Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.50
September 22, 2016
…to come up with a uniform set of policies. Google and Ford are among the top companies pushing driverless car innovations. The 15-point federal checklist, intended to serve as a benchmark for all autonomous vehicles to meet before they go to market, hits on a variety of safety expectations. Among them: Sharing driving data with regulators so they can do root cause analysis on crashes or system breakdowns; the ability for vehicles to respond safely in the event of crashes or system malfunctions; and the need for safeguards to ensure security and prevent online attacks. Also outlined in the checklist…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.91
January 21, 2022
…team has experience from companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft, Uber, Cruise, and Zoox, as well as from Northern California agriculture operations such as Trattore Farms. Agtonomy platform widens workforce Farmers must make continuous improvements, weather labor shortages, and reduce field-to-table timelines, all while working with tight budgets and seasonal challenges, said Agtonomy. The company said its platform turns tractors and other equipment into autonomous machines providing a low-cost, technology-enabled labor force to remotely manage such equipment. By partnering with some of the most trusted names in agricultural OEM equipment, Agtonomy claimed that it will deliver immediate value…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.59
November 22, 2017
…the big money chasing them extends from Apple and Google to General Motors and Otto, to name just a few of the many. It’s entirely possible that autonomous vehicles are the best funded R&D project in the history of mankind. “Autonomous vehicles are a competition, a race. The quickest and best companies at it will make billions if not trillions from the technology,” says Kevin Lacy, director of the transportation, mobility and safety division for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. See “The Interview” in this edition of NextGen Supply Chain for Lacy’s state-level view of autonomous vehicles. Part of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.00
July 23, 2021
X Development LLC, the innovation unit of Google Inc. parent Alphabet Inc., today announced that it has launched Intrinsic, a robotics software and artificial intelligence company. Intrinsic said it is developing software to give industrial robots the ability to sense, learn, and adapt to their environments so they can work in a wider range of applications. “Intrinsic is working to unlock the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers,” said Wendy Tan-White, CEO of Intrinsic. “We’re developing software tools designed to make industrial robots—which are used to make everything from solar panels to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.81
February 13, 2017
…for potential license to other companies. Founded by former Google and Uber leaders, Argo AI is bringing together some of the most experienced roboticists and engineers working in autonomy from inside and outside of Ford. The team of experts in robotics and artificial intelligence is led by Argo AI founders Bryan Salesky, company CEO, and Peter Rander, company COO. Both are alumni of Carnegie Mellon National Robotics Engineering Center and former leaders on the self-driving car teams of Google and Uber, respectively. “The next decade will be defined by the automation of the automobile, and autonomous vehicles will have as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.69
March 19, 2016
…its own self-driving technology, using engineers it poached from Google and Carnegie Mellon University. The company recently announced plans to expand its Pittsburgh facility to include a test track for driverless cars. “Uber isn’t valued at more than $50 billion because it’s a ‘taxi app,’ but because investors see Uber as a logistics company.” - Adrian Gonzalez, Adelante SCM Still, purchasing a fleet of cars, especially one of such size, has not been part of Uber’s playbook so far. The company’s business model relies heavily on drivers using their own personal vehicles, or ones leased from for-hire vehicle companies. If…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.54
August 28, 2019
…to traditional cargo airlines and “last-mile” trucking companies, the innovation is gaining traction with shippers serving small regional markets. Google’s parent company Alphabet, for example, has the FAA’s blessing to begin food delivery in Virginia using the same drone technology it now uses in food logistics in Australia. Amazon introduced its Prime Air delivery drone last June, with the intent to deliver food from the Amazon platform. Finally, Uber Eats is testing the first ever commercial application of drone food delivery in high-density urban areas. The initial customer tests will showcase what the future of food logistics may look like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.42
March 15, 2017
…computer vision capabilities for cars. $2 Trillion Alphabet Inc.’s Google has clocked more than 2 million self-driving test miles on public roads, Tesla has gathered data from 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles, and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG has partnered with Uber Technologies Inc. Google, which separated its self-driving car project into a new unit called Waymo last year, plans to start a ride-sharing service using semi-autonomous minivans made by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV as soon as the end of 2017. Volkswagen AG is rolling out Moia, a new division that will focus on ride-sharing and other mobility…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.27
January 13, 2023
…Development LLC innovation unit launched Intrinsic in 2021. The Google Inc. parent company said at the time that Intrinsic would develop software to give industrial robots “the ability to sense, learn, and automaticly make adjustments as they're completing tasks, so they work in a wider range of settings and applications.” Layoffs come after recent acquisitions Intrinsic told TechCrunch it was making the decision as part of “shifts in prioritization and our longer-term strategic direction.” The news comes about a month after the company announced that it had acquired Open Source Robotics Corp. (OSRC), Open Robotics’ commercial division, for an undisclosed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.14
July 20, 2023
…address the technical, cost, and time challenges associated with the development of advanced robotic applications. Many organizations, including NASA, Google, Amazon, and Samsung, have partnered with PickNik, said the company. Boulder, Colo.-based PickNik also supports and collaborates with the worldwide open-source robotics movement and is the lead developer of MoveIt and MoveIt Studio.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.07
December 06, 2018
Transforming the Way Goods Are Transported As reported by TechCrunch, Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe. Wing announced that it will start a new pilot in Finland beginning in the spring of 2019 in Helsinki, delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds) within a distance of up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). Deliveries will be available for free as part of the trial, although the company intends to charge for them if a full commercial service launches.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.99
January 10, 2020
…to Predictive CAD In May 16, 2018, explaining how Google uses neural networks to speed up Gmail users’ email composition in a blog post, Yonghui Wu, Principal Engineer of the Google Brain Team, wrote, “Smart Compose is a new feature in Gmail that uses machine learning to interactively offer sentence completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to draft emails faster. Building upon technology developed for Smart Reply, Smart Compose offers a new way to help you compose messages—whether you are responding to an incoming email or drafting a new one from scratch.” Similar types of R&D efforts are ongoing…
