Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.05
January 05, 2023
…instructions, a patented neural network engine, and Tensor Processing Fabric Flexible image and computer vision processing for domain-specific applications The new platform also supplies developers with H.264 compression for easy video streaming, said the company. XINK's Crypto Engine includes ARM's TrustZone for security, as well as a pseudo-random number generator and other encryption to protect user data through hardware-based isolation. eYs3D exhibits at CES 2023 eYs3D Microelectronics demonstrated the XINK development framework at CES Booth 15769 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center and at Booth 62500, AT1, Hall G, Eureka Park in the Venetian. “New technologies…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.04
August 17, 2021
…memory and power consumption. 5G makes a ubiquitous connectivity fabric for smart networks, and Qualcomm RB5 5G provides the systems performance, network security, and throughput. We have strong relationships with all the major carriers because of our mobile business.” Qualcomm added that its RB5 5G has a 10-km [6.2-mi.] range. Could the platform be used in other types of vehicles? “Absolutely. It uses the same RB5 processor as for general-purpose robots, which was out in October 2020,” replied Singh. “We'll see AGVs [automated guided vehicles], AMRs [autonomous mobile robots], service robots, and collaborative robots coming.” Dev Singh, Qualcomm “We're one…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.72
April 18, 2022
…is building out a network of automated MFCs with Fabric to house inventory on behalf of grocers so its own investments may off-set the potentially reduced number of facilities installed by grocers.” If I understand the model correctly, Instacart’s MFCs would essentially be small 3PLs located near customers to provide fast, home delivery for a variety of customers. Some inventory could be evergreen and used for all customers – Cheerios, after all, is Cheerios regardless of what grocer or convenience store you buy it from – and private-label or chain-specific inventory could be managed like inventory in any other 3PL.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
November 19, 2021
…transform industries, from agriculture and logistics to life sciences, transportation, and more. Its investments include AlphaSense, Blue River Technology, Fabric, Formlabs, Uber, and Vicarious Surgical. Machina Labs is looking to expand its team in Los Angeles. Its employees have worked at organizations including SpaceX, Microsoft, Google, Northrop Grumman, and Stratasys. For a current list of job openings at Machina Labs, visit www.machinalabs.ai/careers.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.32
December 02, 2019
…deliver goods rapidly. Companies such as Takeoff Technologies and Fabric (Commonsense Robotics) are focused on automated micro-fulfillment centers by bringing automated storage system, floor-based free roaming robots, bin racking structure, and a lift/load handling device within the racking structure. Recently, Takeoff Technologies announced that it has placed a $150 million order with Knapp, would allow for a 50-site deployment of its robotic micro-pick centers. Even Dematic who is pioneer for warehouse automation solutions, is extending its solutions for Micro-Fulfillment with Dematic Multishuttle and Goods-to-Person picking solutions. Blockchain for the digital supply chain Blockchain in supply chain establishes provenance of products,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.09
July 12, 2021
…tapping various technology partners, including Alert Innovation, Dematic, and Fabric. Tel Aviv, Israel-based Fabric also runs an automated MFC for Super-pharm, and it recently announced a second MFC project with the drugstore chain and health and beauty retailer. “Hyper-local” is a somewhat broader term centering on the need to position inventory very close to customer concentrations for rapid fulfillment. If the aim of a merchant is to quickly establish fulfillment reach and enable one- or two-day deliveries, that brings in other trends like providers of on-demand warehousing services. Think of the service-level needed as a key demarcation point. Hyper-local fulfillment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.94
January 28, 2022
…team plans to develop automated trajectory planning for forming fabric-based prepregs to contours, automated in-process inspection for un-compacted areas and automated generation of rework tool paths, and self-corrective robotic recovery for prepreg backing film-removal failures. Safe Robotic Handling of Energetic Materials Lead: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Partners: Schlumberger, Interface Technologies, FANUC Description: The project team aims to develop fundamental technologies for robotic handling of energetic materials. Manufacturing with energetic materials imposes numerous constraints on the manufacturing process. Among these are limitations on the mass of energetic material that can be present at any given time within a given space. In this…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.93
March 25, 2019
…networking, the networking and computing will become one continuous fabric,” he said. What followed was the announcement that NVIDIA was buying Mellanox, an interconnect solution providers, for $6.9 billion. Mellanox has been a long-time partner of NVIDIA. With this acquisition, NVIDIA gains the ability to engineer advantageous interconnects directly into its GPU-accelerated supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. “Datacenters in the future will be architected as giant compute engines with tens of thousands of compute nodes, designed holistically with their interconnects for optimal performance,” the company explains in its press release. “With Mellanox, NVIDIA will optimize datacenter-scale workloads across the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.87
September 01, 2019
…new world of product expectations, driven by a digital fabric, a super-agile supply chain and a crowd of end users who want parts as fast as possible. Perry points out that since the industrial revolution, manufacturing companies have sold and mass-produced products that are the same design. That was then. This is now, though. “The problem with that model is that people don’t want exactly the same product,” says Perry. “Today, more companies than ever are able to market to niche audiences—with a small production volume—because cloud fabrication is now possible. And for the future, it’s the holy grail for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.52
July 16, 2023
…3 million motion-planning problems using a pipeline of geometric fabrics from NVIDIA Omniverse and 700 million point clouds rendered in simulation. Training it on large datasets enables navigation of unknown environments in the real world. Apart from directly learning a trajectory model as in MπNets, the team also recently unveiled a new point cloud-based collision model called CabiNet. With the CabiNet model, one can deploy general purpose pick-and-place policies of unknown objects beyond a tabletop setup. CabiNet was trained with over 650,000 procedurally generated simulated scenes and was evaluated in NVIDIA Isaac Gym. Training with a large synthetic dataset allowed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.69
May 01, 2019
…have surfaced. One such view anticipates an inclusive, global fabric. “We expect the system to consist of many smart sensors that interact locally with each other—we call this the ‘extreme edge level’—but also with multiple edge devices that interact with each other and with local cloud servers, eventually up to the real global cloud server,” says Rudy Lauwereins, vice president of digital and user-centric solutions at IMEC. Other industry leaders envision a system with more limited interaction between smart sensors and the cloud. “Having been extensively involved in fingerprint and heart-based sensing/access control, I can add that there is a…
