Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.68
April 14, 2023
…robot platforms, better sensing, better computing, and better actuation capabilities, then there are going to resemble the agility and perception of humans more and more. I think we we're going to just end up having better collaborators and robots of the future.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.68
June 20, 2024
…develop the technology, sort out legality, and change public perceptions. “That's how we thought, ‘Where can these autonomous systems help?’ Vijay said. “And we focused around the delivery space, which was not so crowded. But, there were whitespaces because most of the delivery robots are heavily dependent on GPS positions and doing outdoors, they're small, they're modular. So that's how we started doing delivery robotics as a mainstream business.” Vijay said labor shortages and rising hourly wages make goods-to-person deliveries a good candidate for automation. Technology presents an opportunity to alleviate the impacts of labor challenges on businesses, allowing human…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.39
August 19, 2024
…pallets are located. Compared to human vision and intuitive perception, which can seamlessly locate objects, machine vision requires more discreet steps. ”What the computer gets is just a digital sampling of the space,” Panzarella said. “It is the job of the software algorithms processing the sensor data to precisely localize the pallet in real-time.” Cameras and sensors provide context Seegrid uses a variety of cameras lidar, and other sensors to gather information about the environment enabling the autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to accurately pick, transport, and place pallets. To facilitate feedback to its pallet manipulation stack, Panzarella said Seegrid uses…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.35
September 20, 2022
…from physically accurate sensor simulations to train artificial intelligence-based perception models, said NVIDIA. The synthetic data these simulations generate can improve the model performance and provide training data that often can’t be collected in the real world, it said. Developers can now test an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) in batches of parallel simulations that exercise its software stack in numerous environments and across varying conditions to ensure that they perform as designed. Continuous testing and continuous delivery, or CI/CD, of the evolving software stack is a compute-intensive component of successful robotics deployments, NVIDIA said. Isaac Sim provides for fleet management,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.95
July 09, 2018
…robotic picking. Fizyr’s software and technology focuses on the perception part of this challenge—knowing how to best grasp any object the robot sees. Fizyr works with automation providers who apply its deep learning software within their solutions. Combining shuttles with robotic piece picking is a high-growth opportunity for Fizyr, says ten Have, in part because the variety of items to be handled offers a more “controlled environment” than the nearly limitless variety of items that might move through a postal DC, where Fizyr’s technology also has been used. Coexist or lights out? John Hayes, vice president of sales and marketing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.73
May 20, 2021
…lives of differently abled people to advanced visualization and perception systems that will be key for the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. Over the past 10 years alone, robotics research expenditures at CMU have nearly doubled, and are expected to double again over the next decade. The $45 million lead grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will enable CMU to further expand its robotics research capacity with a new facility, the Robotics Innovation Center (RIC), at Hazelwood Green. The RIC, which is estimated to cost more than $90 million and will add up to 150,000 square feet of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.71
May 15, 2022
…about the market. Another hurdle appears to be a perception that robotics, like other forms of automation, are not suited to operations that involve customization versus more standard products and predictable orders. “All of our orders are special orders, so we have no way to use robotic automation,” wrote one respondent. Another added, “We would have to completely revamp our warehouse/shipping department, and many of our parts are oversize and not easily moved by robot, or the size of the robot we’d need to move them would be cost prohibitive.” And a third wrote: “All of our orders are different…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.70
November 14, 2021
…solution provider.” While technologies like machine learning and robotic perception may seem removed from the day-to-day realities at DCs, these building blocks are key to handling the level of variation needed for applications such as depalletizing, especially when sequences of single-SKU pallets and mixed-SKU pallets are run through the system. “That [flexibility to handle variation] is all within our software control and some of the things we work with the customer on to make sure we handle their pain points with this product,” said Evans. MassRobotics Interoperability Standard Helps 'De-conflict' AMRs In May, regional industry group MassRobotics released its first…
