Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.77
January 29, 2024
…The Commission included four methods by which Amazon would gain an unfair market advantage: Delisting or not listing rival RCVs Reducing visibility of rival RVCs displayed on Amazon's online retail platform Limiting access to certain widgets (e.g. 'other products you make like') or certain commercially-attractive product labels (e.g. 'Amazon's choice' or 'Works With Alexa') Directly or indirectly raising the costs of iRobot's rivals to advertise and sell their RVCs on Amazon's marketplace. “All such foreclosure strategies could have restricted competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners, leading to higher prices, lower quality, and less innovation for consumers,” the Commission…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.76
September 01, 2019
…Institute in Worcester, MA. We spoke to him to gain insight into this year’s annual SailBot Competition. Here’s how our conversation went. Digital Engineering: Can you provide an overview of the SailBot competition, how it came to be and the intent of the program? How many participants have you had or are you expecting? Ken Stafford: The competition is oriented to boats competing in the SailBot Class (up to 2 meters in length) but smaller boats are popular due to their easier logistics. There is an Open Class (which are boats up to 4 meters in length) oriented toward non-school…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.76
June 14, 2022
…preferred format, such as Jupyter Notebooks or logz.io, to gain a better understanding of the data, debug an issue, or optimize their autonomy. Serving as the first line of defense, tech support also needs data to provide efficient responses to customers and improve the uptime of the robot. Formant provides a default visual for these personas but also allows the chance to customize or expose these visuals to their in-house tools. Data warehouses vs data lakes: why it matters Data can exist in a variety of locations; typically, they’ll live in either a data warehouse or data lake, which serve…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.74
April 18, 2021
…for factories and warehouses to innovate, optimize productivity, and gain a competitive advantage with cobots.” “Waypoint and Productive Robotics have come together with a shared vision of affordable mobile manipulation,” added Walker. “We both have ROS-native systems and can merge behaviors and the user experience. We'll be able to reduce size and cost as we integrate further.” “Manufacturers are the 'first movers' with precise machine tending,” he said. “The robot is able to fit into situations where workers already have a process. It can reach into a machine or collect parts for a tray or sampling without a huge apparatus.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.73
May 20, 2022
…robotics platform that can deliver nearly a 5X productivity gain over competing NVIDIA gaphics processing unit (GPU)-based systems, such as Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit and Jetson Nano Developer Kit using Isaac ROS SDK 4.6.1. AMD said it used the KV260 Starter Kit based on Kria K26 SOM, using Vitis Unified SW Platform 2021.2 and Kria Robotics Stack. Development time accounted for tool-chain setup with ROS 2, cross-compilation of host code, and creation of accelerators implementing two functions: doublevadd_publisher and accelerated_doublevadd_publisher. “The Kria SOM portfolio accelerates the design cycle for developers by starting at a more evolved point compared to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.72
April 17, 2018
…base business and lower costs and drive further business gains in a smart, economic, and high-quality way. As for the types of ways in which AI can be used in logistics, DHL and IBM cited various things, including: transitioning away from legacy enterprise resource planning systems to advanced analytics, increased automation, and hardware and software robotics and mobile computing; taking logistics operations redefine today’s behaviors and practices; taking operations from reactive to proactive and planning from forecast to prediction and taking processes from manual to autonomous and services from standardized to personalized On a more practical level, they also noted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.72
April 18, 2019
…6-minute supply of oxygen and a 1-minute reserve. They gain points as they progress through all stages of the competition. They earn additional points by returning the results of their mission tasks and finishing without using their oxygen reserve. The course includes a simulated field of asteroid debris—boulders from 5 to 15 in. across; an ancient stream bed with pebbles approximately 6 in. deep; and erosion ruts and crevasses of varying widths and depths. About Saint Thomas Academy’s Rover For the competition, EVT designed a rover with a four-wheel suspension system and a parallelogram design to give more ground clearance.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.66
April 30, 2019
…Logistics & White Glove Services are Impacting Shipping To gain a competitive advantage in last-mile logistics, shippers need to understand the top seven trends in last mile logistics. 1. Last Mile Logistics Gets Faster Fulfillment Fulfillment timetables are changing. Consumers want faster fulfillment, and shippers need to move more product at a faster pace. Shipments that previously required one hour to process are now being forced into three-minute intervals, if not faster times. Consequently, last mile logistics is finally in a position to become part of this push toward faster fulfillment. Among millennials, consumers are willing to pay a premium…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.65
May 05, 2023
…and defend them over time.” Early-stage startups struggle to gain capital Fady Saad discussed why he decided to start his new robotics venture capital firm Cybernetix Ventures, which provides early-stage funding for robotics companies. Fady Saad The MassRobotics co-founder said he started the business with co-founder Mark Martin because he observed that many venture capital firms were not organized or prepared to invest in early-stage startups that are looking to take their technology from a prototype to a commercial product. When investing in a robotics company, Saad noted that he looks at three key factors: market fit, viability of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.64
July 12, 2019
…relieving people of tedious tasks.” DHL has already scored gains using AI in three key areas. In one DHL operation, people used to evaluate incoming shipments to determine if extra handling is required. It was a high-speed manual process with on-the-fly decision making that was fraught with the potential for error. DHL now uses AI and computer vision to evaluate incoming shipments and determine proper handling for people on the line. Productivity has increased by as much as 14%. The accuracy of detecting critical pallet properties has also increased along with the speed of handling. Just as important, explains Ha,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.63
May 20, 2019
…the near term while planning for long term productivity gains. Companies were not fully prepared for a sudden increase in warehousing costs in 2018. Now they are trying to build agility in their supply chains through flexible assets and strategic partnerships, not only to get closer to customers but also to react quickly to changing market conditions without paying inflated rates. While pressure may drop as the business cycle turns, the structural drivers of high warehousing costs are here to stay, think the shift towards e-commerce or home delivery of nearly all consumer products and further minimum wage increases. Logistics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.63
April 04, 2022
…North and South American markets. Examples of partnerships to gain access to new markets included Murata Machinery and AGVE Group, Muratec and Cimcorp, and Addverb Technologies and Numina Group. And, while not really a consolidation, I remain impressed by the amount of private equity funds that continue to be invested in our space. Robotics reaches a tipping point Back in 2015, I invited Tom Galluzzo, the co-founder of IAM Robotics, to write an article for Supply Chain Management Review [Editor's Note: a sibling site to Robotics 24/7] on why roboticists like him were jumping into the materials handling space. The…
