Japanese autonomous mobile robot (AMR) conveyance systems provider LexxPluss recently announced it is investing heavily in the U.S. to provide its conveyance systems to U.S. customers. LexxPluss announced a new U.S. demo space in June 2023 to showcase the capabilities of its flexible robotic fleets. “We are excited to launch our new demo space and see this as part of our commitment to open mechanical design and transparent technical information sharing,” said Morgan Chang, U.S. business development manager of LexxPluss. “This is something that sets LexxPluss apart, offering the highest levels of interoperability with existing systems and operations, alongside our…
AI software company Micropsi Industries recently announced MIRAI 2, the latest generation of its AI-vision software for robotic automation. MIRAI 2 builds upon the success of its previous releases and comes with five new features that, according to Micropsi, enhance manufacturers’ ability to reliably solve automation tasks with variance in position, shape, color, lighting or background. The software is available immediately and offers users greater reliability, easier and faster deployment and robot-fleet scalability compared to prior releases. Factory data helps MIRAI MIRAI 2 can operate with real factory data without the need for CAD data, controlled light, visual-feature predefinition or…
Robot manufacturer Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) recently announced the launch of its MiR1200 pallet jack autonomous mobile robot (AMR). With AI pallet detection powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the MiR1200 pallet jack uses 3D machine vision to identify, pick up, and deliver pallets. “We believe that the built-in AI detection system is a significant improvement over older detection technologies,” said Mads Paulin, vice president of R&D at MiR. “Our approach will reduce pick-and-place cycle times, deliver best-in-class pick accuracy and allow us to continuously deliver advanced, AI-based functionality and value to our customers.” Pallet jack interoperable with MiR deck…
Teradyne Robotics recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring new AI capabilities to automation applications. Teradyne is the parent company of collaborative robot arm provider Universal Robots (UR) and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). Last week, UR demonstrated an autonomous inspection system powered by NVIDIA Isaac cuMotion path planning at the GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California. MiR recently launched its new MiR1200 autonomous pallet jack, which harnesses AI pallet detection powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack and UR’s cuMotion demo are Teradyne’s two most recent examples…
Robot Era, a Beijing-based humanoid robot startup, announced that it will open-source its reinforcement learning (RL) framework Humanoid-Gym on GitHub. The move is intended to lower the threshold of developing RL algorithms for humanoid roboticists worldwide, providing them with a practical platform to build on to avoid “reinventing the wheels.” Reinforcement learning options on Robot Era robots Robot Era, according to the company, is one of the first players in the industry to showcase a humanoid robot's locomotion ability based on end-to-end reinforcement learning. Founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Robot Era…
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute recently announced that three consortium member projects were selected from over 100 proposals submitted to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge held earlier in 2024. The ARM Institute is a DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institute and a member of the Manufacturing USA Network. Providing resources for U.S. manufacturers that utilize advanced robotics and AI, the Institute connects more than 400 member organizations across industry, government and academia. OIB process took over a year before selection The OSD ManTech Program hosted representatives from five…
Franka Robotics recently announced the release of its Franka MATLAB Toolbox, an interface designed to integrate theory and application in robotics research. This toolbox provides researchers with all necessary control options and signals from the Franka Research 3 robot, and offers a comprehensive set of features, including MATLAB scripts, Simulink blocks and advanced demos. Direct integration, connections Researchers can use the integration provided by the Franka MATLAB Toolbox to connect Franka robots to MATLAB and Simulink, the programming suite and graphical block-diagram environment for Model-Based Design by MathWorks. This integration streamlines the development process, enabling researchers to bring their ideas…
Gather AI, a Pittsburgh-based maker of computer vision and AI-powered warehouse inventory monitoring offerings, recently announced a $17M Series A-1 led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners, Dundee Venture Capital, Expa and Bling Capital. The new funding provides a total of $34M raised to date and will be invested in scaling operations as Gather AI looks to further attract customers with its products. AI-software powered autonomous drones Today, companies combat low accuracy with cycle counting via barcode scanning. Still, these counts only partially represent inventory, and capacity constraints make it difficult for workers to survey the…
