Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
March 12, 2020
…Blair, vice president of marketing for Berkshire Grey. The ROS can contribute to the overall flow. For instance, if the robot was unable to pick an item, the WES can route a tote to another station staffed by an associate to complete the pick, or, if the required item was missing from the tote, someone in replenishment can address the issue. “That way, instead of the tote just sitting there, you’ve automated the resolution process so the robot can keep working,” says Vince Martinelli, RightHand’s head of product marketing. Similarly, the robot can pick items in a sequence that will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
June 25, 2023
…have built a Python package on top of a ROS package to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap. The APIs used for training in simulation or in the real world are similar. We make them as close as possible, and it's absolutely possible to train in both reality and simulation. The physics realism is fully tractable. We have annotated the objects' masses, and Unity has a built-in physics engine to simulate interactions. If agent’s arm hits an object, it wil have an effect on it. It’s very important for an agent to learn the consequences to its actions to be safe. How…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
January 07, 2022
…be successful. While the teams use common hardware and ROS-based software, what are some of the technical challenges this time? Mitchell: Can we demonstrate multicar high-speed automation? Another challenge we're facing is wear and tear from stress of practicing. Every car has wrecked at least once. The cars themselves become bit of a liability. The hardware gone through a lot, including transport from Indianapolis to Las Vegas. We're starting to see some stress-test carnage. It's tough, because the teams want to compete on their unique algorithms. But as with any racing series—like Formula 1, where there's a series winner for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
May 26, 2023
…management systems (WMS) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) remain. Speaking of making robots easier to use, Open Robotics released ROS 2 Iron Irwini, marking the continuing evolution of the open-source Robot Operating System from an academic tool to a framework for commercial robotics development. Intrinsic, which Alphabet acquired from Open Robotics, announced the beta version of its Flowstate product for developers. “We've seen a lot of demand in AMRs, but it's still an immature integration environment,” noted John Bubnikovich, U.S. country leader at ABB Robotics.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
October 21, 2022
…standards,” said Pestoni. “InOrbit supports MassRobotics, VDA, and open-source ROS 2. We went from ‘Why should we work together?’ to now ‘How should we work together?’” V2.0 of interoperability standard in the works As the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) begins to adopt Version 1.0, MassRobotics and its partners are working on Version 2.0, which came out of an Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute project led by Siemens and FedEx, Theobald noted. Version 2.0 establishes a mission communication application programming interface (API). It is intended to prevent too many robots from trying to use a single optimized route at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.19
July 23, 2021
…from leading universities to program an 80% solution using ROS [the open-source Robot Operating System], but they need things that can be deployed in the real world today. Workers change jobs every six months, high school and store environments are cluttered, and they change every day. This is not some sleek science fiction world; it's messy. Our “secret sauce” at Brain Corp is that rather than build robots, we have pioneered the intellectual property in this space with an unbelievably simple user interface [UI]. There a button—press “Teach,” and drive the robot where it needs to go, and press “Save.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.16
May 29, 2022
…real or simulated, it just needs to be running ROS. All configurations live in a modular add-on system, allowing you to easily extend the system with your own tasks, robots, environments, evaluation methods, examples, and more. All our code is open-source under an MIT license. For more information, see the PDF download “BenchBot: Evaluating Robotics Research in Photorealistic 3D Simulation and on Real Robots.” A lot of moving parts isn’t necessarily a good thing if they complicate the user experience, so designing the user experience was also a central focus in developing BenchBot. There are three basic commands for controlling…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.14
December 22, 2021
…Bieller: There are so many approaches to tackle interoperability—the ROS [Robot Operating System] community is active on the subject, Mass Robotics developed a standard, VDMA and VDA published a specification, OPC is working on the topic, amongst others. It will be hard to achieve critical mass and make a sustainable impact. We need large scale implementation and adoption—and this most likely will require collaboration between different parties and a certain consolidation. IFR is happy to engage and facilitate dialogue. Ryden: One of the things we at MassRobotics are looking at is charging interoperability. Right now, all mobile robots have their…
