Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.55
December 27, 2021
…for all of these needed conversations around things like interoperability to happen, but it will get many end users back out there to trade shows like Automate to see these technologies and talk to providers about the tasks they are looking to automate. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing all of my Robot Safety colleagues at R15 Week, which will be hosted by the FedEx Institute of Technology on the campus of the University of Memphis, in March and then again in Columbus, Ohio, later in the year. As more robots enter the public sphere and start to interact…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.47
April 09, 2019
…vendors and software vendors seem more open to having interoperability instead of trying to monopolize things. I feel that's a sign of maturity. We have to rely on each other.” #AMUG2019 DINO Winners: Brett Lyons, JABIL; Nate Schumacher, Midwest Prototyping; Bob Markley, 3rd Dimension; Jay Dinsmore, Dinsmore Associates; Rick Moore, US Army; Jeremy Pullin, Sartorius; Rory Jackson, RAMP; Tuan Tranpham, Desktop Metal & Jordan Weston, MSOE. pic.twitter.com/8Kjaa5aZnZ — Digital Engineering (@DEeditor) April 2, 2019 Connecting 3D Printing to the Digital Thread Fast Radius is one company focused on that integrated workflow. The company just announced it raised $48M to to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.45
July 23, 2021
…own data mining. What do you think about the interoperability efforts currently under way? Thomason: There is such a thing as standardizing APIs too early. For example, there was an early push for RPC and CORBA that went awry. Does OLAP still matter? It doesn't; the Web crushed all that. Everybody thinks the iPad was the first tablet, but before that was Windows Tablet Edition, but the hardware wasn't ready. Won't know what will be like the Web for robotics, so I'm not sure about standardiziation of functions before it makes sense. When robots are ubiquitous, we'll need anti-collision protocols,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.44
June 05, 2019
…why security is so important, cited a lack of interoperability as a sticking point and discussed a number of different technologies (AR, blockchain, AI) and how far they’ve come in the supply chain. Allen also talked about the circular economy (an economic system aimed at minimizing waste and maximizing resources) and discussed how “failure is learning” in the technology world, noting that “we should all be teaching the management chain that every failure puts you closer to success.” In his presentation on how AI is transforming the supply chain, Vineet Sinha of Johnson Controls discussed the complexity of the modern-day…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.37
May 26, 2023
…coverage of safety standards, robot operations and orchestration, and interoperability. There is broad consensus on the need for more of all of these, but rival proprietary approaches and the need to work with existing warehouse management systems (WMS) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) remain. Speaking of making robots easier to use, Open Robotics released ROS 2 Iron Irwini, marking the continuing evolution of the open-source Robot Operating System from an academic tool to a framework for commercial robotics development. Intrinsic, which Alphabet acquired from Open Robotics, announced the beta version of its Flowstate product for developers. “We've seen a lot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.34
March 30, 2021
…capability for connectivity will be a given. Communication and interoperability standards like OPC-UA will help to facilitate this process. Considering collaboration At Automate Forward last week, you participated in the session on “How Collaborative Automation Is Driving Productivity.” How have cobot arms, autonomous mobile robots, and light industrial arms with new sensor and safety features converged? Guerry: This was such a great panel, and I was honored to be included in this group of industry leaders. We discussed the rapid growth of cobot and light industrial applications. Three of us are rooted in this area. I happen to know that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.87
November 14, 2022
…to adopt mobile robots, as more companies use AMRs, interoperability is increasing in importance. Businesses will need systems from multiple vendors to work well together, from large AMRs moving pallets to picking and fulfillment systems, as well as GTP robots. This trend toward heterogenous environments is giving rise to software that can manage mobile robot fleets from a mix of vendors. “At the core of our software is the ability to work with different resources or ‘agents’ that are available, and that includes people,” said Samay Kohli, CEO at GreyOrange, an AMR provider whose GreyMatter software conducts “multi-agent orchestration.” “We…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.62
May 29, 2023
…NVIDIA. At the platform level, Omniverse lets teams build interoperability between their favorite applications, such as those from Adobe, Autodesk, and Siemens. NVIDIA also mentioned other partners. Basler, a maker of imaging sensors and systems, offers to help developers build AI-enabled inspection systems faster through tighter integration with the NVIDIA DeepStream SDK. Overview is collaborating with Advantech — both NVIDIA Metropolis partners — to build a system to support industrial inspection, product counting, and assembly verification. Quantiphi, a Metropolis partner, is working with one of the world’s largest beverage producers to automate inspections of fully packed pallets with GPU-powered vision…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.60
March 12, 2020
…data onboard,” Walker says. “The system is designed for interoperability so that when the system calling the shots calls a shot, the robot can execute the task.” This space is still evolving, and, as Berkshire Grey’s Blair noted earlier, there is a tug of war over who will be responsible for order optimization. And, it may not be an either/or situation: Depending on the company and its underlying system of record, it may be a robot execution system, it may be a WMS, it may be a warehouse execution system or it may be a work execution system. If there’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.45
October 01, 2019
…independently created and used in different systems. To ensure interoperability, the engineers incorporate industry standard modular interfaces. The driving forces behind this approach lie in seemingly mutually exclusive demands. Industrial facilities seek machines tailored to accommodate the unique demands of their applications, such as size, operating speed and specialized features. At the same time, however, plant managers place a high value on flexibility. To further complicate machine makers’ tasks, customers want the machines immediately at the lowest possible price. To meet these demands, machinery companies turn to modular strategies, making sure each functional area of the machine can be customized…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.32
April 20, 2021
…increases the need for providers that can work through interoperability among systems. “Users need more than robotics technology—they need a vendor who can act as a chief engineer or a guru who can understand the metrics and data important to each system, and what the inputs and outputs should be for a robotic solution,” said Hayes. If all of this sounds like a lot to chew on, it’s because it can be, acknowledged Klappich. To cope with the complexities of knowing what robots fit well different workflows or sites, as well as how they need to interact with the rest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.18
June 20, 2024
…gone into standardizing the operations.” Decentralized communication systems provide interoperability, allowing Ottobots to interact with infrastructure elements - such as traffic lights, automated doors, and elevators - as well as robot-to-robot communication. Centralized communication through a browser-based network operations console provides airport administrators with monitoring capabilities. The console also allows telemetry, navigation, and operational data to be collected and even shared with other robots. Using contextual AI, Ottonomy’s autonomous mobile delivery robots navigate through crowds within PIT’s terminal, learning how to interact with a variety of people. Source: Pittsburgh International Airport Vijay said during initial deployment, only one or two…
