Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider Pudu Robotics recently announced the launch of its first robot designed expressly for industrial applications - the PUDU T300, which debuted at Hannover Messe 2024. PUDU said its T300 features maneuverability with an ability to navigate efficiently through narrow passageways commonly found in industrial facilities. The PUDU T300 also includes “map-and-go” functionality that allows for immediate use without network connectivity. The company said manufacturers worldwide are struggling to adapt to changing market demands and production variability. As a result, creating more agile, responsive and flexible production lines has become crucial. The PUDU T300 is specifically…
Robot market platform HowToRobot and independent advisors Gain & Co recently announced a merger to form a global automation market platform and vendor-independent advisory company that can support businesses with every aspect of their automation journey. United under HowToRobot’s name, the company also announced an investment from Sagitta Ventures, which will be taking a seat on the board. Together, the investment and merger will help fuel HowToRobot’s global growth, said the company. With the merger, Søren Peters, former CEO of HowToRobot, and Søren Pap-Tolstrup, former CEO of Gain & Co, will serve as co-CEOs. “Businesses need automation and robotics like…
Landscaping crews operate on the principle of efficiency. But monotonous mowing tasks take away from time that they can spend performing detail tasks, such as edging and trimming or managing planters. Scythe Robotics developed its autonomous commercial mower, the M.52, to help landscapers improve their operational efficiency. With support from Scythe’s engineers, implementation team, and customer support services, landscapers can automate mowing large areas, gaining back time to complete detail work. From machine testing to customer deployment training Kali Hamilton, field robotics engineer at Scythe, said field service is primarily focused on the mechanical and electrical health of M.52 robots,…
Vention, the Montreal-based company behind the cloud-based Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP), recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring industrial automation technology to small and medium manufacturers by using NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to advance cloud robotics. This announcement made during COMPUTEX 2024 in Taiwan, marks a year of collaborative efforts from Vention to leverage artificial intelligence to simplify industrial automation and robotic projects, from the design of equipment up to their operations. Vention MAP looks to use NVIDIA AI to simplify UX Vention's cloud-first MAP is inherently AI-enabled, drawing on a proprietary dataset of several hundred thousand robot…
Unitree Robotics recently introduced its latest humanoid robot, the Unitree G1 Humanoid agent, AI avatar. The robot comes in two models, G1 and G1 EDU, and is significantly smaller than its other humanoid robot, the H1. G1 humanoid specs The G1 is about 127 centimeters tall and weighs about 35 kilograms. It has flexibility beyond ordinary people and unlocks unlimited movement potential, according to the company. The walking speed of G1 is about 2m/s. It has a large joint movement space, with 23-43 joints, and the maximum joint torque can reach 120N.m. G1 can perform high-load dynamic movements, such as…
At COMPUTEX in Taiwan, NVIDIA announced that major Taiwanese electronics makers are using the company’s technologies to transform their factories into more autonomous facilities with a new reference workflow. The workflow combines NVIDIA Metropolis vision AI, NVIDIA Omniverse physically based rendering and simulation and NVIDIA Isaac AI robot development and deployment. By using the workflow to build digital twins for real-time simulation of different factory layouts, manufacturers can optimize space, processes and efficiency without costly physical changes. The news came from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote demo at COMPUTEX 2024. Electronics manufacturers adopt NVIDIA technology to build robotic…
RGo Robotics, a provider of AI-powered, location-aware artificial perception platform, recently announced the integration of NVIDIA Isaac robotics technologies into RGo Robotics platforms to help advance AI-powered automation. The companies made the announcement at COMPUTEX in Taipei. Perception Engine & NVIDIA integration RGo's Perception Engine, a deployed vision and AI offering for localization, obstacle detection and scene understanding, will integrate NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor technologies to provide advanced vison capabilities to AI-based autonomous mobile robots. This integrated software stack is compatible with the newly released NVIDIA Nova Orin Developer Kit. Using RGo's perception offering with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, running on NVIDIA…
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM) recently publicly released its Future of Work study. The study, previously issued to ARM Institute members, details how advanced technologies - chiefly robotics, automation, and AI - are changing the nature of manufacturing careers, as well as actions the institute expects will be needed to prepare the U.S. workforce for these changes. Manufacturing, and the development of technology to improve manufacturing, have been a source of American prosperity and national security for over a century. The introduction of disruptive technologies, which can address critical areas of need in manufacturing, are also changing the…
