Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.17
March 18, 2021
…are used by millions of drivers and organizations such as Audi, Apple, BMW, Ford, Garmin, GM, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Sygic, TomTom, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Parkopedia is available in 15,000 cities across 89 countries globally, covering over 70 million parking spaces. Parkopedia said it helps drivers find the closest, cheapest, or available parking to their destination; pay in selected locations; and navigate directly to the parking space.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.42
September 14, 2023
…Bash said. “It doesn't make sense to send a Mercedes to deliver a $5 burrito or a whole truck for one pizza.” With Autonomous Pickup, Flytrex drones can pick up orders from shops via a dropdown wire. They can then fly directly to customers’ homes to deliver the goods, removing the human component from the delivery process. “Drones are only 20% of what we do,” noted Bash. “There's also the servers, cloud infrastructure, and operations teams, and everything has to work together.” Several of Flytrex’s restaurant and retailer affiliates have already realized its vision of a fully autonomous delivery process,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.20
August 21, 2018
…bed of manufacturing activity, home to established plants from Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai and a new Mazda Toyota plant that will need 4,000 employees when it is operating at full speed. In the northeastern part of the state, there’s distribution, with large Walmart, Target and Children’s Place distribution centers. All of these facilities will need trained maintenance technicians. “The No. 1 issue before people locate here is: Where are my employees going to come from,” says Kracke. It’s not just a concern for today. “Our auto manufacturers view this as a 50-year lifecycle and they want to know they’re going…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.52
June 04, 2024
…aware of are in automotive. You've got BMW and Mercedes and of course Tesla doing whatever it is they're doing. You have three automotive companies basically testing these out and then Magna being involved with one of the companies. That's interesting, because as someone who saw the development of the industrial robot industry, automotive was what really jump started everything. Robot spending market highlights A3 released a market insight report about how North American robot orders dropped for the second quarter of 2023, but you were touting positive spending moving into 2024. Now being at the midway point of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.08
June 14, 2022
…charging. EV Safe Charge clients include Audi, Hertz, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Stellantis, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. A BRITE Energy Innovators portfolio company, EV Safe Charge said its technologies meet the needs of automakers, real estate developers, car dealerships, hotels, municipalities, and other entities. ZiGGY robot charger at its base in a parking garage. Source: EV Safe Charge Users, investors anticipate mobile EV charging ZiGGY is currently scheduled to enter production in 2023. EV Safe Charge is taking reservations for ZiGGY today. “We delight in finding opportunities to introduce our guests and neighbors to next-level…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.15
October 07, 2020
…company: “The video shows a digital twin of a Mercedes-Benz EQS driving a 17-mile route around a recreated version of the NVIDIA campus in Santa Clara, Calif. It includes Highways 101 and 87 and Interstate 280, with traffic lights, on-ramps, off-ramps and merges as well as changes to the time of day, weather and traffic. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. “To achieve the real-world replica of the testing loop, the real environment was scanned at 5-cm accuracy and recreated in simulation. The hardware, software, sensors, car displays and human-machine interaction were all implemented in simulation in the exact same way as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.30
January 03, 2023
…well as RTX 40 Series laptops. It noted that Mercedes Benz is using Omniverse digital twins to plan and build more efficient factories as the automotive industry transitions to electric and autonomous vehicles. Speaking of autonomous vehicles, NVIDIA announced a partnership with Foxconn to build DRIVE Orin computers and integrate the Hyperion sensor architecture into electric vehicle fleets. The company is also relying on its relationship with video game developers for in-vehicle experiences. NVIDIA said its simulation tools will help developers of both autonomous vehicles and robotics. “Isaac Sim provides the ability to simulate tens or even thousands of robots,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.76
August 08, 2023
…Luxury electric vehicle maker DENZA, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and BYD, has worked with communications firm WPP and NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud to build the next generation of car configurators. WPP can use generative AI or scans of real-world environments captured by a Boston Dynamics Spot robot to create custom environments. New Omniverse systems and partners NVIDIA is collaborating with global systems manufacturers to bring RTX workstations optimally configured for Omniverse to millions of designers, architects and engineers. The new systems feature up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs. They are bundled with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.55
March 14, 2019
…ocean freight containers moved in 2018 More than 20,000 Mercedes-Benz sprinter vans (leased over time) 141,000,000 square feet of supply chain facilities 10,000 branded trailers 120 U.S. fulfillment centers 52 Prime Now hubs With this massive distribution network growth, Amazon went from handling none of it’s shipping in 2013 to handle 26% of it. In that same time, UPS’s share of Amazon’s shipping decreased by almost half (49% to 22%), and FedEx went from 9% to just 3% of Amazon’s orders. Read: Wall Street commentary on Amazon creating problems for UPS and FedEx may be overblown It’s fair to say…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.51
November 22, 2018
…out of transportation. Daimler AG and its business units Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Trucks has its “Future Truck 2025” already on the highways and has partnered with Uber Technologies Inc. Apple, Microsoft, Ford, and many others are also involved in the development of autonomous vehicles. There is another combine, Waymo/Google/Alphabet, working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.28
May 01, 2019
…NVIDIA DRIVE, with production starting as early as 2020. Mercedes-Benz also announced that its next-generation centralized computing architecture for AI in the cockpit and AI for self-driving will use NVIDIA DRIVE technology. The A8 Highway in Germany as seen in rFpro simulation software, running a test in a scenario with cones blocking off traffic. Image courtesy of rFpro. At GTC, NVIDIA unveiled its safety driving policy called the Safety Force Field (SFF). which is integrated into the NVIDIA DRIVE technology stack. “SFF is a robust driving policy that analyzes and predicts the vehicle’s environment. It determines a set of acceptable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.14
December 02, 2019
…organization currently stores for automotive and technology customers. Similarly, Mercedes-Benz Trucks announced it will now allow customers to 3D print more than 30 different spare parts for cargo trucks in an effort to resolve backlogs in spare parts delivery. Digital twins to optimize the next-gen supply chain market Digital twin is another breakthrough technology that creates virtual models of product design, production, and IoT and allows companies to realize new design to have a proper supply china network. Digital twins provide greater insight into and visibility from a material surface to a critical infrastructure resulting in proactive decisions being made…
