Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.19
October 13, 2021
…for rapid integration of spatial awareness tools, obstacle identification, navigation systems, cameras, lidar sensors, and more. For over a decade, Cogniteam has provided software to help companies solve complex problems with their hardware. Now, as hardware engineers develop the physical aspects of the robots, they can upload the blueprints into Nimbus and allow software teams to program the robot in a simulated environment. “By allowing hardware and software teams to work in tandem, instead of having one team wait for the other, teams can cut the time needed to test new versions in the field and bring their product to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.62
October 13, 2021
…Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, compared Robotic Magnetic Navigation (RMN)-guided cardiac ablation with manual radiofrequency (RF) ablation and manual cryoablation. The study’s primary endpoint was long-term freedom from arrhythmia recurrence, with a mean follow-up time of 5.5 years. AV(N)RTs cause abnormally fast heartbeats and are the most common supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (SVT) in children without structural heart disease. Left untreated, frequent episodes may weaken the heart and lead to heart failure, said Stereotaxis. The median age of patients in the study was 14 years at the time of treatment. Patients treated using RMN had 94.4% freedom from arrhythmia recurrence through…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.03
October 12, 2021
…real-time safety alerts for human-driven vehicles, and manages AMR navigation and fleets. With MAESTRO, customers can gain a real-time “panoptic view” of their floors to more effectively and safely coordinate their operations, said 634AI. The partnership is the debut of Neve Ilan, Israel-based 634AI’s technology in the U.S. market. The company will provide access to AMR fleet data, such as vehicle type and battery charge level. 634AI said the collaboration supports its vision of providing a robot- and space-agnostic system for the holistic management of work floors. “InOrbit’s agnostic approach to the management of heterogeneous fleets of autonomous mobile robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.56
October 05, 2021
…technology. This ensures 360-degree vision for precise and safe navigation and operations, claimed MiR. The MiR1350 is designed to comply with the industry’s latest safety standards, including ISO 3691-4 and ANSI/RIA R15.08-1-2020. Along with the MiR600 is the market’s first Ingress Protection52-rated AMR. The robot's components are protected against dust and water drops, ensuring an high performance level and reliable function at the end of production lines and in warehouses, said MiR. Partnership opens up AMRs for new applications CSi palletising, which successfully demonstrated its Taros offering built on the MIR1350 at Fachpack 2021 in Germany last week, has various…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.55
October 04, 2021
…to. A single piece of software and a single-source navigation stack will be easier to manage.” Locus has opened its new European headquarters in Amsterdam. Source: Locus Robotics Robots serve seasonal, return needs Not only is there a large total addressable market for logistics automation, but retailers also need robots for seasonal demand and growing returns, said Faulk. “There's a huge global opportunity that's unapped,” he said. “There are 100,000 warehouses and 20 billion sq. ft. to be automated over the next five to 10 years, and about 3 billion sq. ft. of new space being built over the next…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.26
September 27, 2021
…teams that developed a wide variety of mapping and navigation systems. They were applied and tested in realistic field environments such as human-made tunnels, urban underground settings, and caves. The final scores were as follows: 23: CERBERUS (CollaborativE walking & flying RoBots for autonomous ExploRation in Underground Settings), the DARPA-funded winner of the first-place prize 23: CSIRO Data61, which won DARPA-funded winner of the $1,000,000 second-place prize 18: MARBLE (Multi-agent Autonomy with Radar-Based Localization for Exploration), winner of the $500,000 third-place prize 17: Explorer, DARPA-funded 13: CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Resilient Robots), DARPA-funded 7: CTU-CRAS-NORLAB (Czech Technical University in Prague…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.80
September 27, 2021
…safety. How is this tied to regulatory compliance and navigation? Theobald: Our software and robots comply with American National Standards Institute [ANSI] B56.5 and Robotics Industries Association [RIA/A3] R15.08 safety standards. The update enables more than 75% improvement in obstacle avoidance, without compromising on safety. With Free Space Reasoning, our next generation of navigation technology optimizes for free space without needing a line or path drawn for it. The real world is chaotic. Robots can “thread the needle” and keep moving through tight spaces as quickly as safety allows. How does the ability Mark 3 software update affect users of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.67
September 24, 2021
…locations Pudu Robotics has developed technologies for positioning and navigation, motion control, multi-machine scheduling, and obstacle avoidance. It said it has submitted 600 patent applications, more than 60% of which are for new inventions. The company added that its understanding of user needs have enabled it to provide robots for a wide range of environments. Pudu's mobile robots are working in supermarkets, government offices, airports, and high-speed train stations. These include the PuduBot delivery robot, the BellaBot premium delivery robot, and the HolaBot delivery robot with paging and notification features. Pudu also offers the Puductor 2 disinfection robot, the KettyBot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.19
September 23, 2021
…functionality for root-cause analysis, integrations, real-time teleoperation, and other navigation, as well as the recently launched Time Capsule.” InOrbit robot dashboard—Free Edition. Source: InOrbit Time Capsule delivers actionable data Time Capsule is a software-as-a-service feature that gives robot users the ability to “turn back time” to see where failures occurred. “Before Time Capsule, users had to download data, put it into a simulation, and try to glean information from it. You really needed a Ph.D. in robotics,” said Pestoni. “For people in production, this has become critical at scale. They need to understand incidents in the real world. If they…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.80
September 22, 2021
…developer community. Some examples of this are the ROS2 Navigation stack and the MoveIt Motion Planning Framework. These examples are available today and can be found in the Isaac Sim documentation. Here are examples of ROS in Isaac Sim: ROS April Tag ROS stereo camera ROS navigation ROS TurtleBot 3 sample ROS manipulation and camera sample ROS services MoveIT motion-planning framework Native Python ROS usage ROS 2 navigation Functional block diagram of Isaac Sim on Omniverse showing three inputs to the simulator: the robot model, environment model, and 3D assets. The simulator can be controlled from both ROS and python.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.21
September 20, 2021
…central point of what we've developed in our software stack—navigation in the dynamic warehouse—is to allow LocusBots to work near humans with no more risk than bumping into another human.” “Robots are great, and we think ours is better than anything else out there, but we have to be honest about the technology that's affordable for the applications we're going after,” Walker added. “We have to recognize that robots have limits and still need help. If we think about the businesses that can't find labor, it only makes sense to make the robots easier to be helped by the people…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.15
September 16, 2021
…ft. for efficient, high-density storage. It uses laser scanner navigation and robust software to increase warehouse throughput by up to five times with a two-minute response time for all SKUs, said the company. The goods-to-person system is designed to improve working conditions and foster more sustainable warehouse productivity by reducing highly repetitive, physically intensive tasks like walking, lifting, and bending. Exotec, which has served the order-fulfillment industry in Europe and Japan, is continuing to grow its presence in the U.S. market. Customers including Gap Inc., Ariat International, and Comoto Holdings have recently adopted the Skypod system. The company raised $90…
