Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.87
March 04, 2022
…agency for the state. It has provided funding to MassRobotics and other organizations. Created in 2003, the Innovation Institute conducts research into unmet needs and opportunities, serves as a strategic broker, manages high-value projects, and makes strategic investments into innovation. “Our Innovation Institute team launched information sessions on the R&D grant program, designed to uncover new research collaborations that can advance our tech and innovation ecosystem,” said Carolyn Kirk, executive director of the MassTech Collaborative. “The proposals that receive grants are reviewed by an independent advisory group, which identify the key qualities that we look for in investments: ability to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.85
April 07, 2021
…a much bigger issue, and the ARM Institute and MassRobotics are starting to think about it.” “It's not just the physical interface of contact chargers, but also some devices use 24- or 48-volt batteries, and others need charge fast or slow,” he said. “We need to deliver the right intelligence for a particular robot in the system to be able to scale up or down.” “Imagine a setup with just two different robots with a charging station each,” added Waters. “If a worker moves it for a box in a warehouse, for most systems, they then have to go into…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.85
April 25, 2022
…Wave Automation, A3, and Open Robotics, is part of MassRobotics' AMR Interoperability Working Group. “Going two or three years back, an installation of two or three AMRs was really the standard,” Nicolay said. “You saw a lot of customers started with small fleets just to test the technology. “But these days, you have installations of multiple robots—20, 30, and beyond— and not only from one vendor, but from multiple vendors for different applications, different use cases,” he added. “There really is a demand for a single internal logistics system.” The company has an ROI Calculator on its website to help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.36
June 27, 2023
…software working with a range of standards, including the MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard and VDA 5050. Pestoni noted that InOrbit supports these standards efforts because they are addressing one of the key issues that customers face when they have multiple robotic systems – fragmentation. Warehouses can't expand automation without orchestration While demand for robotics is growing rapidly in the warehouse space, both robot makers and warehouse customers have had challenges scaling up. One report estimated that more than 80% of warehouses globally do not have any automation. Lijun Zhu, CEO of CoEvolution, said a major reason why warehouse operators don't…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.29
December 28, 2022
…to its Scout system. The Waltham, Mass.-based company and MassRobotics member this year acquired Airobotics and Ardenna. While it has received approvals for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights, American Robotics continues to work on making commercial drones more accessible. Reese Mozer, co-founder and CEO of American Robotics, replied to the following questions from Robotics 24/7 about 2022 achievements and 2023 prospects: Uncertainty heightens drone demand How have drone suppliers responded to challenges such as chip shortages, geopolitical uncertainty, and shifting market demand? Mozer: Supply chain disruptions have certainly made the job of our manufacturing department more challenging, but not impossible.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.08
August 25, 2023
…Pick-and-Place Operations Project team: Apparel Robotics Corp. (principal investigator), MassRobotics Topic areas addressed: Automated robotic task planning and AI in robotics for manufacturing Description: Clothing manufacturing is a very labor-intensive process, with 80% of the total labor cost attributed to material handling, and most labor manufacturing is completed offshore. For the garment manufacturing industry to progress meaningfully towards automation, several effective fabric-handling technologies must arise. This project will develop new flexible robotic material handling capabilities required to unload a cutting table or a conveyor that has a number of cut nested fabric pieces of varying sizes and geometries on it.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.86
May 14, 2021
…Chris Cacioppo, our chief technology officer, is working with MassRobotics and other local companies on a specification for robots to talk to one another.” “Our goal at ROG this year is to raise awareness about the issues and a realization that buying a robot is only the start of the journey,” said Pestoni, who is also co-founder of the Robot Operations Group (ROG). “To take full advantage of the technology, you need coordination of people and robots working together.” “Logistics companies just happen to use robots. This new wave of organizations—we're enablers,” said Inggs. “Robotics-as-a-service [RaaS] providers are trying to…
