Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.47
March 08, 2023
…and helped develop Street View and other technologies at Google. At Teleo, they lead a team with decades of technology and construction industry experience from companies such as Tesla, Amazon, Zoox, BAE Systems, and Topcon. Teleo is backed by UP.Partners, Trucks Venture Capital, F-Prime Capital, K9 Ventures, and YCombinator, among others. Later this year, the startup plans to launch semi-autonomous operations in addition to its remote operations offering. Contruction partners plan for more deployments Tomahawk Construction Fort Myers, Fla.-based Tomahawk Construction has partnered with Teleo to deploy its technology on 12 articulated dump trucks for land development of residential subdivisions,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.27
December 01, 2018
…by road scanning firms like Atlatec, data giants like Google and autonomous car developers themselves. Hexagon’s product line includes the Leica Pegasus mapping platform. With connection to VTD, the product lets engineers speed up road digitization. In one project, geospatial consultant Transcend Spatial Solutions used the Pegasus system to map and digitize the span of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge (“Demystifying Mobile Mapping,” xyHt, June 2016, xyht.com). TASS International’s parent company Siemens has a partnership with Bentley Systems, known for architecture and infrastructure software. “We can import data from Bentley Systems and automatically generate a full 3D city map within…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.21
January 17, 2017
…in a very real way. As the likes of Google and Apple pour resources into the development of driverless technology, the decreased price and improved performance of the vehicles are benefiting the makers of driverless industrial vehicles. Already, Amazon is poised to become one of the biggest users—and suppliers—of automatic guided vehicles in the warehousing and distribution space. But AGVs aren’t just for those with big budgets and massive operations. In fact, AGVs aren’t even always AGVs. The “guided” part of that acronym, familiar from decades of autonomous vehicles designed to follow magnetic tapes, wires and other fixed paths, is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.16
October 09, 2020
…and now employs 500 engineers to perfect the technology. Google spun off its self-driving car company Waymo, which is working on self-driving trucks with the big truck manufacturers Daimler and Volvo. Switching to automated drivers will not only save billions, but it also has the potential to save thousands of lives. Crashes involving large trucks killed 3,903 people in the US in 2014, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and a further 110,000 people were injured. More than 90% of the accidents were caused at least in part by driver error. Driver fatigue is a factor in roughly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.83
May 01, 2019
…“SparkFun’s new edge development, based on a collaboration with Google and Ambiq, supports TensorFlow lite and is priced around $15,” says John Crupi, vice president of edge analytics at Greenwave Systems. “NVIDIA just announced a GPU-based edge board called Jetson Nano for $99. And Qualcomm’s AI Engine runs on its newer generation Snapdragon-based boards. Ultimately, the best processor type will depend on power requirements, cost and use cases.” One Way to Eliminate the Bottleneck As impressive as the advances in the digital sector are, some developers have begun to look beyond conventional technology to explore new types of processors and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.82
September 11, 2020
…Robotics on the second or third page of a Google search. Following a telephone call with the company’s founder and a trip to New Hampshire to see the robots in action in the company’s tech center, they felt they had a solution ready to move forward. Hanrahan was particularly impressed by the depth of functionality in Waypoint Robotics’ software and the experience of the engineering team. “They had at least five people who had worked on two other robots before this one,” he recalls. One of the first steps was to design a large cart on wheels that could be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.81
November 16, 2020
…Robotics on the second or third page of a Google search. Following a telephone call with the company’s founder and a trip to New Hampshire to see the robots in action in the company’s tech center, they felt they had a solution ready to move forward. Hanrahan was particularly impressed by the depth of functionality in Waypoint Robotics’ software and the experience of the engineering team. “They had at least five people who had worked on two other robots before this one,” he recalls. One of the first steps was to design a large cart on wheels that could be…
