Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.96
January 12, 2023
…in the electronics space and introducing innovative technologies in Japan and beyond. Ossia and Marubun have been jointly developing a wirelessly powered IoT sensor receiver that can be embedded within a wide variety of electronic devices. “It simply makes good business sense to leverage wireless power for IoT that comes in the many hundreds of thousands, like ESLs and RFIDs,” said Satoshi Fujino, senior vice president at Marubun. “Wires and batteries are so limiting that these two devices have been held back from widespread innovation, not to mention adoption. Cota Real Wireless Power makes ESLs and RFIDs truly viable and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.89
January 03, 2023
…beverage-restocking robots across 300 Family Mart convenience stores in Japan. Cobot leader Universal Robotics is using Isaac Sim for workforce development to train end operators from the cloud. NVIDIA also touted six companies that have used its Jetson edge AI platform, including Agrist for its bell pepper-harvesting robot, John Deere for its autonomous tractor, Skydio for its Scout drone, Neubility for its delivery robot, and Seoul Robotics for its self-driving car “control tower.” These companies have also received recognition with CES 2023 Innovation Awards, Talla said. NVIDIA makes more simulation tools available Also at CES, NVIDIA also announced a major…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.79
September 26, 2024
…Orbit is now available in Australia, Brazil, EU, Korea, Japan, North America and Singapore (previously US only). This is the preferred deployment option for enterprises looking to scale quickly and integrate with existing SaaS products. Cloud-based Orbit streamlines deployment because it does not require installation of a physical server and it auto-connects to Spot via Wi-Fi or LTE. It also helps users stay current with optional in-app updates and enables flexible extension hosting options outside the confines of a physical server. If the cloud isn’t for you, Orbit can still be deployed on-premise via the Site Hub. Both versions offer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.73
March 14, 2023
…deployed beverage restocking robots across 300 convenience stores in Japan. Deutsche Bahn is training AI models to handle very important but unexpected corner cases that happen rarely in the real world — like luggage falling on a train track, to improve safety. Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots. Fraunhofer is developing advanced autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) using the physically accurate and full-fidelity visualization features of Isaac Sim. Soft Robotics is harnessing NVIDIA Isaac Sim to generate synthetic data to train their robotic gripping systems to handle delicate foods like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.38
April 30, 2021
…to robotics and had a demonstration at CEATEC in Japan two years ago with different manipulators. Most actual applications that our customers care about can't be solved through trial and error.” “Another type of machine learning is learning from demonstration,” he explained. “This is where cobots come in. In the future, the fastest, most natural way to teach robots to do something is kinesthetic. The challenge is the ability to generalize. Replicating one example is easy, but what if the parts are in different positions?” “We'd like to use AI to intepret rich sensor signals and enable the robot to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.18
July 09, 2021
…a tsunami were to once again interrupt supply in Japan, a supplier in Northern Italy, India, Mexico or the U.S. may be able to pick up the slack. In addition to strategic supply actions like those listed above, the top three actions being contemplated by respondents to potential future disruptions include partnering with vendors to better understand technology applications and business benefits (48%), piloting new technologies (42%), and increasing investments and budgets for innovative technologies (39%). Respondents also recognized that the supply chain of the future calls not just for the adoption of innovative technologies, but also for a different…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.12
September 01, 2019
…in 2018, Rakuten is the largest e-commerce company in Japan and the third-largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide. It is a global e-business powerhouse providing “a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports.” Rakuten currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe and the Americas. Rakuten began order fulfillment and delivery services to Rakuten Ichiba merchants in August 2012, followed by the acquisition of the French 3PL Alpha Direct Services in November 2012. The next year, 2013, Rakuten acquired the Webgistix Corp., a then 12-year-old company…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.56
December 02, 2019
…Nuro just got a $940 million in financing from Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund and has partnered with Kroger to deliver the groceries and with Domino’s to deliver the pizzas. KiwiBot is providing similar services for the university campus. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were two of the earliest colleges to welcome the food delivery robots, KiwiBot. Drones as enablers for the future of logistics Companies such as DHL and Amazon are testing drones for last mile delivery. DHL has already tested Parcelcopter, a Microdrones md4-1000 UAV to deliver a package. Boeing has…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.23
October 19, 2021
…sales offices or production facilities in South America, Russia, Japan, and Hong Kong, to name a few. The European DC serves many of HARTING’s European customers and replenishes other warehouses. Prior to building the new facility, HARTING operated from a 30-year-old facility that was no longer able to keep pace with the company’s growth or customer requirements. “We were out of space and couldn’t get the throughput we needed,” said Meyer. “Our aging automated systems required more maintenance, and our 20-year-old warehouse management system [WMS] was no longer stable.” Just as important, the 30-year-old systems were not designed for item-handling,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.97
February 08, 2021
…and other Asian key markets such as Korea and Japan, which came relatively well through the pandemic due to stringent lockdowns from the very start of 2020, the Asia Pacific region is expected to sustain a relatively more stable economic growth than other regions and to keep express growth moving at pace over the forecast period. Europe’s Express market is set to grow faster than pre-pandemic expectations, with a predicted 2020-2024 CAGR of 5.4%. One reason is that Europe, and especially Germany, have undergone a significant push in terms of digitization through the crisis and are expected to maintain this…
