Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.99
December 08, 2021
…was even fined.” “All the large data-driven companies—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others—are based in the U.S. and China,” Østergaard noted. “The EU wants to compete, but the new combination of laws could make it impossible for European companies to do so. It's like running a race with a 10 kg [22 lb.] backpack on.” Esben Østergaard. Source: LinkedIn “Regulators don't want AI to turn evil and take over, but there's a fundamental difference between what's actually possible with AI and previous safety rules that addressed sawmills cutting limbs off of people,” he said. “It's better to say that machines should…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.10
December 04, 2021
…Florida soon and across the U.S. by 2024. And Amazon, which is one of the largest retailers and shippers, is already using Plus’ autonomous technology. We recently inked the industry’s first lidar production agreement with Plus, which is planning to bring over 100,000 autonomous trucks with its PlusDrive system to roads in the U.S., China, and Europe by the end of 2025. Aeva stays in the lidar lane Does Aeva have any plans for self-driving passenger cars or mobile robots for deliveries? Kuepper: We don’t have plans to start making vehicles or delivery robots ourselves. Our belief is that no…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
November 30, 2021
…face of disruption or be limited with production setbacks. Amazon has increased capacity and demand planning to balance its customers’ needs with any possible occurrence of a supply chain disruption. In order to maintain its two-day delivery process, Amazon has prepared for the holidays with more planes, trucks, ships, vans, and added port capacity. Although Amazon employed more than 1.46 million full- and part-time workers as of Sept. 30, the retail giant plans to add over 120,000 seasonal employees in the U.S. and over 20,000 in the U.K. to keep warehouses well-staffed. Unfortunately, the addition of new hires and forms…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.44
November 29, 2021
Leading into this week's re:Invent event, Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of AWS IoT RoboRunner, a new service intended to make it easier for companies to build and deploy applications for robotic fleets. The unit of Amazon.com Inc. also announced the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator in partnership with MassRobotics. AWS re:Invent, which is being held this week in Las Vegas and virtually, is Amazon Web Services' annual event featuring numerous technology announcements and user workshops. Amazon said that the AWS IoT RoadRunner and the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator reflect its ongoing commitment to helping robotics developers, including through…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.90
November 25, 2021
…100% repeat customers.” “With logistics and fulfillment experience at Amazon, iHerb and other retail companies, I've worked with a lot of technology teams, and the Nimble team is the most impressive robotics team I've ever worked with,” said Jonathan Styles, director of continuous improvement-lean at iHerb. “They are bringing to market bleeding-edge technology and solving extremely hard problems in a market that is struggling to find labor. We have over 20 Nimble robots today and plan to add more as we grow our fulfillment capabilities.” “There are a dozen or so robotics companies that claim to have a robotic picking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.05
November 17, 2021
…challenges of developing robotics applications. Organizations such as NASA, Amazon, Formant, and Kindred have partnered with the company to develop robotics applications. PickNik leads MoveIt development PickNik Robotics also leads the development of the open-source MoveIt project, a widely used framework within the Robot Operating System (ROS). Companies and academics use the motion-planning software to enable robotic arms to interact with and manipulate objects. MoveIt is now used worldwide in hundreds of robots, including projects by Google, Microsoft, Fetch Robotics, Kinova, and Franka Emika. For example, robotic arms are used in space missions to repair satellites and augment astronauts inside…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.87
November 14, 2021
…This category also involves universal fleet managers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers its RoboMaker product. The goal of orchestration, explained Klappich, is to more easily establish unified workflows using different robots. For instance, a larger AMR or an autonomous lift truck can bring pallets to replenish a pick area supported by another type of robot. There generally is less need for such a solution if a company is new to robotics, advised Klappich. “The need depends on the complexity of the environment,” he said. “If you are an operation just getting started with robotics and want to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.75
November 09, 2021
…sustainable transportation.” Last week, FreightWaves speculated that concerns about Amazon.com Inc.'s potential purchase of 1,000 vehicles from Plus, which operates largely in China and has Chinese shareholders, could provoke an investigation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. Neither party will be required to pay the other a termination fee as a result of the mutual decision to terminate the merger agreement. Plus remains part of autonomous truck popularity The merger would have yielded about $500 million in gross proceeds at closing, bringing Plus' valuation to approximately $3.3 billion. The company had previously raised $420 million in February.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.42
November 08, 2021
…on the market and could enable new applications. “At Amazon's re:MARS conference in 2019, Jeff Bezos said that people 40 years ago thought that the hardest challenges would be in artificial intelligence and machine learning,” recalled Zakareya Hussein, CEO of Touchlab. “Many of those have been addressed, but grasping is still hard.” “We were approached by clients trying to solve the grasping problem,” he told Robotics 24/7. “We're aware that physical robots are the future and looked the tiger in the eye. With electronic skin, we can enable robots to pick and place fresh produce.” Why touch matters Robotics designers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
November 05, 2021
…the research alongside MIT CSAIL Ph.D. student Jie Xu and Agrawal. The research is funded by Toyota Research Institute, Amazon Research Award, and DARPA Machine Common Sense Program. It will be presented at the 2021 Conference on Robot Learning.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.57
October 28, 2021
…week, Near Earth announced that Guy Kimchi, co-founder of Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery service of Amazon.com Inc., has joined its board of directors. Kajima takes drone inspections indoors Manual tunnel inspections are time-consuming for site employees because of the long distances between construction sections and the irregular environments that require continuous climbing and ducking to get through, noted Near Earth Autonomy. Manually performing inspection tasks can also be dangerous because tunnel and underground sites are generally dark and narrow. Autonomous drones can accelerate the progress of inspection tasks and eliminate the risk of human injury, the company added.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.08
October 22, 2021
Not only is Amazon.com Inc. one of the most prominent users of robotics, but it is also scaling up production. The Seattle-based online retailer yesterday announced the opening of a “first of its kind” robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough, Mass. The new factory will expand Amazon Robotics' manufacturing capability in the U.S. and will create more than 200 jobs in the state. “Massachusetts offers a highly talented workforce, and this Amazon facility opening further cements our state’s reputation as a key center for robotics development,” said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. “The opening of this new, state-of-the-art robotics facility creates new…
