Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.73
February 01, 2022
…a variety of complex indoor and outdoor environments. The Pittsburgh-based company said its robots can help companies in the aviation, construction, defense, energy, and medical industries to enable remote operations, improve worker safety and efficiency, and reduce operational costs. RE2 robot arm to get a lift from JLG platform “While JLG has been leveraging and developing robotics in specific areas of our business for quite some time, our focus has shifted to developing and incorporating solutions that integrate with our lifts to help offset labor shortages and provide assistive technologies to a now five-generation workforce,” said Frank Nerenhausen, president of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.96
January 28, 2022
…workforce development. President Joe Biden visited the institute in Pittsburgh today (remarks at 15:30 below). The ARM Institute, which has more than 330 members, has invested in over 90 technology and workforce projects to date. The institute said it plans to award nearly $4 million in funding for a total constribution of about $8 million across the following eight projects. AI Robot Programming Assistance Lead: University of Memphis Partners: READY Robotics, FedEx, DeepHow Description: There are technologies that can now dramatically reduce the knowledge necessary to program and install a robot, using no-code methods that make robotic programming accessible to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.45
January 26, 2022
…Fleet Central software suite, and meet with company experts. Pittsburgh-based Seegrid said it combines autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), enterprise software, and services for connected materials handling automation. The company said its Palion AMRs have autonomously driven millions of production miles driven with no personnel safety incidents. Seegrid said the world’s largest manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics companies rely on its technologies in highly complex environments. “Under intense pressure to move material more efficiently and safely with reduced labor, logistics, e-commerce, and manufacturing companies are looking for next-level automation—now,” stated David Griffin, chief sales officer at Seegrid. “We’re excited to debut our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.43
January 17, 2022
…our management team.” Al Moubayed previously worked as a Pittsburgh-based research scientist for Disney Imagineering, and he researched social robotics and conversational AI at KTH. He said he will spend time at Furhat’s Stockholm headquarters and Misty's offices in Colorado. Furhat Robotics said it will continue to support the Misty Robotics brand. It plans to help develop and expand the product range, as well as partially integrate Furhat and Misty features. The company also said it will add its visual perception and conversation AI platform to empower future Misty robots and allow for further customization of voice and personality for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.42
January 13, 2022
…its use for manufacturing competency assessment,” she said. The Pittsburgh-based organization did not specify the amount of funding. Three firms to develop skills-assessment simulation The ARM Institute said it will work with the selected organizations to develop a robotic technician test to be delivered via VR and/or similar simulation capabilities. They will incorporate artificial intelligence to optimize the assessment capabilities in future versions of the tool, said the organization. Lake Forest, Calif.-based SimInsights Inc. will provide the VR environment creation and assessment creation for the project. “It is a privilege to collaborate with the ARM Institute on this innovative project,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.71
January 13, 2022
…material flow and safely achieve higher levels of productivity.” Pittsburgh-based Seegrid said it combines autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), enterprise software, and services for connected materials handling automation. The company said its Palion AMRs have driven millions of production miles with no personnel safety incidents. From project design through deployment, change management, user training, and data-driven consultation, Seegrid said it provides optimized material flow in complex environments to the world’s largest manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics companies. Seegrid invests in R&D Seegrid said it has invested millions of dollars into new equipment and tools to help drive its research and development initiatives.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.31
January 08, 2022
…Korea) MIT-PITT-RW* — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Rochester Institute of Technology (New York), and University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) PoliMOVE — Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Alabama TII EuroRacing - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Technology Innovation Institute (United Arab Emirates) TUM Autonomous Motorsport - Technische Universität München (Germany) *Did not advance to Friday’s final competition. Autonomous cars vie for historic win Karen Chupka, executive vice president of CES at the Consumer Technology Association, officially started the competition with the call, “Ladies and gentlemen, start your software.” Halo, a remote-piloted driverless car service…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.68
January 05, 2022
…have 20 employees, with offices in San Francisco and Pittsburgh, and we'll add 20 more,” Linnell said. “We've partnered with MassRobotics and are looking to have a presence in Cambridge, Mass.” What are some of the differences between the West Coast and East Coast robotics communities? “On the West Coast, startups are 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.71
January 05, 2022
…culture has been strengthened based on these valuable contributions.” Pittsburgh-based RE2 Robotics provides the RE2 Sapien family of robotic arms, RE2 Detect computer vision software, and RE2 Intellect autonomy software to enable mobile manipulation systems that operate in a variety of complex indoor and outdoor environments. The company said its systems help the aviation, construction, defense, energy, and healthcare industries to enable remote operations, improve worker safety and efficiency, and reduce operational costs. RE2 touts 2021 successes In 2021, RE2 said it achieved numerous significant technical and operational successes. Highlights included the following: Celebrated its 20th anniversary, establishing RE2 as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.17
December 31, 2021
…innovations for picking robots using AI: Honeywell SmartFlex Depalletizer Pittsburgh-based Honeywell Robotics has a strong focus on machine learning innovation and implementation, according to Evans. “This isn’t just in the perspective to enhance robot performance and increase operational efficiencies, but also how we continue to quickly integrate automation solutions while on a customer site,” he said. “Having a strong understanding to generalize ML and AI models for multiple applications as the starting point for customer deployments and quickly refine the system to meet operational requirement is where we have focused our AI development,” Evans noted. “It is an advantage to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.39
December 15, 2021
…Advanced Technology Group in December 2020. In July, the Pittsburgh-based company announced its plan to merge with special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Reinvent Technology Partners Y for $1 billion and be publicly traded. It released a beta version of its Aurora Driver autonomy platform in October. San Francisco-based Uber Freight said it is a logistics broker “that connects shippers with one of the world's largest digitally-enabled carrier networks.” It is a unit of Uber Technologies Inc., which has operations in more than 900 metropolitan areas worldwide. Aurora begins operations with safety drivers in Texas “Last week, Aurora-powered trucks with vehicle operators…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.53
December 15, 2021
…address the unpredictable events in facility workflows,” he added. Pittsburgh-based Seegrid said it combines AMRs, enterprise software, and services to support the world's largest manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics companies. The company was recently named the No. 1 mobile robot provider in the U.S. and No. 1 in market share worldwide for automated tow tractors. Seegrid launched several new robot models in 2021, including the Palion Lift, which it said is the only autonomous lift truck in the market with “industry-leading” 3D perception. Seegrid and Applied Intuition Seegrid said the partnership “involves a significant invesment” and will enable it to quickly…
