Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.07
August 15, 2022
…Robotics.” RightHand Robotics was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT. The team said it was intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to solve real-world problems. The company is based in Somerville, Mass. RightHand said the Gartner report shares significant findings and recommendations for customers looking to buy autonomous systems. The firm observed a strong and growing interest in robots for use in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing environments. What is Intralogistics Smart Robotics? Gartner describes intralogistics smart robotics (ISRs) as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.53
March 02, 2023
…Cognition (IHMC), where he led a team in the DARPA Humanoid Robotics Challenge. Figure said its team completed its full-scale humanoid build in just six months, and it plans to begin testing in the coming months. According to the company, Figure 01 “combines the dexterity of the human form with cutting-edge AI to perform a wide range of tasks in various industries, such as manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail.” Figure 01 is 5 ft., 6 in. (167 cm) tall and will take advantage of ongoing advances in AI, according to Figure. Source: Figure AI Long-term goal is for humanoids to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.83
August 29, 2023
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…and director of operations while working on contacts for DARPA, NIST, and the National Science Foundation. He helped grow CyPhy Works into a leading tethered drone supplier in North America. Prior to CyPhy Works, Walker was the quality and testing manager for the Roomba vacuuming robot at iRobot. He received a BSEE with a concentration in robotics and control systems from Kansas State University. Ruddick Lawrence Co-founder and chief technology officer Rapid Robotics Ruddick has spent his entire career working in robotics, hardware, and manufacturing. Most recently he was vice president of engineering at Carbon Robotics, where he led the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.62
February 09, 2023
…the world, including the NASA Valkyrie Robot for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Other projects include Astra, an upper-body humanoid robot that has “state-of-the-art actuation packed into a small form, enabling it to be placed on any mobility platform,” said Apptronik. It has also developed Apollo, a NASA-backed versatile humanoid designed to scale and apply to numerous applications. Apptronik said its agreement with Terex is its latest achievement after a busy 2022. The brand raised nearly $15 million in its seed round and said it expects to make a humanoid robot available for commercial orders later this year. It said it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.46
June 28, 2021
…real world, Murphy told IEEE Spectrum. “Things like the DARPA Robotics Challenge or the DARPA Subterranean Challenge are great, but they're not asking the right questions for search and rescue,” she asserted. “A parking garage or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the structure is mostly intact but you don't want people, is not the same as a mine or building collapse.” “When we've worked with bomb squads, the spaces were cluttered, and dirty clothes got stuck in the treads,” said Murphy. “Texas A&M has resources for technology transfer for emergency management. It's not the same as military robots but…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.90
May 18, 2021
…past funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the McDermott family, who are the co-founders of Texas Instruments. The company said its printable materials are optimized for high-throughput manufacturing of functional, complex 3D plastic and rubber parts. Adaptive3D's flagship resin is Elastic ToughRubber 90, a durable, printable photopolymer elastomer. The company said it serves high-throughput manufacturing, while maintaining low cost of production and superior material performance. Adaptive3D has received strategic capital from leading materials companies including Covestro, Arkema Group, West Pharmaceuticals, Applied Ventures, and Royal DSM. It noted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.80
May 17, 2022
…industry leaders.” RightPick 3 designed to be integrator-friendly A DARPA challenge-winning from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT founded RightHand Robotics in 2015 to apply computer vision and machine learning to real-world grasping problems. The company said its data-driven, intelligent picking platform provides flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. RightHand said RightPick 3, its latest robotic piece-picking system, “enables retailers to rise up to the new realities of online commerce.” RightPick 3 has a modular, industrialized hardware design and well-defined software application programming interfaces (APIs), said the company. It is designed to be integrator-friendly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.70
January 28, 2023
…of these weather conditions. It’s no surprise then that DARPA has expressed interest “for the possibility of building structures for coastal protection against erosion and sea level rise.” Defending against increasingly common severe weather threats will require future-proofing infrastructure along coasts. Self-building modular robotics could automate the process of building coastal protection structures, making this massive infrastructure project far more manageable. The autonomous scaling capability of MIT’s modular robotics system would allow it to adapt to different building projects effortlessly as the need arises. Self-building modular robotics — a vital solution Self-building modular robotics is an exciting innovation for many…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.59
March 30, 2022
…technology. RightHand takes its show on the road A DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT founded RightHand Robotics in 2015. Their stated goal was to apply grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to real-world problems. The Somerville, Mass.-based company said its data-driven picking platform provides flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. It raised $66 million in Series E funding last month. RightHand said it will be at the following events: MODEX 2022: The RightHand Robotics team is at Booth B8622, and the Vanderlande team is at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.47
May 24, 2021
…with the University of Pennsylvania's Team PLUTO for the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) challenge. What do you anticipate for its final challenge in September? Williams: The DARPA Sub-T Challenge has been going for two and a half years. During that time, the industry has matured rapidly, so you're finding areas where people are pulling ahead of the challenge. [Program Manager] Tim Chung is clever at putting in traps and tricks beyond just building a textbook environment. That's where this challenge is still fascinating—there's a difference between an ideal environment and “What will they throw at us?” I'm most looking forward to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.41
June 11, 2021
…fashion with our autonomy since 2005, including the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge,” stated Paul Perrone, founder and CEO of Perrone Robotics. “It's great to see our pioneering research take hold as a reliable commercial solution that's deployable now.” Perrone Autonomy scales across vehicles, applications Perrone Robotics said its Autonomy system is built around the MAX patented full-stack platform, the TONY retrofit kit, and the Safety Watchdog safety-certifiable framework. The company said it has developed TONY, short for “TO Navigate You,” is a vehicle-independent kit “to provide a complete 'artificial driver' solution.” The result is an AV retrofit kit that can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.11
October 28, 2021
…this technology compare with that used in the recent DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge? “The technologies are comparable—they're using SLAM, fusing data from laser scanners and cameras,” Foessel told Robotics 24/7. “On the one hand, the SubT prototypes included different sensing configurations. For example, they had more cameras and orthogonal rotating scanners.” “We have one rotating laser scanner and one camera,” he explained. “Ours is meant to be operational in a broader set of environments. It's a more stable configuration used day in and day out for a number of inspection applications.” Point cloud data collected during a flight in the…
