Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.66
May 18, 2023
…Me, IAM Robotics has combined the flexibility of the swarm model with some linear control benefits of the follow-me model, claimed Link. He noted that the company was deliberate about creating a software platform that treats humans and robots as separate agents working in their own directed workflows. Unlike AMR systems where the human must follow the robot to complete picks, IAM designed Meet Me to give the worker more agency, he said, highlighting that the worker has an attached tablet on their wrist and does not rely on one placed on the robot. Link said the Lumabot is capable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.96
June 30, 2024
…scalable control and fleet management of robot teams and swarms, enabling robot teams to collaborate on tasks including formations, exploration, and foraging. Prior to her work, nearly all research was restricted to single robots or pairs, the ACM said. Her contributions to the theory and practice of multi-robot coordination showed that complex collective behaviors could be composed of basic behaviors in a principled way, bringing rigor to the then nascent discipline of distributed robotics. Her work on distributed robotics and multi-robot coordination and learning provide a formal analysis of robot coordination approaches, describing formal and practical limitations, and contributing scalable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.90
May 05, 2022
…generation of our AI-enabled mobile robotic platform harnesses mobile swarm technology, integrated buffer, and robotic picking along with advances in software and hardware performance that transform fulfillment operations at their core.” Berkshire Grey said it combines robotics and artificial intelligence to automate supply chain operations. The company said its customers include Global 100 retailers and logistics service providers. BG FLEX integrated as a modular package BG FLEX is now integrated with new, high-density buffering capabilities and enhanced goods-to-person and goods-to-robot picking stations in a single, modular package, said Berkshire Grey. With BG FLEX, retailers can easily convert any floor into…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.35
January 08, 2020
…storage and picking system designed for multi-channel intralogistics. A swarm of mobile vehicles, developed by Swisslog together with its parent company KUKA, delivers mobile racks to workstations for picking and reducing the travel path for operators. For the Hamburg-based lifestyle company HAGEL GmbH, CarryPick was the ideal solution to meet growth-related challenges. A total of 28 mobile robot units perform all transport tasks in the warehouse. The Swisslog software platform SynQ ensures that the average of 190,000 permanently stored articles quickly reach the workstations in the picking process. CarryPick for work-life balance Picking is often considered one of the most…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.29
May 09, 2021
…network of bar codes, and smart software coordinates the swarm so they do not collide or interfere with one another. The AGVs are only part of Amazon Robotics' innovation. Because of its scale, Amazon has been able to re-examine and re-engineer the entire logistics process. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce was a small but rapidly growing part of retail. Now, consumers have become accustomed to ordering everything from apparel and groceries to prepared meals, with the expectation of rapid and accurate fulfillment enabled by optimized systems. When a fulfillment center opens While brick-and-mortar stores have struggled, economic development authorities…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.13
September 28, 2023
…and mission planners to remotely command and control a swarm of uncrewed vehicles across air, land, and sea through a Web browser. By enabling real-time video feed, and telemetry, and easy access and management of captured data, Cloud Ground Control provides full remote visibility and situational awareness in search-and-rescue, emergency response, and disaster relief operations, said Advanced Navigation. Guiding visually impaired passengers—As part of the New South Wales (NSW) Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program, Advanced Navigation has developed an indoor positioning technology to support members of the visually impaired community navigate safely inside underground train stations. “UTS is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.03
March 10, 2017
A 50-pound flying robot can be lethal. As drones swarm the U.S., regulators need convincing before they give Amazon, Google, and others permission for expanded use. Bloomberg Technology has a fascinating article titled “Crashing Drones Into Test Dummies for Safety” which clearly identifies how the small- and medium-sized drones flooding the U.S. market can seriously injure or even kill someone. Researchers at Virginia Tech - home to both a Federal Aviation Administration-designated test site for unmanned aircraft systems and a world-renowned injury biomechanics group - are developing methods to evaluate the risk posed by small unmanned aircraft to anyone on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.00
November 10, 2017
…would actually mean if the skies were filled with swarms of miniature helicopters ferrying people to their next destination. Though drones will have many important uses in the future, I do not believe moving people around cities will, or should, be one of them. The dream of unmanned aerial transportation is not new. When Fritz Lang created the futuristic cityscape for his groundbreaking 1927 film, Metropolis, he filled its skies with vertiginous towers and compact flying vehicles. Then, in the early 1960s, the Hanna-Barbera animation studio produced The Jetsons, a cartoon series following the escapades of a futuristic all-American family.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.29
May 24, 2021
…to get our system flexible enough to work on swarms and ground robots as well as aerial drones. For example, our ExynPak handheld combines elements of aerial and ground-based sensing in mining environments. It provides a shared frame of reference for true collaborative autonomy. What is the most common question that you get from mining operations? Williams: This has changed rapidly over the past six to eight months. They've been burned before by people claiming full autonomy, so last year, we got asked, “Is it really autonomous? Can it really fly?” It took a while to convince them with demonstrations.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.96
June 12, 2024
…said Scythe’s mowers are not currently set up for “swarm robotics,” or deploying multiple robots in the same mow zone simultaneously. But that doesn’t mean each robot runs in isolation. She said zone sharing allows an operator to use one robot to map and set up zones while a second operator moves additional mowers into each zone to start mowing. “We're working towards more efficiency, and all the ways we can reduce touch points for operators when they're mowing with multiple robots,” Hamilton said. Scythe’s M.52 mowers back up their zones to the cloud, but an on-robot planner performs navigation…
