Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.49
November 22, 2022
…products, but on its path, it encounters something its navigation system doesn’t recognize and gets tripped up. Workers on the floor don’t immediately recognize the robot has stopped, and the problem needs to be addressed quickly to avoid potential backups. New York-based SparkAI said it has developed a system designed to account for this kind of situation by combining software, artificial intelligence, and human intervention. The company pitches its product as a three-step system. Let’s say a robot encounters a problem like the one described above. The first thing it does is connect to SparkAI’s API, and a human specialist…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
November 14, 2022
…smart following technology that allows humans to lead other robots and machines It will provide a larger range of navigation methods—remote control, autonomous, and following—in dynamic environments, said Piaggio.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.39
November 10, 2022
…and the integrated robotic solution handles the complexities of self-navigation without needing a map, GPS, or wireless infrastructure. The result is a detailed and accurate map collected with minimal human intervention and risk, the companies claimed. “The integration of autonomous surveying technology into a construction workflow has groundbreaking potential,” said Aviad Almagor, vice president of technology innovation at Trimble. “It can improve operational efficiency and transparency throughout the build lifecycle while also transforming worker safety for potentially hazardous data collection.” “Industry has been waiting for reliable and robust autonomous technology to transform difficult and dangerous activities. Exyn's technology is helping…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.49
November 10, 2022
…management system with integrated swarm technology and onboard laser navigation will manage the jointly offered robots, said the partners. “We are thrilled to enter this partnership with Element Logic and proud to work together with such a prestigious player of the industry, renowned across Europe and globally,” said Pieter Feenstra, CEO of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region at Addverb. “Our ability to serve the market demand will exponentially increase, offering access to a complete solution combining AutoStore systems and mobile robots,” he said. “We believe the strong portfolio, innovation expertise, and depth of resources we are bringing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.75
November 07, 2022
…and artificial intelligence that can handle perception and safe navigation. STRADVISION last month rebranded itself as it expands the capabilities of its safety-certified SVNet software. Founded in 2014, STRADVISION said it is working to accelerate the advent of fully autonomous vehicles with more affordable advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS). The company said 559,967 vehicles were using SVNet as of June 2022, and 13 OEMs are developing more than 50 models with it. STRADVISION’s stated sales goal is to introduce the award-winning software in 50% of the cars produced annually within 10 years. STRADVISION refocuses on applications, adds execs In response to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.91
November 02, 2022
…Diego-based company said the new version improves localization and navigation performance, enhances safety and reliability, and improves human and robot interactions. The company claims that over 20,000 mobile robots around the world operate using Brain OS to clean floors, move inventory and sense environmental data. The new platform was designed to be modular and to promote faster and easier product development, including the development of new vision-based AI data applications, according to Brain Corp. The first robots to use the new platform will be deployed in late 2023 to early 2024, the company said. “We're immensely excited about the potential…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.13
October 30, 2022
…and software for autonomous material handling operations with precise navigation and robust pallet picking and movement. Deep learning systems use onboard cameras and lidar sensors to detect pallets, boxes, and other obstacles in real time. The intelligent systems also enable the forklift to pick pallets out of trailers it is seeing for the first time, said the company. Fox claimed that it has solved the hardest forklift challenge to date – unloading trailers without modifying the warehouse environment – and that it has a clear path to automating all pallet movement. Each forklift can be delivered and installed in under…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.50
October 28, 2022
…there are two veins of early research into stable navigation,” Saunders told Robotics 24/7. “The first is a very stable platform, where the features of the body are static for the length of the procedure, such as Lasik eye surgery,” he explained. “They could also see large bones or mount tacking devices on them, and there are eight robots for just the spine on the market today.” “The second is laparoscopic surgery, where you make a small hole and fill the abdomen with gas and then look around,” added Saunders. “The first procedure was done in 1989, and Intuitive Surgical's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.44
October 26, 2022
…modules run six cameras that aid in mapping and navigation, as well as wheel odometry to measure how far a robot has moved. “Cartken chose the Jetson edge AI platform because it offers superior embedded computational performance, which is needed to run Cartken's advanced AI algorithms,” said Bersch. “In addition, the low energy consumption allows Cartken's robots to run a whole day on a single battery charge.” Cartken’s robots use Jetson to run simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, to automatically build maps of their surroundings for navigation. “They are basically Level 4 autonomy—it’s based on visual processing, so we…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.48
October 25, 2022
…company has been developing “drag-and-drop” AI for robot mapping, navigation, and autonomous decision-making for more than 10 years. “We created Nimbus to help expedite new robotics ventures by supplying a proven ecosystem for development, deployment, management, and seamless cloud connectivity,” said Dr. Yehuda Elmaliach, co-founder and CEO of Cogniteam. 634AI MAESTRO provides view of entire facility floor SIXAI subsidiary 634AI has developed MAESTRO, which uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to streamline management of goods, equipment, human-driven vehicles, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). The Israel-based company claimed that its modular system can track movement and improve safety at an affordable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.43
October 23, 2022
…robot gets real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) from a satellite navigation system to locate pests and weeds. Carbon Robotics has also developed a weeding system for farms, while Tertill has built robots for gardens. 3. Robots plant and seed on the farm In the past few years, engineers have pushed robotics to perform more complex tasks such as planting and seeding. Drones or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can not only survey fields, but they can also support precision agriculture with real-time data collection for analysis and insight. Companies such as American Robotics and UAV Systems International have developed aerial imaging and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.19
October 20, 2022
…robot to be used as an input to the navigation stack. H.264 Video Encode and Decode: Hardware-accelerated packages for compressed video data recording and playback. Video data collection is an important part of training AI perception models. The performance of these new GEMs on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform measured at 2x 1080p stereo cameras at 30 fps (>120 fps total), reducing data footprint by ~10x. Mission Dispatch and Client Mission Dispatch and Client provide a standard, open source way to assign and track tasks between a fleet management system and ROS 2 robots. Dispatch and Client communicate using…
