Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.76
March 16, 2022
…on leading robotics and AI technology.” Members of a DARPA challenge-winning team from Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT founded RightHand Robotics in 2015. The Somerville, Mass.-based company applies computer vision and machine learning for its RightPick piece-picking system. RightHand raised $66 million in Series C funding last month. Partnership program intended to ease robotics adoption RightHand Robotics said its Partner Integrator program will make it easier for end customers to adopt robotic picking by working with their preferred automation suppliers. “The Partner Integrator program aligns business goals of system integrators, OEM technology providers, certified robot integrator…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.73
February 23, 2022
…2015 after winning a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) manipulation challenge. They focused on solving the “holy grail” of warehouse automation—piece picking for supply chain and e-commerce fulfillment, said the Somerville, Mass.-based company. RightPick deals with complex picking RightHand Robotics launched its autonomous piece-picking product in 2017. The modular, data-driven RightPick platform uses artificial intelligence, edge computing, machine vision, grippers, and collaborative robot arms. Its workflows can quickly adapt to new SKUs for streamlined and scalable order fulfillment in industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, and pharmaceuticals, said the company. The company also offers fleet management software for human…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.54
November 05, 2021
…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 9.33
May 07, 2020
…Challenge builds upon the successful impact of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, which led to expanded R&D in the field of autonomous vehicles. Sebastian Thrun, who led the winning team for the 2005 Challenge, is serving as a key advisor for the IAC. Hackathons and Simulations by ANSYS Key to the success of preparing the university competitors for the October 2021 IAC race will be a series of hackathons and workshops organized by ESN, its sponsors and collaborators. The first hackathon will be supported by ANSYS, IAC’s exclusive Simulation Sponsor and global leader in engineering simulation software. ANSYS is providing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.33
December 19, 2018
…other industries. RHR was founded in 2014 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. Related: Honeywell and Fetch Robotics Deliver Autonomous Mobile Robots to DCs Related White Papers Material Handling Industry Makes the Digital Transformation The material handling industry is in the middle of a historic digital transformation from manual to automated processes in a distribution center (DC) and fulfillment operations. Download Now! Understanding the 3Rs, Range, Rate, and Reliability, of Robotic Piece-Picking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.18
April 12, 2021
…order fulfillment. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT with the intention of applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world grasping problems. “We relaunched our site in January,” noted Vince Martinelli, head of product and marketing at RightHand Robotics. “It now has a stronger product focus to serve our customers. We're also partnering with companies such as SVT Robotics on software.” “The pandemic accelerated the shift from the older model of shoppers picking items to remote fulfillment centers and has put pressure on retail productivity,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.13
June 30, 2022
…a number of years, dating back to before the DARPA Robotics Challenge. We have had the opportunity to work with some of the leading groups trying to solve these problems and we have seen what is coming. General-purpose robots are the future, and they are coming. We have been to the mountaintop, and we have seen the Promised Land. The technology is now ready to come out of labs and into the real world. We intend to help lead the way. How far along in development are you? Cardenas: We have built a wide number of different iterations of these…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.68
December 06, 2021
…inspires new and improved algorithms in co-design. The work was supported by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Bhatia wrote the paper alongside MIT undergraduate Holly Jackson, MIT CSAIL Ph.D. student Yunsheng Tian, and Jie Xu, as well as MIT professor Wojciech Matusik. They will present the research at the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.81
July 10, 2023
…Diez said he is itching to expand from a DARPA-funded project to new deployments in the municipal and energy sectors. “We have done a lot of different types of inspections related to ship pylons,” noted the startup founder. “Now, we have [Florida’s] Department of Transportation interested in this technology,” said the startup founder. “What I realized over the last year or so is that defense has its own speed. You cannot really push it,” Diez added. “There is a specific group now in defense that is encouraging us, but it takes a couple of years.” The Navigator transitions from surface…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.80
May 22, 2020
…working on a project to do autonomous manipulation for DARPA – think a robot that would combine the mobility of an AMR with the picking capability of a robotic arm. “I was excited about the commercialization prospects for the technology and started thinking about simple material handling,” he recalled. Around that time, Kiva was acquired by Amazon. That acquisition validated the business opportunity for both roboticists like Galluzzo and the venture capitalists that were funding them. IAM Robotics raised $3 million in angel funding. Initially, Galluzzo says, IAM Robotics was going to focus on modular, low-cost robotic arms, but Galluzzo…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.72
October 23, 2021
…all 84 counties in Indiana. If you look at all the autonomous driving companies that came out of the DARPA Grand Challenge, this is the next generation of innovators.” “The IAC is an amazing laboratory, and it's shocking the progress they'll make,” Speed said. “Imagine, if we could safely double the speed of an autonomous mobile robot, we could get one-third more throughput out of any given fleet.” A livestream of the Indy Autonomous Challenge will be viewable today at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Editor's note: See our coverage of the MIT-PITT-RW team and the winner of the challenge.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.24
September 02, 2022
…years. We came out of grad school with the DARPA Robotics Challenge. People said, “See you in 20 years,” but that conversation has changed. It's now clear that robotics has tremendous utility and potential value. Industry should manage expectations What tasks won't or shouldn't robots do? Cardenas: I take a long-term view of this. Robots should be doing things that we don’t want to do to free us up for the things we do want to do. For example, my wife said that if we had a robot to do the laundry, imagine how much time we could save. There's…
