Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.09
November 07, 2023
…consuming less energy. Major market players are also focused on delivering advanced and comprehensive designs for various robotic solutions. Qualcomm, for instance, introduced the world's first 5G and artificial intelligence-based platform, designed for business-to-business and industrial service applications.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.45
April 14, 2022
…Investment Ltd. led Haomo.AI's Series A+ round, with participation by existing investor Shoucheng Holdings Ltd. Past investors include Meituan, Qualcomm Ventures, and GL Ventures. “Haomo is the most promising autonomous driving company in China, with proprietary core technologies,” said Liu Jian, chairman of Bank of China Group Investment, the direct investment arm of state-owned financial conglomerate Bank of China. “We expect the company, guided by its windmill strategy, to realize a virtuous circle of data, technology, and products through mass production and shipment and establishment of the MANA data intelligence system,” Liu added. Since the completion of this Series A+…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.04
November 18, 2021
…spaces. The Dronut X1 pilot assist – powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon – is designed to make flying easier and safer, allowing the operator to focus on collecting the data they need instead of manually managing the drone’s flight. It can operate around sensitive equipment and in low-light conditions. Dronut goes where no drone has gone before For industrial and commercial applications, the Dronut X1 now enables unmanned inspections of dangerous and confined spaces where no drone or robot could previously go, such as tanks, pressure vessels, and crawl spaces, said Cleo Robotics. The Dronut X1 is a portable, rugged and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.79
November 02, 2021
…N.Y.; and Boulder, Colo. Fotokite is backed by MSA Safety Inc., Swisscanto Invest, Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital, Sony Corp., Qualcomm Ventures, and 360 Capital Partners. For information on pricing and availability, contact [email protected] or visit https://www.axon.com/products/axon-air/fotokite.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.75
July 28, 2021
…company's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Qualcomm, and Telefonica. Cyngn described its DriveMod flagship product as “an end-to-end autonomy solution that can be flexibly deployed on multiple vehicle types in various environments.” It delivers intelligent analytics, artificial intelligence, advanced safety features, and self-driving capabilities for industrial vehicles. DriveMod is vehicle-agnostic, working across all kinds of industrial vehicles, regardless of age, vehicle type, or manufacturer, claimed Cyngn. The technology can allow fleets of all shapes and sizes to drive autonomously via a simple retrofit or by being embedded directly into original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vehicles at assembly, it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.04
March 14, 2022
…the Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge), outperforming teams from MIT, Qualcomm, Amazon, and others. ENOT has raised unspecified seed funding from New Nordic Venture. ENOT intends to cut computing costs ENOT.ai said its framework takes a trained neural network as input, after which it selects the sub-network with the lowest latency to ensure no accuracy degradation. The company said its neural architecture selection technology can achieve optimization ratios resulting in acceleration up to 20x and compression up to 25x. This can outperform other methods and reduce total hardware computing resource costs by as much as 70%, it claimed. ENOT explained that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.00
July 18, 2022
…of California, Berkeley. He was a co-founder of Snaptracs, Qualcomm’s consumer electronics subsidiary. Pinn oversaw the successful sale of the business, which led to a merger with Whistle and a $117 million acquisition by Mars. David Pinn. Source: LinkedIn Prior to joining Brain Corp, Pinn was head of finance for Antenna79, a technology startup backed by L Catterton, where he helped raise $94.9 million in private equity funding. Since joining Brain Corp in 2017, Pinn has held a variety of executive positions including chief strategy officer, and most recently, chief financial officer. In these roles, he helped lead Brain Corp’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.85
April 12, 2023
…“hardware zoo” at CES included systems from Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA—all running the same code, said Nicholson. “Our SDK [software development kit] makes it all possible to tune the algorithms, port them, and test them on low-cost sensors,” he added. Vision, lidar, and 'living, breathing' digital twins Where does SLAMcore fall in the ongoing tug of war between lidar and vision systems? “We're not anti-lidar, but we're vision-first,” Nicholson replied. “Lidar will never be as affordable as a CMOS [complementary metal-oxide semiconductor] sensor, but we'll integrate with it. In the warehouse, if you've put down magnetic strips, you can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.39
July 23, 2021
…he has also held senior roles at Amazon and Qualcomm. Robotics 24/7 spoke with Thomason about his experience, his views on autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and his plans for Brain Corp. You've been a software leader at tech companies like Uber ATG, Oculus, and Qualcomm. What brought you to Brain Corp? Thomason: While it seems like they're all different, the big commonality is that there's a lot of systems software. While artificial intelligence and deep learning are obviously components, there's a lot of other software—Web portals, interactions, real-time pipes, updates—with remarkable parallels in my 30 years in the industry. So…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.89
March 11, 2024
…series, WT6400 and WT5400 are all powered by the Qualcomm 4490 octa-core processor which provides a longer lifecycle and more processing power. It can run multiple applications including apps powered by augmented reality and AI, apps designed for voice and line of business as well as simple ‘green screen’ legacy apps. Beyond its new wearables and mobile computers, Zebra will also showcase its recently launched MC9400 series, the ultra-rugged mobile computer designed to enhance workflow efficiency and device security across the retail, warehouse, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics industries. The company will unveil enhancements to the Fetch100 autonomous mobile robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.87
January 19, 2023
…a founding member of ROBO Global’s advisory board and Qualcomm chair of robotics at the University of California San Diego, has joined the company as a board advisor. Outrider plans to continue growth Since announcing its Series B funding in 2020, Outrider said it has performed tens of thousands of fully autonomous trailer moves at customer sites and its Advanced Testing Facility. It claimed that its test site was the first in the world dedicated to yard automation. Fast Company recognized Outrider as a top 10 company in the logistics category in its 2022 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list. Outrider…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.05
May 02, 2021
…performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity's development. AeroVironment, Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Space in designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, and it will be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). NASA said that subsequent missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed…
