Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.59
January 18, 2022
…be the first to deploy autonomy in 100 cities. Microsoft joins funding round Wayve said it has raised more than $258 million in equity to date, and industry observers speculated about whether it has reached “unicorn” status, or $1 billion valuation. Eclipse Ventures led Wayve's Series B round, with participation from new investors including D1 Capital Partners, Baillie Gifford, Moore Strategic Ventures LLC, and Linse Capital. Microsoft and Virgin provided additional support, as did early-stage investors Compound and Balderton Capital. They joined strategic investor and online grocer Ocado Group and angel investors including AI and industry leaders such as Sir…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.60
August 04, 2023
…by NVIDIA and an AI “Most Valuable Professional” by Microsoft, Vuksic got started with artificial intelligence and IT about a decade ago when working for a startup that classified tattoos with vision AI. Since then, he has worked as an engineering and technical manager, among other roles, developing IT strategies and solutions for various companies. Robotics has always interested him, as he was a huge sci-fi fan growing up. “Watching Star Wars and other films, I imagined how robots might be able to see and do stuff in the real world,” said Vuksic, also a member of the NVIDIA Developer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.32
August 21, 2020
…spanning customers across retail, B2B, food & beverage, and one of the largest luxury retailers in the U.S., Nordstrom. Microsoft also partners with Attabotics for cloud-based supply chain management on the Azure platform.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.90
August 08, 2024
…Series B round, including in the investors were OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others. Along with the funding, OpenAI and Figure AI announced the companies had reached a collaboration agreement to develop AI models. The research combines OpenAI’s neural network and artificial intelligence with Figure’s humanoid hardware and software. Figure 02, according to the company, is able to maintain a conversation with humans through the humanoid robot’s microphones and speakers. The companies developed and tested custom AI models to enhance Figure 02’s responses and conversation ability. Design enhancements on Figure 02 Along with the neural network and AI updates, Figure 02…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.48
July 19, 2021
…Inc. and former president of servers and tools at Microsoft Corp., will join its board of directors. “The wonders of today’s world are created using digital models,” said Muglia. “The circuits within our smartphones, advanced materials, pharmaceuticals, and aeronautics are all examples of advanced technologies built using digital modeling. Although these advancements have been amazing, the tools and systems that support these efforts are decades old and cannot take full advantage of the cloud.” “The Julia Computing team has rocked this world by building JuliaHub, a modern platform for technical and scientific modeling,” he added. “JuliaHub is poised to advance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.26
August 11, 2020
…and AM hardware sector. It was initially spearheaded by Microsoft and HP. “Our goal is to provide a specification that eliminates the issues with currently available file formats, and allows companies to focus on innovation, rather than on basic interoperability issues,” the Consortium states in its home page. While AM software developers and users have acknowledged 3MF file format's richer set of features (support for color and multimaterial structures, to name but two), STL remains an entrenched format, likely here to stay for the long haul. Baldez said, “STL has been around since 1987, so it's been a while ...…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.25
April 30, 2021
…to support ROS 2 on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Amazon AWS RoboMaker starting in the second half of 2021. It added that it anticipates more robot applications incorporating the cloud and artificial intelligence to be deployed. To familiarize users to ROS 2 and expose its new features to operators, Doosan said it will supply tutorial packages on creating robot functions via its partner supporting site, Doosan Robot LAB. Video tutorials on ROS application will also be available on the site. Doosan Robotics has been supporting ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic since 2019, and additionally distributed the ROS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.11
June 01, 2023
…today announced that it has worked with NVIDIA and Microsoft to develop the Femto Mega RGB+Depth camera, a high-performance vision sensor for sectors such as robotics, industrial automation, and healthcare. “We are excited to announce that Orbbec is in the process of integrating the Femto Mega and other cameras with the ecosystem surrounding NVIDIA Omniverse, an open development platform for building and operating metaverse applications,” said the company in a release. “This move will enable customers using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulation toolkit, to swiftly design their vision systems, enhancing the realism and precision of AI system design and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.08
October 02, 2020
…for America's Students” sponsored by MFG Day's National Sponsors Microsoft, PTC and Salesforce, featuring leaders in the manufacturing industry and Netflix star Emily Dawn Calandrelli of Emily's Wonder Lab. A full schedule of national, local and regional events can be found here. To reach more people across the country, MFG Day will run throughout October, Manufacturing Month, and will feature engaging virtual events on CreatorsWanted.org, including the following events: Friday, Oct. 2, at 12:00 p.m. EDT—The official kick-off to MFG Day with the following special guests and speakers: Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the NAM Dr. Walt Copan, under…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.85
June 19, 2019
…or on clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. MATLAB Parallel Server offers access to cluster resources through the familiar MATLAB environment, provides the ability to run on multiple machines without algorithm changes, and helps to access cloud clusters or local high-performance computing (HPC) resources. Expanded access also offers flexibility in working with academic researchers, students, and faculty from other institutions by offering them access to MATLAB and Simulink. Now these academicians can access MATLAB on authorized campus machines and university HPC clusters for their non-commercial work. This helps to support collaborative research projects across institutions and provides…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.39
April 25, 2022
…company said it was working on time-of-flight cameras using Microsoft Corp.'s Azure platform. Persee+ includes numerous improvements Orbbec said the Persee+ features a specialized hardware accelerator for AI and machine learning applications. That and other improvements to Persee, which was released in 2015, are intended to help users find new, advanced applications for 3D imaging, said the company. An Amlogic A311D processor increases performance in Persee+, noted Orbbec. The smart vision system on a chip (SoC) unit includes four ARM A73 cores and two ARM A53 cores plus neural processing unit (NPU) capability for AI inference. The system also includes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.13
May 11, 2020
…infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM; cloud-based collaboration and application providers; telecom operators providing cloud services; cloud connectivity partners; and colocation data centers. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several examples of processes that can be digitized and virtualized,” Bicknell continues. “Google has told job seekers it will conduct all interviews virtually via Google Hangouts for the foreseeable future. Corporate video conferencing is enabling both legal and medical case discussions, while telemedicine is being used to provide COVID-19 remote diagnosis and treatment. “The necessary wider move to cloud will now pose questions for…
