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 10.59
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 9.76
March 16, 2022
…on leading robotics and AI technology.” Members of a DARPA challenge-winning team from Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT founded RightHand Robotics in 2015. The Somerville, Mass.-based company applies computer vision and machine learning for its RightPick piece-picking system. RightHand raised $66 million in Series C funding last month. Partnership program intended to ease robotics adoption RightHand Robotics said its Partner Integrator program will make it easier for end customers to adopt robotic picking by working with their preferred automation suppliers. “The Partner Integrator program aligns business goals of system integrators, OEM technology providers, certified robot integrator…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.73
February 23, 2022
…2015 after winning a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) manipulation challenge. They focused on solving the “holy grail” of warehouse automation—piece picking for supply chain and e-commerce fulfillment, said the Somerville, Mass.-based company. RightPick deals with complex picking RightHand Robotics launched its autonomous piece-picking product in 2017. The modular, data-driven RightPick platform uses artificial intelligence, edge computing, machine vision, grippers, and collaborative robot arms. Its workflows can quickly adapt to new SKUs for streamlined and scalable order fulfillment in industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, and pharmaceuticals, said the company. The company also offers fleet management software for human…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.78
January 11, 2022
…by former members of MIT's team in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Optimus Ride has been developing electric, autonomous vehicles to serve residential communities, corporate and academic campuses, and mixed-use developments. The company received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in July 2021 to deploy its shuttle fleet at Clemson University. Magna claimed that it is one of the world's largest automotive suppliers. The mobility technology provider has more than 60 years of experience in vehicle design, engineering, and manufacturing. The company has 154,000 employees; 347 manufacturing operations; and 90 product development, engineering, and sales centers in 28…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.80
January 05, 2022
…venture-backed, while East Coast companies have academic, industrial, or DARPA grants,” replied Linnell. “There's a different mentality and more of a hardware focus on the East Coast.” “On the West Coast, the focus with RaaS is on getting robots out into the field and doing production work, and in Boston, companies are focused on getting the hardware engineering right, but they're not yet aware of what Formant can bring as they scale,” he added. “It's still a technical sale as we educate and support customers on the platform.” Collaborating for data, hardware “In 2021, the world figured out that fleet…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.68
December 06, 2021
…inspires new and improved algorithms in co-design. The work was supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Bhatia wrote the paper alongside MIT undergraduate Holly Jackson, MIT CSAIL Ph.D. student Yunsheng Tian, and Jie Xu, as well as MIT professor Wojciech Matusik. They will present the research at the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.54
November 05, 2021
…CSAIL Ph.D. student Jie Xu and Agrawal. The research is funded by Toyota Research Institute, Amazon Research Award, and DARPA Machine Common Sense Program. It will be presented at the 2021 Conference on Robot Learning.
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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.72
October 23, 2021
…all 84 counties in Indiana. If you look at all the autonomous driving companies that came out of the DARPA Grand Challenge, this is the next generation of innovators.” “The IAC is an amazing laboratory, and it's shocking the progress they'll make,” Speed said. “Imagine, if we could safely double the speed of an autonomous mobile robot, we could get one-third more throughput out of any given fleet.” A livestream of the Indy Autonomous Challenge will be viewable today at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Editor's note: See our coverage of the MIT-PITT-RW team and the winner of the challenge.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.03
September 27, 2021
…a three-year journey and several rounds of trials, the DARPA Subterranean Challenge announced the winners of its final event at the Mega Cavern in Louisville, Ky., last week. Team CERBERUS won $2 million in the Systems Competition, and Team Dynamo won $750,000 in the Virtual Competition. Each of the final rounds included four teams. The DARPA SubT Challenge was intended to advance robotics and software for exploring GPS-denied environments. “In time-sensitive missions, such as active combat operations or disaster response, warfighters and first responders face difficult terrain, unstable structures, degraded environmental conditions, severe communication constraints, and expansive areas of operation,”…
