Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.44
October 11, 2022
…humanoid robots and prosthetics. BeBop said millions of its fabric sensors are already in daily use in research, corporate, and military facilities worldwide. “We started shipping RoboSkin to evaluation customers two years ago,” recalled Keith McMillen, founder and chief technology officer of BeBop Sensors. “We got good feedback and decided to give it better spatial resolution than human skin and significantly better force recognition.” How to identify superhuman sensing What is “better-than-human spatial resolution,” and how can that help robots? “Physiologists have experimented and touched a person with two dull points and then moved them apart,” McMillen told Robotics 24/7.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.75
July 19, 2022
…with inhibited mobility, said the partners. The lightweight, breathable fabric feels like an athletic legging and is available in multiple colors and sizes, said Cionic. Paired with an intuitive app, the sleeve enables users to be in control of their own mobility journeys, it claimed. “It was imperative to us that the product not only has a significant improvement for users physically, but also to remove some of the emotional burdens that come with having a mobility difference,” said Behar, founder and CEO of fuseproject. “This meant building a product in tandem with potential users so we understood their needs…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.21
July 15, 2022
…will happen to Chowbotics' staff or intellectual property. Get Fabric Inc.—New York-based Fabric raised $200 million in Series C funding in October 2021 and opened a micro-fulfillment center in Dallas in April. This week, the company laid off 40% of its 300-person staff and named a new CEO as part of a reorganization to being more of a platform provider than a service provider. “Most of our customers told us they prefer to operate our system on their premises and with their own teams,” CEO Avi Jacoby told TechCrunch. Nuro Inc.—The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which we named a “delivery…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 38.92
May 13, 2022
…make robots “feel” better, said BeBop Sensors. RoboSkin’s advanced fabric-based sensor skin can be shaped to any surface, allowing quick tailoring to fit any robot, claimed the Berkeley, Calif.-based company. BeBob said its spatial resolution and sensitivity exceeds human abilities for collaborative applications. “I have been working with roboticists refining our RoboSkin for 10 years,” said Keith McMillen, founder and chief technology officer of BeBop Sensors. “We are pleased we can make this important contribution to the worldwide effort to bring humanoid robots into our lives to help people live longer, healthier, and more enjoyable lives.” McMillen started and sold…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.40
April 28, 2022
Get Fabric Inc. today announced the launch of its new Dallas micro-fulfillment center, expanding its growing North American network for on-demand retail. Through its network of automated micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs) and inventory intelligence, the New York-based company said it enables retailers to scale their capacity while profitably and sustainably providing on-demand deliveries. Fabric expects network to cover nearly 90% of U.S. consumers The Dallas location is the latest in Fabric’s growing network of MFCs in the U.S. The company said it expects that number to double by the end of the year, covering delivery to nearly 90% of consumers across…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.72
April 18, 2022
…is building out a network of automated MFCs with Fabric to house inventory on behalf of grocers so its own investments may off-set the potentially reduced number of facilities installed by grocers.” If I understand the model correctly, Instacart’s MFCs would essentially be small 3PLs located near customers to provide fast, home delivery for a variety of customers. Some inventory could be evergreen and used for all customers – Cheerios, after all, is Cheerios regardless of what grocer or convenience store you buy it from – and private-label or chain-specific inventory could be managed like inventory in any other 3PL.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.74
April 01, 2022
…participate in another led by partner institute Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Inc. “The ARM Institute’s leadership and involvement on these projects demonstrates the importance of the Manufacturing USA Network and Manufacturing Innovation Institutes to our nation’s resiliency,” stated Arnie Kravitz, chief innovation officer at the ARM Institute. “We were able to rapidly collaborate with our fellow Institutes and member organizations to propose high-impact projects that will enable a stronger national manufacturing infrastructure to navigate the current COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate future pandemics and similar crises,” he said. Founded in 2017, the ARM Institute is a public-private consortium with more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.10
February 27, 2022
…as those found in aerospace applications. A U.K. automotive fabric manufacturer uses such vision systems from Shelton Vision for real-time fabric inspection. Manual inspection is impossible because of the speed of fabric throughput and the different lighting required for identifying specific defects. Automated vision systems use all lighting conditions to identify every possible defect to a range of subtlety impossible by manual means. Defects are graded, classified, and mapped at speeds 10 times that of human ability, increasing productivity and decreasing non-conforming product shipments. 3. Flexible routing copes with capacity challenges Routing flexibility is the ability for multiple robots to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.94
January 28, 2022
…team plans to develop automated trajectory planning for forming fabric-based prepregs to contours, automated in-process inspection for un-compacted areas and automated generation of rework tool paths, and self-corrective robotic recovery for prepreg backing film-removal failures. Safe Robotic Handling of Energetic Materials Lead: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Partners: Schlumberger, Interface Technologies, FANUC Description: The project team aims to develop fundamental technologies for robotic handling of energetic materials. Manufacturing with energetic materials imposes numerous constraints on the manufacturing process. Among these are limitations on the mass of energetic material that can be present at any given time within a given space. In this…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
November 19, 2021
…transform industries, from agriculture and logistics to life sciences, transportation, and more. Its investments include AlphaSense, Blue River Technology, Fabric, Formlabs, Uber, and Vicarious Surgical. Machina Labs is looking to expand its team in Los Angeles. Its employees have worked at organizations including SpaceX, Microsoft, Google, Northrop Grumman, and Stratasys. For a current list of job openings at Machina Labs, visit www.machinalabs.ai/careers.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.85
October 26, 2021
Get Fabric Inc. today announced that it has closed a $200 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to more than $1 billion. The New York-based company runs micro-fulfillment operations for grocery and general merchandise retailers in New York, Washington D.C., and Tel Aviv. “It has never been so complex and challenging for retailers to fulfill and deliver online orders,” stated Fabric. “With these funds, Fabric has emerged as a new kind of unicorn — a 'robocorn' uniquely positioned to solve these challenges in the retail space.” Founded in 2015, the company said that its proprietary micro-fulfillment technology stack…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.04
August 17, 2021
…memory and power consumption. 5G makes a ubiquitous connectivity fabric for smart networks, and Qualcomm RB5 5G provides the systems performance, network security, and throughput. We have strong relationships with all the major carriers because of our mobile business.” Qualcomm added that its RB5 5G has a 10-km [6.2-mi.] range. Could the platform be used in other types of vehicles? “Absolutely. It uses the same RB5 processor as for general-purpose robots, which was out in October 2020,” replied Singh. “We'll see AGVs [automated guided vehicles], AMRs [autonomous mobile robots], service robots, and collaborative robots coming.” Dev Singh, Qualcomm “We're one…
