Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.28
July 23, 2022
…Things (IoT) and third-party systems for years, such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and IFTTT. Curiosity to get a birthday celebration “For us, this is a way to pay homage to the great engineering work of NASA, and that of our extensive team of robotic experts, by letting our robotic mowers celebrate a fellow robot,” noted Björn Mannefred, robotics software manager at Husqvarna. “Nobody should have to sing 'Happy Birthday' to themselves, right?” Owners of the 405X, 415X and 435X AWD Automower models that have the latest firmware installed will be notified about the update through the Husqvarna Automower Connect…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.90
July 18, 2022
…development investment today. We recently announced our move to Google Cloud, which will support more mobile experience, data collection, and more advanced inventory analytics. With Sam's Club, we have more scale than any other robotics company on the planet, and our intention is to build on that scale. Is interoperability among robots from multiple vendors a concern in terms of fleet management? Pinn: Commercial environments are different from industrial environments, where one can do a greenfield deployment or have more control. Factories and warehouses can mix and match and create proprietary integrations. Brain's retail partners value enterprise-grade turnkey solutions. Any…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.16
July 05, 2022
…with our team of engineering and operations leaders from Google, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Precision Castparts, IPG Photonics, Faro Technologies, Schlumberger, Alcoa, [and] Autodesk, among others, enable our customers to innovate, grow, and deliver sustainable impact faster.” “One reason 3-D printing is fundamentally different is that it allows designers and engineers to iterate more quickly, and to, in the near future, produce parts on demand in large quantities without fixed upfront investment,” said John Hart at MIT. Credit: M. Scott Brauer, MIT News VulcanForms invests in new sites, workers VulcanForms said its new Devens facility, “VulcanOne,” will be “the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.82
July 05, 2022
…expand pilot Alphabet Inc. unit Waymo began as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has been developing autonomous driving technology for more than a decade with the goal of improving road safety. The Waymo Driver powers the Waymo One autonomous ride-haling service and the Waymo Via Class 8 commercial trucking and local delivery service. Waymo said its systems have driven more than 20 million miles on public roads across more than 13 U.S. states, as well as over 20 billion miles in simulation. Last month, Waymo Via partnered with sometime rival Uber Freight to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.89
July 01, 2022
…it plans to combine its supply chain expertise with Google Cloud's artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The Atlanta-based company said its partnership will bolster supply chain resilience and deliver go-to-market systems. “This partnership is a continuation of our invaluable collaboration with the Google Cloud team, whose keen interest in helping us build and test the next generation of warehouse management solutions makes this alliance a perfect match for our growth strategy,” stated Dee Cusack, chief technology officer of Dematic. “Through this partnership, we are helping our customers advance their positions in the industry.” Dematic designs, builds, and supports intelligent…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.32
June 14, 2022
…They also need to search through BI dashboards or excel/Google sheets so they can further dive into details. Some of the most obvious personas that need access to data are data scientists, developers, and roboticists. These roles typically want data within their tool in their 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.90
June 08, 2022
Brain Corp. last week announced that it will adopt Google Cloud as the core technical infrastructure for the management of its fleet of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs. “With the scale and speed of growth of AMRs now powered by BrainOS, it’s essential that we have the most powerful technology infrastructure underpinning it,” said Jon Thomason, chief technical officer at Brain Corp. “Using the Google Cloud Platform enables us to deliver an elevated experience to our customers, providing a mobile-first platform with near real-time data availability and data security at its core. It also provides the tools and rich integration…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.31
May 16, 2022
…to any tool they utilize, including Tableau, Jupyter Notebooks, Google Data Studio, Snowflake, and Grafana, to name a few. Customizability No enterprise is alike and each company will have unique needs that won’t entirely be suited by every software, out of the box. For example, a company using robots for inspection will obviously have different needs than one focused primarily on warehouse automation. Even within the inspection use case, specific data and operational requirements can vary depending on the asset a company is inspecting. With software being such a critical component for robotics companies, enterprise teams need a better solution…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.08
May 13, 2022
…of robotics technology, along with tech companies such as Google, NVIDIA, and Intel. New-age AV startups such as Zoox, AutoX, and Optimus Ride have attracted huge investments. In addition, as AV companies grow to meet the challenge of human-robot collaboration at the level required to bring self-driving vehicles to market, the horizon for leveraging these solutions for other robotics applications could expand. There has been a lot of interest in delivery and disinfection systems during the pandemic, but are they sustainable as consumer habits shift again? Sharma: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has increased an interest in robots, drones, and AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.06
May 09, 2022
…and leadership team,” said Tal Slobodkin, managing partner at StageOne. RGo's leadership team has experience from Intel RealSense, iRobot, Google, Samsung, and others. “As the use of robotics continues to exponentially grow across industries, RGo’s solution is a game-changer,” said Nilanjana Bhowmik, co-founder and general partner at Converge. “Manufacturers will be able to offer more intelligent mobile robots and accelerate time to market without having to focus their R&D teams on this extremely complex technology area.” Looking ahead, Bousani said, “We are always working on the next levels of perception capabilities, including scene understanding, situational perception, object classification, movement prediction,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.99
April 13, 2022
…has raised another $20 million toward its development of “Google Earth for the oceans.” Founded in 2018 by Joe Wolfel and Judson Kauffman, two former U.S. Navy SEALs, Terradepth last month launched its Absolute Ocean (AO) platform, a cloud-based platform for sharing and analyzing ocean data securely. The Austin, Texas-based company uses “Buddy Drones,” autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), to collect data at depths of 6,000 m (1,685 ft.) that it provides as a service for marine exploration and decision making. “Terradepth’s unique unmanned submersible technology will enable cost-effective, detailed data-capture that, when paired with big data analytics and machine learning,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.87
April 12, 2022
…robot maker Boston Dynamics, which it had acquired from Google (now part of Alphabet) in 2017, to Hyundai Motor Group. Xavier Lacherade, general manager of SBRE, will continue to lead the company, renamed Aldebaran under URG. “We know URG as a strategic partner in sales, services, and software development,” said Lacherade. “I am firmly convinced that the short management paths, which are also characterized by the German-French friendship, will inspire the work on both sides of the Rhine and lead us to new successes in the near future.” SBRE will aquire a minority stake in URG, and the two companies…
