Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.29
January 05, 2022
…“We are excited to unveil Ottobots at our first CES,” said Ritukar Vijay, CEO of Ottonomy. “The pandemic has provided Ottobots a catalyst enabling a series of partnerships that allowed us to launch fully autonomous delivery for indoor deliveries, curbside deliveries, and last-mile deliveries.” Ottonomy said its robots can provide contactless deliveries through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model. The company is backed by Connetic Ventures and angel investors. Ottobots use proprietary navigation The Ottobots create a digital map of the serviceable area and localize within that map. Their live locations get updated on the map while they are navigating autonomously to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.61
January 03, 2022
…as a premier sponsor of the Autonomous Challenge @ CES. It has also selected Halo powered by T-Mobile 5G as the official pace car. The IAC said it will make history at the Consumer Electronics Show with the first high-speed, head-to-head autonomous racecar competition at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. “The Indy Autonomous Challenge is working to advance tech that will speed the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles and deployments of advanced driver-assistance systems,” said Paul Mitchell, president and CEO of Indianapolis-based Energy Systems Network (ESN). “We are proud to partner with these sponsors as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56
December 15, 2021
…and it recently won the robotics category in the 2021 NextGen Supply Chain Solution Provider Awards. HAI Robotics builds HAIPORT to increase throughput HAIPORT is an automatic loading and unloading machine that can be docked with HAI ROBOTICS’ ACRs and conveyor workstations. At a HAIPORT-powered Workstation, multiple loads of totes or cartons are unloaded from the HAIPICK robots at the HAIPORT loader. They are then transferred onto conveyor belts for sorting per system orders and moved to the HAIPORT unloader, where they were fetched by robots for the next round of order processing. The collaboration between the HAIPICK robots, HAIPORT,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.46
December 10, 2021
…“Our commitment to stringent certifications such as SGS, ETL, CE, and UL, as well as full compliance with local regulations and OSHA standards, are just a few of the reasons that we have been able to provide rapid deployment and a 100% project success rate in more than 300 deployments worldwide,” said Brian Zheng, U.S. general manager at HAI Robotics. Founded in 2016, HAI Robotics serves customers in more than 30 countries and regions. The company said it applies robotics and artificial intelligence for efficient, flexible, and customized warehouse automation. HAI Robotics has raised a total more than $200 million…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.73
September 30, 2021
…of its ActivInsights software in the U.S. and Europe. “2021 continues to be a critical year for Activ Surgical, as we are laser-focused on democratizing surgical care at the global level,” stated Todd Usen, CEO of Activ Surgical. “We received FDA clearance for our ActivSight enhanced visualization module that will power the ActivInsights software suite. [We] were issued our first U.S. patent for ActivSight, as well as completed our first in-human clinical trials and have grown our team by 35%.” “We went from concept to design, submittal to the FDA, and approval in April, all within two years,” said Dr.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.66
August 20, 2021
…Hominis system in countries outside the U.S., including the CE Mark from the European Union. As part of its research and development efforts, Memic plans to pursue general surgery and transluminal indications for the system. Hominis is designed for intuitive surgeon control. Source: Memic Innovative Surgery Peregrine incubated Memic Peregrine Ventures was founded in 2001 by serial entrepreneurs Eyal Lifschitz and Boaz Lifschitz, who have been active in the establishment of startups since the 1990s. The Or Yehuda, Israel-based firm invests in fields including medical devices. It said its exits, not including Memic, are worth an accumulated value of more…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.66
July 11, 2021
…in Portland, Ore., that Verizon acquired in 2017. At CES 2021 in January, Verizon and partners Skyward and UPS announced connected drone deliveries to The Villages, a retirement community in Florida that has tested a number of autonomous systems. More recently, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Skyward to test cellular-connected drones and software for complex operations such as beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights and universal traffic management (UTM). The FAA is also working with American Robotics Inc. and Scientific Applications & Research Associates Inc. (SARA) on applying SARA's acoustics-based collision-avoidance technology with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.75
May 24, 2021
…in addition to Korean approval in 2019 and European CE certification last year. CUREXO was founded in 2006 and acquired the assets of U.S.-based ISS in 2007. It claimed to have developed the “world’s first fully automatic surgical robot.” In addition, the company said it took over the healthcare services sector of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. as part of its efforts to build up its research and development, hire the best researchers in South Korea, and manufacture leading medical robots. CUREXO is also a shareholder in Fremont, Calif.-based THINK Surgical Inc., which has developed orthopedic surgical robots. CUVIS-spine designed for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.73
May 12, 2021
…to launch ToF cameras Orbbec announced its plan at CES 2021 to introduce its new time-of-flight (ToF) camera product line, supporting multiple ToF sensors, on-board depth computing, six-axis IMU (inertial measurement unit) motion tracking, and multi-camera synchronization. ToF is a technology for capturing the exact position and shape of objects and scenes, said Orbbec. Similar in principle of how ultrasound uses sound waves to create an image, ToF uses light to measure shapes, movement, and position of static or moving objects with pinpoint accuracy and at greater distances than previously available in the market. Orbbec said it is partnering with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
April 26, 2021
…of corn—per second.” The X Series combines received a 2021 CES Innovation Award in the robotics category. See & Spray for sustainability Last month, Deere & Co. launched its See & Spray technology. “It has 36 cameras and 96 nozzles to apply pesticides,” Haecker said. “With computer vision and machine learning, it can identify a weed less than an inch tall and spray pesticide in an area around it.” “To use another analogy, a small pizza box is 1 sq. ft.,” he said. “At 2,000 feet-per-second coverage or one weed in 2,000 boxes, the robot could spray an area of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
April 23, 2021
…in 2019, and Teledyne Technologies bought FLIR in January 2021 for $8 billion.] Our exoskeletons are designed to meet the needs of both government and commercial customers in logistics, maintenance, and repair. Building better robots Can you give an example of the technical developments so far? Wolff: We're working with a customer on stacking boxes on shelves in a warehouse. The shelves are a little more than 5 ft. high, and the exoskeleton's wrists didn't rotate enough for that use case. We try to limit degrees of freedom for weight; we want our systems to be efficient and cost-effective. We…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.03
April 07, 2021
…yesterday announced that two of its systems have received CE Mark approval. Products must meet strict European Economic Area safety, health, and environmental regulations to get CE Marks. The Seattle-based company noted that the approvals build on its prior certifications under similar U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements. “There are growing certifications not just in wireless charging, but also across robotics,” said Ben Waters, co-founder and CEO of WiBotic. “For instance, the importance of energy efficiency has elevated as electrification has grown as an industry. We want to make sure our customers can move forward quickly.” TR-301 wirelessly charges robots,…
