Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.98
February 01, 2020
…for the company’s commercial strategy and business execution in the Americas region. He has more than 25 years of GM, engineering and technology management experience. He holds a B.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.84
June 24, 2021
…leading robot manufacturers; end users such as Amazon, Ford, GM, Honda, P&G, Nissan; and other government and non-government organizations such as the National Institute of Standads and Technology (NIST), UL, TUV, and academia to develop ANSI RIA 15.08-1. “As the AMR market has grown, so too has the need for accompanying safety standards in the U.S. and abroad,” said Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). “OTTO Motors’ participation on our standards committee and leadership on this issue has helped to raise the bar for worker safety.” OTTO claimed that its fleet meets or exceeds the new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.83
November 05, 2020
…full potential of large-scale additive manufacturing,” said Ramon Pastor, GM and Global Head of 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing, HP Inc. “We are committed to relentlessly improving our capabilities and helping customers optimize and automate workflows, enable compelling new applications, and produce sustainable, high quality parts at scale.” The new Universal Build Manager leverages proprietary HP software and the Dyndrite Accelerated Geometry Engine. The new additive manufacturing build manager takes advantage of the GPU-accelerated processing and Python scriptability inherent to Dyndrite’s engine. According to the company, this combination enables customers to simplify and automate build preparation across their additive manufacturing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.81
August 17, 2023
…Motrec's electric autonomous tuggers. Motrec said its customers include GM, FedEx, Tesla, and Walmart. Cyngn is also collaborating with BYD to add Cyngn's artificial intelligence capabilities to BYD's electric lift trucks. Their goal is to address labor shortages and consistency challenges while simultaneously enhancing safety. Cyngn said it plans to launch the DriveMod Forklifts commercially starting in 2024. Innovative proprietary technology Cyngn released EAS 9.0, which comes with tools that customers can use to manage and monitor their fleets from any location. The latest version of EAS allows customers to manage more data from the field and includes mission-planning capabilities,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.80
September 11, 2018
…experience in manufacturing, including a stint with robotics at GM. Parrott’s message: While most of us think of robotics as futuristic – and there is a lot of work to be done to adapt robots to the uncertainty, unstructured environments and large variety of SKUs that is common to distribution – they’re actually here and in the field now. Robots are already doing palletizing, layer picking, case picking and piece picking in distribution, as well as horizontal travel. They’re just not doing it in large numbers. One another note – while there are a lot of vendors trying to tackle…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.53
April 09, 2018
…says Parrott, who began her career in robotics at GM in the 1980’s, has been the ability for the robot to “see what a person can see when the robot doesn’t know what’s coming.” For that reason, piece picking robots have primarily been used in manufacturing or distribution applications like case palletizing that involved low SKU counts or low volume products that didn’t have a lot of variation. “In e-commerce fulfillment, you’re dealing with random totes and thousands of SKUs,” she says. What’s changed in the last few years is the low cost of computing, powerful but lower priced sensors,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.49
January 07, 2022
…in a way generally reserved for an OEM like GM or Tesla. Speaking of commercialization, how much is the race toward more autonomous vehicles affecting the IAC? Mitchell: There's a lot from our competition feeding back into the autonomous race. Most of the components in our race cars have had some type of stepwise improvements made by our teams and transferred to sponsor companies. They've led to everything from firmware updates used in products worldwide to changes in their base software settings and parameters. For instance, we didn't know before that some subsystem would shut down under certain conditions. That…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.46
December 31, 2020
…data are key to delivering mass-customization of parts and unlocking the full potential of large-scale AM,” says Ramon Pastor, GM and global head of 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing, HP. HP’s COVID-related projects involved mostly the HP Jet Fusion printers capable of printing in polymer. The company also offers metal 3D printing via its HP Metal Jet technology, working closely with production partners such as Germany-based GKN and the San Francisco Bay Area-based Parmatech.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
September 15, 2020
…when the outbreak began, Venture Beat reported, “Waymo, Uber, GM’s Cruise, Aurora, Argo AI and Pony.ai are among the companies that have suspended driverless vehicle programs in the hopes of limiting contact between drivers and riders” (“Coronavirus fears halt autonomous vehicle testing”). In theory, the significantly lighter traffic during the shutdown seems to offer an opportunity to ramp up road testing, but in practice, the 6-feet-apart social-distancing requirements make it difficult to run tests even with the smallest possible team—two people. “Near-empty roads create an abnormal condition,” notes Sovani. “This is not ideal for testing, because you don’t want to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
May 24, 2019
…sessions in the Motor City of Detroit, home to GM, Ford and Chrysler. Though autonomous vehicle technology and 3D printing’s role in automotive surfaced as relevant topics at the show, the auto sector was just one focal point among many on the 3D printing landscape being discussed at the event. Joe Louis, famed boxer, greets guests upon entering the Cobo Center for the RAPID+TCT 2019 annual conference. “This event is an annual celebration of additive manufacturing and the achievement and dedication of this community,” 2019 SME President Mark Michalski said in his opening remarks. “In just one generation, this technology…
