operator on the bus keeping an eye on things. But these vehicles are already operating in the fully autonomous mode.” For example, with its headquarters in Lyon, France, and R&D facilities in Paris, NAVYA offers autonomous shuttle (Autonom Shuttle) and autonomous cabs (Autonom Cab). Some of its vehicles are in service in Singapore, Perth, Australia); Christchurch Airport in New Zealand; and Curtin University in Australia. Such conditional autonomy with the condition being the restricted zone will fall under Level 4 as defined…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.89
March 25, 2019
…private logistic fleets. As 5G networks become more prevalent, cities will gain invaluable access to real-time, end-to-end visibility into their transportation systems. 5G could allow enhanced vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V), a key component to improving road safety in the emerging world of driverless vehicles. It is essential that V2V communications take place in real time, as a matter of milliseconds could be the difference between a close call and a fatal collision. Achieving this high speed of interconnectivity requires vehicles to transmit large amounts of data between each other without any lags. 5G networks could make this possible with their low…
