Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.40
September 20, 2022
…manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “It’s available now on AWS RoboMaker, a cloud-based simulation service for robotics development and testing,” he said. “And, developers can download it from NVIDIA NGC and deploy it to any public cloud.” Using Isaac Sim in the cloud, roboticists will be able to generate large datasets 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.39
January 08, 2023
…simulation and validation technology and the onboard supercomputer, and AWS provided cloud computing and data analytics. The initial 31 university teams used open-source software including the Robot Operating System, or ROS 2. PoliMOVE pulls ahead in close contest Yesterday's challenge required racecars to take turns passing one another as leader/defender and follower/passer/attacker for the first time at speeds of 80, 115, and 155 mph (128.7, 185, and 249.4 kph). Six of the nine teams qualified for the head-to-head competition Saturday. In the run leading into the final race, the car from MIT-PITT-RW team stopped for software and safety reasons, allowing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
December 10, 2021
…Support for new companies also includes a recently announced AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator. Festo and MassRobotics selected the first four companies for the Healthcare Robotics Catalyst. In addition, Mitsubishi Electric and MassRobotics continued their Startup Engagement Program. Cowen Inc., a full-service investment bank and a MassRobotics partner, supported a market study around human augmentation for logistics. MassRobotics' Fady Saad (far left) with attendees at the partner event. Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics offers events to help community In 2021, MassRobotics hosted 16 events, including a two-day workship on how robotics startups can raise funding, said Saad. The collective also hosted two Demo…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
October 04, 2021
…Nvidia GPUs, Omniverse, etc.), data, cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS), new hardware and advanced engineering. Many robotics startup companies are capitalizing on this “super evolution” of technology to build more intelligent and more capable machines. In parallel, there’s another phenomenon happening in the world: a “convergence of technologies.” It means that engineers are coming up with different silver bullets — engineering different algorithms, different hardware architectures, different methods, etc. — to solve the same fundamental problems. The Perl programming language motto, “there’s more than one way to do it,” perfectly captures what is happening in the robotics space. In contrast,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.34
May 23, 2021
…data analytics. One is to be a Google or AWS that has shown performance in vertical after vertical, or you can control the tools that gather the data, such as autonomous drones. By optimizing the flight path, you can gather quality, complete, and frequent data.” Regulations and full autonomy While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration now issues Part 107 waivers for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights, such exemptions took a while to create, slowing the growth of the drone industry. “Right now, the technology is more advanced than regulations allow,” Rabkin said. “We still have two people right now—a pilot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.29
June 14, 2022
…Most robotics companies will use a specific cloud provider (AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc.) and prefer to store their data in data lakes within those providers. Storing data within a data lake is also preferable because it is much cheaper than storing it in a more structured data warehouse. This allows for more affordable storage of data so that personas can load only the data they need for analytics purposes into a more expensive data warehouse. Data finally goes where it needs to go To solve issues quickly and hold up against tough competition in the robotics industry, full access…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.28
May 04, 2023
…he said. “A customer could even run Azure or AWS cloud-based tools to analyze imagery locally on the box versus sending tens of thousands of gigabytes of data.” “We hope that the PowerPad Pro can act as a platform for other people to run their software on, such as data analytics and mission planning across a bunch of drones,” added Waters. “We hope we can host and help expand their markets and operations in the field.” Multiple industries could benefit from new tech In its press release, WiBotic said that PowerPad Pro's combination of wireless data transfer and autonomous charging…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.28
March 08, 2022
…access to the body much in the way that AWS (Amazon Web Services) has done for web applications and digital applications,” he added. Robison noted that the FDA is aligned with the company’s vision because they’ve already provided regulatory guidance work concerning software as a medical device. Building hardware is much more expensive than developing software, he said. He estimated that on average it takes six years and $30 million to bring a medical device to market. “If you can bring that to market at software speeds and software costs, we can have this real explosion of new and innovative…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
June 15, 2021
…work superbly across the technology industry, from Stripe to AWS, and we believe that our Usage-Based Rental model at Scythe is similar. By billing per acre mowed, our customers are able to more accurately predict their maintenance costs for properties and acquire machines at low or zero upfront cost, while Scythe has the benefit of a steady recurring revenue stream and the ability to upgrade machines in the field without being forced to support legacy machines. It’s a win-win for everyone. How much training will facilities managers or operators need to set up the mower, or is that covered under…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
March 01, 2020
…comfortable using public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and others. Most software providers that offer cloud options also typically provide some flexibility for customers who either won’t or can’t (due to regulatory requirements) move to a fully public cloud infrastructure. According to Stucker, early adopters in the cloud space have focused on private clouds, but that is slowly shifting to public cloud infrastructures. “These installed cloud architectures can become obsolete quickly,” Stucker says. “Leasing compute power makes more sense for companies than buying hardware and hiring a team to manage it.” Goel, meanwhile, thinks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.20
June 17, 2022
…are looking at using software from Amazon Web Services (AWS) called RoboRunner for this purpose. Other Automate exhibits of interest SVT Robotics had a sizeable booth at Automate. The vendor, which offers a software platform to speed and simplify integration of robotics solutions with host systems like a warehouse management system (WMS) or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, has drawn significant funding from investors that see industry interest in rapid integration of robotics solutions. Jim Hodson, vice president of marketing for SVT, noted it’s not just deployment speed for one system that interests companies in SVT’s SOFTBOT platform and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.14
August 27, 2024
…can't just cheat a bit and spin up another AWS core.” The overall challenge Slamcore needed to address was how to deliver a workable visual SLAM for real-world industry beyond proof-of-concept. And, it had to perform on hardware at a reasonable cost. Off-the-shelf hardware keeps costs low, deployments fast Implementing vision-based navigation systems requires delivering both software and accompanying hardware. But building custom sensors can drive up the cost significantly. “We've got a firm belief that the only way robotics are going to scale is if we use hardware which is readily available,” Nicholson said. Slamcore turned to the consumer…
