Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.64
July 22, 2021
…and can increase accuracy, efficiency, and ensure safety across a range of industries and applications. Its customers include BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Chattanooga Department of Transportation, and Emart. Seoul Robotics has offices in Seoul, South Korea, as well as Silicon Valley, Munich, and Detroit and is backed by leading global financial institutions. It raised $12 million in a bridge round of investment from the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund earlier this month.
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 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 22.50
July 10, 2020
…engineers have fully restored a Corvette C1 and a Mercedes 190SL; they have also transformed a Porsche 911 into a 911 RS, and a Ford Mustang 1966 into a GT350H. To solve some of the toughest challenges posed by the clients, the ABcar Oldtimers employs a very modern technique—3D printing, powered by printers from Zortrax. For example, “the thin needles in the display of tachometers and speedometers mounted in the vehicles provided by Mercedes Benz were beautifully crafted with a crescent moon at their tips. These are no longer produced. It is possible to order similar ones cut with a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.66
June 23, 2020
…Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, for a joint press conference, streamed live. The two companies plan to “create a revolutionary in-vehicle computing system and AI computing infrastructure. Starting in 2024, this will be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles, enabling them with upgradable automated driving functions to deliver software-defined vehicles, expected to hit the market in 2024,” according to the press release. “NVIDIA is all about solving problems ordinary computers can't solve,” said Huang. “And autonomous vehicles is one of the world's greatest challenges. It has enormous impact on the world.”…
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…
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 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 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 15.10
March 15, 2017
…1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles, and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG has partnered with Uber Technologies Inc. Google, which separated its self-driving car project into a new unit called Waymo last year, plans to start a ride-sharing service using semi-autonomous minivans made by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV as soon as the end of 2017. Volkswagen AG is rolling out Moia, a new division that will focus on ride-sharing and other mobility services. Mercedes already offers cars that can pilot themselves at highway speeds. Digital mobility services for automobiles will reach $2.03 trillion (1.9 trillion euros) in 2025, up…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.43
March 19, 2016
…some autonomous features. Many German automakers, including Volkswagen’s Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, are working on their own autonomous vehicles. Earlier, Germany’s Manager Magazin reported that Uber had placed an order for 100,000 Mercedes S-Class series with Daimler, citing unnamed sources at both companies, but another source told Reuters that report was inaccurate. Manager speculated the order could cost Uber around 10 billion euros, or $11.3 billion. Uber declined comment on both stories. It’s no secret that Uber is pursuing its own self-driving technology, using engineers it poached from Google and Carnegie Mellon University. The company recently announced plans to expand…
