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 4.53
May 11, 2021
…20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that “ROS 2 Foxy is the most secure and reliable ROS distribution to date for production robotics application development.” While AWS RoboMaker no longer supports ROS Kinetic, its support of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy for simulation and development does include Navigation2 (Nav2). Nav2 “is the second generation of the ROS Navigation software stack, enabling robots to move autonomously from Point A to B,” wrote Matthew Hansen, principal solutions architect at AWS Robotics, in a blog post last week. “Nav2 includes new features not previously available in ROS that help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.03
April 30, 2021
…on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Amazon AWS RoboMaker starting in the second half of 2021. It added that it anticipates more robot applications incorporating the cloud and artificial intelligence to be deployed. To familiarize users to ROS 2 and expose its new features to operators, Doosan said it will supply tutorial packages on creating robot functions via its partner supporting site, Doosan Robot LAB. Video tutorials on ROS application will also be available on the site. Doosan Robotics has been supporting ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic since 2019, and additionally distributed the ROS Noetic package in March…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.39
November 05, 2020
…that combines multiphysics solvers with scalable cloud supercomputers from AWS and Google Cloud. According to the company, OnScale Solve does not require any installation and can be accessed via a secure web-based connection to any web browser. The solution features multiphysics solvers, automation of tasks such as CAD repair and meshing, scalable cloud supercomputer infrastructure, intuitive UI/UX and integrated workflows, and integration with Jupyter notebooks and Cloud AI tools. Subscribers can open a Free Private account that includes 500 core-hours per year. Users can perform mechanical, thermal, and coupled thermal-mechanical analysis. The company plans to develop dynamic mechanical, nonlinear mechanics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.26
March 01, 2020
…cloud. We are also seeing companies such as Citrix, AWS and Microsoft Azure offer cloud-based desktops.” The shift from on-premises desktop to virtual machines suggests the security risks, too, have migrated to the cloud. But human behavior, as it turns out, remains a bigger security risk than the holes in the company firewall and the cloud. A Famous IP Theft Case One of the most high-profile IP theft cases in the CAD industry occurred in 2002, when the source code of a pre- release version of SolidWorks was stolen. The culprit, Shekhar Verma, was a former employee of an outsourced…
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 0.49
October 09, 2019
…to bring AI into industrial manufacturing. “Major cloud players, AWS and Microsoft, have established a wide range of partnerships with industrial AI development platform vendors, AI software vendors, and system integrators to provide an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge solution to enhance operational efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and optimize resource consumption in factories,” said Lian Jye Su, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. In China, the Chinese government has listed 10 key industrial manufacturing segments under Made in China in 2025, and AI is a strategic component of the Information Technology segment. Since 2015, the government has been encouraging provincial and local government, public agencies,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
August 20, 2019
…of more than 100,000 robots, which operate using the AWS cloud, to fulfill customer orders. These robots complement human capability to “help make us smarter,” according to Tye Brady, Amazon robotics chief technologist. “Our three principles – lower prices, wider selection, and enhanced customer experience – will not scale up by manual labor only, they keep accelerating and growing only if we augment and supplement human intelligence with machine intelligence” Brady believes we can accomplish this with collaborative robots “who work in concert with our associates.” Sometimes that means extending human activities with robotics. Other times, that means delegating separate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.57
August 16, 2019
…advanced functionality of JetBot ROS (Robot Operating System) and AWS RoboMaker, with AWS IoT Greengrass pre-installed, SparkFun’s JetBot AI Kit is the only kit currently on the market ready to move beyond the standard JetBot examples. Many other popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe and MXNet are supported, and Jetson Nano is capable of running multiple neural networks in parallel to process data and drive action. Each SparkFun JetBot AI Kit includes the following: NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit; Robot Platform Chassis and all Prototyping Electronics; 64GB MicroSD card—pre-flashed with the JetBot Image; 145 Field of View, wide-angle camera…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.06
March 14, 2019
…Amazon launched the platform known as Amazon Web Services (AWS) internally in 2002. It officially launched to the world in 2006. It’s now the leader in the cloud infrastructure industry, beating out market pillars, like IBM and Microsoft. According to AWS CEO, Andy Jassy, AWS was born from out of internal needs. Then they realized they could develop it into a real service company. AWS was the first cloud infrastructure as a service, and competitors like Microsoft, IBM, and Google took years to respond. This is what allowed Amazon to capture the market share. They created a service in response…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.08
March 11, 2019
…Evans. “Instead, just as companies rely on services like AWS rather than building and managing their own server racks, anyone can leverage Fictiv’s platform and global network to streamline the product development and production process, providing the flexibility to win in today’s competitive global market.” Fictiv has targeted the automotive, medical, robotics, aerospace and consumer electronics industries. Key features and benefits of the Fictiv platform include: 3D printing, CNC, urethane casting and injection molding with instant pricing available online; Finishing and post-processing services; Automatic design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback; Online order tracking for visibility on production and shipment status; Vetted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.20
June 25, 2018
…in even shorter turnaround times.” Australia-owned Advanced Warehouse Solutions (AWS) is one of the biggest providers of Australian Made storage equipment. AWS has installed the largest flow racking system ever built in Australia. Their solutions are designed to work with all types of automated solutions such as the Butler robotics system from GreyOrange. In the global logistics and warehouse automation market for robots, significant growth is expected in the years 2018 to 2022, with a CAGR of more than 11 percent. Innovations in the supply chain will be a key differentiator for businesses in Australia to stay competitive. The robotics…
